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These daily backups from Proxmox's backup server may have saved my data.

When the mysql container is running, data is written to the filesystem. If I set this up properly, this would be on a persistent volume, so that it persists across restarts/shutdowns/etc.

In my case, because computers will do what you tell them to, the mysql data ends up being written locally to the k8s worker node. This lives in the dir /var/lib/containerd/io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri/containers/<random-id>/volumes/<lvm-label>/var/lib/mysql/.

Before I found that path, I figured the data had to live somewhere, and Linux can get pretty creative with mount paths, so I went looking. Based on binary text searches with xxd, and finding references to lomo soltado, I've found it. Other recipes also seem to be in there that I know I had stored.

Recovering the data from the files will be an exercise for tomorrow. But I feel a lot better about it now.

#homelab #pebkac #kubernetes #oops #selfhosting #bookstack #testyourbackups

We stuck Minecraft on a kubernetes cluster running on 4 Raspberry Pis in a 3D-Printed case, and then observed it with #opensource.

Why did we do this? Not important: jump to 1:31 to see the Pis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojAzsyucJqE

#Coroot #Minecraft #homelab #kubernetes #Linux #foss #observability

The early stages of SolarAI-V2 local LLM server in assembly.

The 4x TESLA P100 GPUs arrive tomorrow, along with a mining rack and other stuff. This is what the hardware stack is looking like so far:

-Asus Z9PE-D16 motherboard
-CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2 Processor
-GPU: FOUR NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB PCIe (64GB VRAM)
-RAM: 128GB DDR3
-Storage: 64GB SSD for OS
-Storage: FOUR 500GB WD Velociraptor HDDs for models
-OS: ubuntu 26.04 server amd64

It will run my Hermes/Home Assistant, and is not used to generate slop.

#AI #homelab #homeassistant #llm #hermesagent #selfhosted #selfhosting

I'm getting increasily tempted by selling my entire #homelab because of these ridiculous prices. They're probably worth at least 3x what I paid for with the amount of RAM and storage on it. Buy low, sell high, right? lol

Nouvelle note Obisidian créée pour y noter tous les idées de modding que j'ai envie de vous proposer sur la chaîne. On va commencer par le domaine de la Domotique, il faut que je regarde cela ce week-end pour vous proposer un nouveau petit projet qui devrait vous permettre de recycler d'anciens appareils Amazon.
Je n'en dis pas plus sur le sujet.
#Homelab #homeautomation #modding

Hack the Backup

Von tar auf Band über rsync und rsnapshot bis zu Borg im Append-only-Modus: elf Stopps auf einer Straße, auf der jedes Werkzeug ein Problem löst und ein neues schafft. Und am Ende steht wieder der Bandschrank.

Jeder Admin hat diese Straße schon befahren, meist ohne Karte. Man startet mit einem Band und einem Befehl, man wi

https://www.behindtheconsole.com/2026/10/08/hack-the-backup/

#Projekt #SystemArchitektur #Workshop #Backup #borgbackup #homelab #security #BTC

oh boy
dank dem dass mein lokales qwen3.8 jetzt meinen pc untersuchen darf, verstehe ich auch diverse #linux konzepte und mechanismen besser

z.b. #wine - ich dachte immer das sei quasi ne windows installation und dass man dann ALLES win zeugs DA installieren muss 🙄
aber nö, das ist wie ein venv für python - man kann für jedes programm oder programm set eine eigene wine umgebung installieren (kost halt einfach space)

#LernenMitKI #KI #homelab

CasaOS on Zima promises one-click self-hosting. We treated it like any Debian box to see if the UI holds up or just gets in the way. https://www.valtersit.com/guides/zima/casaos-on-zima-a-gilded-cage-for-power-users/ #homelab #casaos #sysadmin

Woo! New #Immich release with upgraded face-recognition sharing getting very good reviews and feedback.

If you've been looking to get your photos off "the cloud" and onto a private, open source service that you host yourself, then now is a really good time. Face sharing has been a bit of a roadblock for a lot of people (especially families), but not any more!

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v3.3.0

#SelfHosted #Homelab #photography #DataSovereignty

I’ve also been meaning to setup and test a backup/restore process, so this is a good reminder I don’t have that now for my self hosted stuff.

I probably can piece things together now, but that’s not the same as having a tested backup process.

#homelab #kubernetes #learning #troubleshooting #selfhosted

Think I’m going to learn more about Kubernetes tonight. And not quite in a fun way: one of my containers, and only one so far, doesn’t seem like it retained its data after I took the rack down for maintenance yesterday.

All the systems were cleanly shutdown so the data should be intact, I just need to find it.

