After months of procrastination, today I finally took the time to set up an instance of Panoramax in my homelab. The setup was very smooth. Actually, I had booked the full day for it, and by 12PM the instance was publicly available.
At the moment, I'm not accepting contributions (pictures) since I want to make sure everything is running fine before opening to the public.
Kudos to @panoramax for this amazing project!
@strongthany @panoramax it's too early for me to say, but I suspect in my setup the disk will be the first bottleneck to encounter. Last weekend I took 5000+ pictures in ~3h, and that used 16GB of disk space. My multipurpose homelab has just 2TB of total space right now.
I still have to upload them to the server, which will have to store a version with faces and car plates blurred. Not sure if the original picture remains in the server after blurring, or of it's removed.
Still, go for it!
@bustikiller @strongthany With #Panoramax, raw unblurred uploaded pictures are destroyed after blurring by default (GDPR).
2TB of storage allows 300k+ GoPro Max 360° pictures (with their derivates)
High storage is not required to start, it is a long term issue.
@osm_fr instance started with a bunch of 3TB used HDD, then added some more, then replaced them with 8TB and 16TB when good deals were found on ebay with a current total of 400TB.
The storage bay has 60 LFF trays, and ZFS is used to manage all this, provide redundancy and remote backups.
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