Oh I see, could you please point to that system that

• it is free and not tie to any vendor
• easy to use to the point that my grandma could use it
• properly tested by an active q group
• with safe boundaries
• production ready
• total flexibility
• with a proper wizard / gui that is self explanatory, robust enough to make sure you don’t select contradicting options.

If such system exist perhaps I move my homelab, who knows…

I think you are missing the point how easy is to fuck things up in a console with truenas when trying to activate de duplication or making a backup VS the same thing in a user friendly, already tested private solution. Of course from the noob point of view.

Installing truenas when having no idea about almost anything is cumbersome, dealing with the millions options (some of them incompatible between them) is frustrating, cryptic error codes are discouraging…

You want people jump in? Then make it easy for them, lower the entry barrier, if not, you will find yourself alone in your ivory tower.

The exact same ia true for you synology NAS. + the limitations on how synology thinks you should do backups vs how it actually suits you.

If you already know how to setup a proper backup system, balancing the pros and cons, with a robust and solid way to avoid data loss, then you don’t qualify for noob.

If you don’t know any of that and still makes yiur backup system, that’s the recipe of the disaster and you have real probabilities of losing data with nay option to recover.

I see your point but in this world there is only 2 options, or you have the skills, the knowledge and the time to do it by yourself, or you need to outsource it.

Assuming that the op is a real noob it is clear that the 2 first prerequisites are missing making that option unacceptable, then you can only go to the buy something easy enough for the general public.

And in top of that, in a homelab, the most sacred thing is the data, not the service, the data. If you misconfigure a nas or the automated backup system it could lead into the worst scenario: the data is lost forever.

Weighting everything I still recommend what I did. Although if instead of synology you prefer ugreen or asustor… Well that’s depends of your taste

If you are a real and total noob try to get a synology, ugreen or another reputable brand of nas an start from there.

The point of having one of these is to avoid a big fuck up resulting in a data loss. An from there you will be able to Bild up what you need.

all the best in this journey

Seems like a very reasonable reason to switch to another isp well established in the 21st century

Fuck, there is a law in internet (which name I cannot recall) about the impossibility of distinguish an ironic message.

I felt in that trap completely!!

What a lot of nonsense. Of course the technology exists and of course it can be done. But in reality is not done because it simply doesn’t bring any benefit.

And in addition a address translation is not nat ™ because the server can be hit from the outside.

Today in ipv4 we have likely 2 Nats, 1 after your router and the other by the carrier (cgnat) and ipv6 those are non existent

Ipv6, get an ipv6. There is not nat in ipv6

Kasm, you only need kasm.

It is a docker engine with the streaming already incorporates. Try that.

It is true that it relies in wine, so perhaps you will need to experiment a bit and pin down a specific wine version. But if I recall correctly I saw an old version of ms office running in wine

It is about the quality. Pretty sure there is not a quality upgrade and then the format is not applied.

It is contra intuitive for the arr stack. What triggers the format is the quality and then the rest of parameters.

I find it annoying because you can not make a format that you prefer a 1080 HD movie in multilanguage over a 4k in just English…

Usually 2.5" hdd tends to be more silent. But they are definitely worse from a nas perspective and not so in the ratio €/gb.

The solution with non mechanical disks is by far the most silent, but prepare the wallet and probably a kidney too.

Honestly, every hw that is not going automatically into a power save mode when not used is utterly crap, even my home grade switches are able to do so.

So, the only thing you need to do is to buy recent hw and of course not over size your hw necessities. But recent hw tends to be more expensive, so in the end, it is an excel driven decission.

And once this is said, be careful, some hw suffer more for a on/off cycle than from a continuous power on mode. Think in hdd power cycles or condensation/ salt-rust problems in high humidity areas.

Still it is not clear to me how the internal reverse proxy may get a valid certificate when the domain name is pointing to the vps. Do you copy later manually to the internal proxy?

And if so, how do you overcome the invalid certificate warning when you are accessing your services locally?

Question, how do you deal with the certificates if you have an external vps doing passthroy?

Because that certificate will not match the domain name of the vps and then everything will fail or at least trigger a lot of alerts.

I really fail to see how an internal backend in a different subnet can send the right certificate

Ey! congrats for the donation. I hope your personal project succeeds!

This could be funny if you have a d event computer, specially for od games

https://games-on-whales.github.io/

If you are interested in the photo storage then start… With the storage.

So pick up a nas or something similar, pay a bit more for the super intuitive fancy gui product and the start from there.

Learn what is nas and how to connect to a pc Thne learn how to do the same with your smartphone Then learn a bit about networking Then… Continuous for the hardest itch and try to Scratch it

And if you need support, come back here, check videos and web pages or even chatgpt, for the basic stuff is quite acceptable

Ehmmmm I still don’t grasp what you mean.

In any case, mandos has a possibility to do it automatically via rsa encryption, so you have the possibility of totally unattended restart.

Because the server is (ideally) in a different location, if one of yiur systems is stolen / compromised then you only delete / revoked the certificates ID and then that machine would not be able to decrypt its own luks system.

I never deployed this system on my own, but I know a few guys who did it

Regards

I am afraid I don’t get the question.

What do you exactly mean?

Chech here, I think is a more sensible way of doing things https://www.recompile.se/mandos