The new PVs are there, but empty, so I might need to see what PVs they *should* be pointing to.

#homelab #kubernetes #learning #troubleshooting #selfhosted

filex'i geliştiriyorum: kendi sunucunuza kurulan açık kaynak dosya yöneticisi, tek Go programı, MIT.

Yerel disk, S3, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV ve SMB'yi bağlıyor, dosyalar yerinde kalıyor; aynı ağaç S3, WebDAV, SFTP ve NFS ile açılıyor. Masaüstü eşitleme, OIDC/LDAP, MCP.

Yapay zekâ beyanı: Kararlar benim, kodun çoğunu Claude Code yazıyor, her değişiklik testten geçiyor; kontrolsüz üretilmiş kod değil. Bu gönderi yapay zekâ yardımlı.

https://github.com/BRF-Tech/filex

#SelfHosted #AçıkKaynak #HomeLab #GoLang

I build filex, a self-hosted file manager in one Go binary (MIT).

It connects local disks, S3, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SMB, leaves files in place, and serves the tree back over S3, WebDAV, SFTP and NFS. Desktop sync app, OIDC/LDAP, MCP server.

AI disclosure: I make the design calls, Claude Code writes most of the code, every change passes the test chain. AI-assisted, not unreviewed generated code. Post drafted with AI help.

https://github.com/BRF-Tech/filex

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #HomeLab #GoLang

Kubernetes now tracks when PVCs become unused. Game changer!!

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/09/21/kubernetes-v1-37-pvc-last-used-time/

#DevOps #k8s #learnk8s #cncf #100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfDevOps #kubernetes #technology #homelab

Buying refurbished hard drives from Amazon is a gamble that often puts your data at risk. Some sellers reset usage stats so an old drive looks brand new when you plug it in. I wrote a breakdown on why we avoid these listings and how to find reliable storage here: https://gwizit.com/go/r6w2eum

#TechTips #HardDrives #HomeLab

#ITGedöns
Einerseits schade, dass ich im neuen Zuhause kein Internet per Glasfaser mehr habe, andererseits bekomme ich im neuen Zuhause bei VDSL eine dynamische IPv4 und habe kein CGNAT wie bei Glasfaser. Endlich DynDNS für den Zugriff aufs #homelab nutzen zu können, ist schon super.

#ITGedöns
Einerseits schade, dass ich im neuen Zuhause kein Internet per Glasfaser mehr habe, andererseits bekomme ich im neuen Zuhause bei VDSL eine dynamische IPv4 und habe kein CGNAT wie bei Glasfaser. Endlich DynDNS für den Zugriff aufs #homelab nutzen zu können, ist schon super.

Still thinking about if I want to mount a flatbad scanner flat against the wall (potentially on a 90 degree rotatable thingy)

or if I'll just hate myself for doing it...

#HomeLab #Scanner #diy

Today, I finally managed to get my VoIP phone set up on the network and talking to my mobile ☎️ ! The most challenging part was that the phone is actually so old that I can't even update the firmware—the file is over 1.5 KB! So, the phone uses the MGCP protocol to communicate with the Asterisk server, while my mobile uses SIP. We way almost qualify it as my first retrocomputing experience!

Thanks @h3rb3rn for your article: https://4noobs.de/viewtopic.php?t=41 !
#voip #mgcp #homelab #asterisk #retrocomputing

I've had BookStack running publicly for 5 years, the longest of any app I self-host. Time for a fresh look: a tour, an intro from developer Dan Brown, and a Docker Compose install with SMTP. #selfhosting #homelab #wiki

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/NxHRE4YNhWg

Dear Diary (Homelab edition)

https://www.wolfandraven.blog/2026/10/dear-diary-homelab-edition/

Officially kicked off my annual self-host user survey this morning, which consists of 45 questions across several topics (including a new section on AI!).

Last year's survey received over 4,000 responses - the goal is to hit 5k this year!

https://selfh.st/survey/2026-open/

#selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #opensource #foss #homelab #survey #privacy #fediverse #mastodon #server #sysadmin #devops #ai #cloud #smarthome #git #hardware #software #app #apps #docker #database #streaming

Stop browsing naked. Run Kali and isolated browsers on the new ZimaBoard 2 with Kasm - no lag. Full setup guide: https://www.valtersit.com/guides/zima/zimaboard-2-kasm/ #homelab #linux #cybersecurity

7 Sep 2026

I took advantage of a cool day to install a WiFi AP on the front of the house to provide coverage to the front yard. As I’ve been up in the attic a bunch, it was not much trouble to run the cable.

