Batch mode is great! I didn’t realize it was added until just now hah

https://github.com/kd2org/karadav

Nextcloud client/app compatible WebDAV server with a lightweight file browser webUI, and multi-user support.

Should be the closest thing to Google Drive without actually running Nextcloud.

The only issue is it looks like the Nextcloud iOS clients don’t work.

It’s pretty easy, you can browse files in an LXC backup and restore specific parts. For VMs you can just restore the whole VM and copy out what you need.

I back up all the directories and docker-compose files using Restic (via Backrest) stored on Backblaze B2, and also the whole Docker LXC via Proxmox’s backup function to a local HDD.

There’s a chance some databases could be backed up in an unusable state, but I keep like 30-50 snapshots going back months, so I figure if the latest one has a bad DB backup, I could go back another day and try that one.

I also don’t really have irreplaceable data stored in DBs, stuff like Immich has data in a DB that would be annoying to lose, but the photos themselves are just on the filesystem.

For testing Restic I pull a backup and just go through and check some of the important files.

Proxmox backup is really easy to test, as it just restores the whole LXC with a new ID and IP that I can check.

I’ve always liked Fedora or its various derivatives like Bazzite. They seem to have defaults that make sense, and fairly up to date software.

I also find dnf on Fedora to be a bit nicer and more streamlined compared to apt, and I’ve heard it’s significantly easier to package software for dnf as well.

Yep, without a restart anything running will be the old version until the process is restarted (or the whole system is).

You’ll also probably want to do a flatpak update along with dnf upgrade

NP! That’s how I do it on proxmox, I’ll start the VM every so often and update it. Only takes a few seconds to clone so it’s nice and quick to do.

Simple method is just keep a ready to go VM and clone it.

That is fair, I suppose being able to click and run stuff like Appimages has less security issues because in theory they are isolated? But don’t the appimages get to decide their own permissions?

I really don’t understand why it’s not more streamlined, it should work like an exe where I just click it and it installs and handles dependencies automatically.

Pinchflat is what I use.

You can either:

A) Use a different port, just set up the new service to run on a port that’s not used by the other service.

B) If it’s a TCP service use a reverse proxy and a subdomain.

It’s just a YAML thing, if you do FILEBROWSER_CONFIG:"/config/config.yaml" instead it might work with quotes.

It’s interesting because you’re not the first person to complain about getting ISOs in Proxmox, but on my instance if I click on my local storage it has an upload ISO button, and a download ISO from URL button right there, so it’s really simple.

It can also mount network storage with existing ISOs and just pull from that.

I don’t use ISOs very often though, either a Debian 12 container template, or a custom Debian 12 cloud-init VM I made and backed up, so I can just hit restore and it gives me a fresh VM with new networking config and everything through cloud-init automatically.

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Matrix isn’t going freemium, the matrix.org server is to pay for all the hosting costs. But there are tons of other servers to choose from.

I’m a techy person with my own home server and lots of self hosted services, and I’m still not sure how to set up XMPP and figure out which servers and which clients all support which features, and which of the various encryption methods to pick from.

Matrix was easier to set up and I ran one for awhile, because at least it’s not as crazy fragmented.

Generally they’ll know them as texting and email, they don’t know the names of the protocols underneath.

Is it all automated with versioning intervals and stuff? Or is restic required as a third party step and maintaining a duplicate of data on the server for it to grab?

Overall it sounds like a decent VM manager but is meant for enterprise stuff where they’ll be building their own backup systems.

That’s what proxmox has too, but snapshots aren’t backups and aren’t being sent to a remote backup server… You’re also not supposed to keep snapshots around for very long, whereas I have backups going back several months.

Or are you sending snapshots to a remote server? I think ZFS can do that, so maybe that’s an option I can look at.

This looks interesting, how do you handle automated backups of all the VMs/Containers? Their docs kind of seem to say “stop everything and figure it out”, but with Proxmox I’m used to it handling everything automatically to my PBS server every night.