Ok back again after doing a week of research and am very thankful for your help, now have a question about it:
For this encryption, I need the HDD to only be decryptable with a password that only I have, right? Like thats the end goal? So even if someone gets it or ssh into the server on my friend’s side, its an encrypted system? Does thay mean each update also has to be a complete wipe and re-backup??? Or are there systems which can just add the new data by knowing the encryption key?
Jesus I typed a lot. Sorry, I dont want to take advantage of a stranger, but your messages are just so useful right now to me so I’m like enamored hahahaa
Hey I wanted to profusely thank you for your help. It was genuinely amazing help… im still learning just from reading your comments, looking up a term, and then coming back after a rabbit hole. But Im practicing proxmox on 15 year old laptop right now before implementing it on the pc.
I ended up getting a 2nd pc, but am looking now into dual booting my gaming pc with Ubuntu to do some tasks that only need to happen every once in a while. But i dont really understand clustering all that well nor how I would integrate it with my proxmox main server box… like to do backups on my gaming pc once a week and have thay backup go once a month to my friend’s or something using that gaming pc… is that sensible or nonsense?? I just imagine it having a different psu in a 2nd computer as some layer of redundancy? Is that right?
My plan is to use the free tier of corporate clouds for like the most recent month of photos so that theres a 3rd save location until I like monthly do a backup to my friend’s, have a permanent HDD with data every year or so (so like a 500gb cheap one) that I then store at my parents’, and using proxmox ZFS on my important data with 3 hdds. This is expensive, but I saved so much on the hardware due to all of your (plural, the whole thread was amazing) advice.
But that all being said, can I come back to you every once in a while to bounce an idea off to hear if I’m still being logical? Im so scared of losing precious photos.
Like, a question i can’t wrap my head around now: I want proxmox to handle my ZFS, but immich to also have thumbnails on an SSD. Should thay ssd be separate from the one which promox is on? And what about the one that has the cache of new data (to not have the hdds always on but only once a threshold is met?)
Thanks for your help, I ended up getting 2nd hand ones from old enterprise refurbishers. They were soooooo much cheaper lol
I did this. Thanks for your advice. It helped me a lot
Hey im back now that im much further, but what does your full arr stack look like? I think im getting caught up on terminology but I feel like im missing pieces to make it work
Thanks for this, again. I ended up, because of this, looking into a pc chassis motherboard and pau combo that will power my shit and idle better. Didnt even know about that until you mentioned it
Back just to thank you, I bought a bunch of stuff, but you set me on the right track. I just got an old enterprise pc and am gonna put some parts from my one in it and add HDDs. Without your advice I would’ve accidentally gotten like a NAS and a computer which was ridiculously redundant and expensive. But your knowledge piece probably saved me 500 bucks. Thanks so much
2 extras. Europe is fucking expensive and the used market is shit. It’s impossible to find used hardware thats not at like 85% new price
Damn I care about the data but with 4tb hdds thats like 1000 bucks instead of 700… which I already can barely afford
Im not American, so this all sounds like Greek to me lol. As you can see by the name, im in the Netherlands, and here this used/cheap market is non-existent lol. People resell things at like 90% of new price around here.
Waa a useful video! Im not American so that store was absurd to me lol. But the rest was cool and useful to consider
Ok I read a bunch more on this, but am left with one really technical question. I am now leaning towards making my pc double as my server because it already meets most requirements and would save me a lot of money.
But if I do it via proxmox, I can’t see a way I could still use the pc for any gaming without turning off the proxmox servers. I could do an Ubuntu or windows VM within proxmox, but from what I know, games will not run well on VMs, so it would require a dual boot setup with separate drives… meaning my server turns off to turn on games.
Am I correct in my conundrum?
Holy shit thats a lot of layers and im not following entirely… but I think I need to figure it out myself a bit. So ProxMox is just the base OS and I could install Ubuntu within Proxmox on a VM, but all my server shit is just within proxmox but not within the Ubuntu VM… I didnt understand Proxmox at all before this, turns out
Wait I figured it out, according to the specs I have 3 SATA ports that work and one that is an eSATA. I can’t exactly figure out if I have any USB3.0 ports to determine whether I would be better with a eSATA DAS or a USB3.0 DAS for the extra hard drives… the ports are all black. My device manager says its got USB3.0 but I can’t figure out which that is lol
Is it not possible to run proxmox on Ubuntu? Or did you set all this up in just ubuntu to where it must be completely translated to proxmox?
Ok I just realized idk how exactly to know for sure how many SATA ports I have… I think 4? Can you look at these pics and tell me I’m not missing something? I see 5 places to mount things, but 1 is currently a disc drive (pretty sure I should replace that with an HDD), but only 4 places on the motherboard. Is that right?
Wait posting pics isnt working
I’ll try like this https://imgur.com/a/XMXpYX7
Oh damn, you’ve been at it for a while. Impressed!
So this means 3 drives for mirroring in my system and then still 1 at a different location to make sure it’s safe from fires if I want to avoid clouds… damn
Very similar to the dutch “frietje oorlog”, war french fries. Still probably the most popular way to eat French fries is dipped in this exact kind of sauce