I also took some time to clean up the patch panel which had become a bit of a spaghetti mess over time. Unfortunately, there is still one cable run that had a problem, so I still need to troubleshoot that, but the rest of them were good!

Garrett and Randal being goobers in the kitchen!

Saryia and Rosalina are on clean up duty in the weed patch!

As it was a Monday, we also had all the usual fun with Music Lessons and Scouts!

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Mon aventure Homelab 1 an après

https://videos.stackgui.de/w/42zmxCfzqs1NEr4P2B6Rd1

📢 New #updates · 7 Oct #8

· PhotoPrism 261007-65faaae5d — AI features now more accurate and GPU-accelerated
· Langfuse v4.54.0 — Added topic classification and external media storage
· lightdash 2.452.0 — Thumbnails now auto-capture for all data app versions

Browse everything at https://selfhost.directory

#homelab #backup #ai #sync

Yesterday was the biggest update day I ever did

4 major K3S versions
3 major longhorn versions
1 major Argo version
12 major cert manager versions
And 4 major nginx-ingress versions
Plus a couple others spread around

And the best ? Nothing broke ! Each service had to be manually restarted to let longhorn volumes update themselves, but that was it

Now I have to look into migrating away from nginx-ingress, most likely to Envoy gateway but that’s going to be some work…

#halis #homelab #selfhosting #update #k8s #k3s #argocd #nginx #envoy #longhorn #selfhosted #selfhost

📚🔧 Oh, joy! Another thrilling tale of a tech bro's wallet gym session disguised as a 'homelab upgrade'. Spoiler alert: it's mostly about the crippling quest for more #blinky #lights and #bragging #rights. 😂💸
https://www.joekarlsson.com/blog/homelab-two-years-later/ #techbro #humor #walletgym #homelab #upgrade #HackerNews #ngated

My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost

https://www.joekarlsson.com/blog/homelab-two-years-later/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965959

#HackerNews #Homelab #Tech #Upgrade #Costs #DIY #Networking

If you have a #homelab with storage, even if it's a #raspberrypi, the coolest, most useful thing u can self-host is prolly an #S3 storage server - of any kind, but the one i've been happily using is #seaweedfs (since #minio is dead).

already started using it for various things, projects. also using it as my backup solution now via #kopia. might drop #borg/#vorta - tho they're really nice too, just wish they cld hook up to s3 storage as well.

So now I need to move my #homelab. And I have two options:

1. Migrate #Mastodon reverse proxy from #nginx to #caddy (no documentation on this around the internet except uncertain assumptions).
2. Pay x4 for the internet for a business plan, where I’ll be able to rent more than one static IP.

So the question is do you, dear #mastoadmin, have a working example of Caddy config for Mastodon?

#SelfHosted #selfhost #selfhosting #AskFedi #homeserver

sry wenn ich euch mit dem ganzen #KI und #homelab zeugs nerve aber ihr könnt euch gar nicht vorstellen was das für ne erleichterung ist!
besonders weil ich keine cloud modelle benutzen muss für die ich eh kein geld habe um sie sinnvoll zu nutzen

all die stunden, tage, wochen die man mit 20+ offenen tabs und config dateien und logs redacten verschwendet hat um irgend ein scheiss problem zu lösen dass dann mit nem einzeiler gelöst wird - vergangenheit
ich sag meinem qwen3.8 einfach "hier ist das problem, such mal nach ursachen und lösungen" - dann werkelt es mal und ich kann in der zwischenzeit endlich mal die haushaltstask abarbeiten - ich kann ja nicht gleichzeitig die küche putzen und stackoverflow lesen

Der nächste FamilyAdminDay, aka der zweite Weihnachtstag, steht ja vor der Tür – zumindest gefühlt. Damit das Essen dieses Jahr nicht kalt wird, gibt’s in der Vorweihnachtszeit Remote Desktop à la Homelab: Eine Support-Homepage, einen eigenen RustDesk-Server im Homelab und einen Fork des Clients, der sich nur mit meinem Server verbinden kann.

#Homelab #RustDesk #opensource #weihnachten #overkill

I really *need* to find a new way of storing “secrets”, like short secure notes, etc.

`MUST`:
- macOS client
- reasonable GUI
- text and images (eg: TOTP QR-Codes)
- multiple independent containers for mutually exclusive projects
- OFFLINE capable (even for adding new items)

`SHALL`
- OpenSource
- fast

Would `LIKE`:
- Synchronisation via self-hosted backend (WebDAV, separate server)
- iOS Client

`MAY`:
- CLI
- cost €

Personal experience, and suggestions welcome!
#HomeLab #Passwords #Notes

Some people receiving this toot might be surprised. Yes, at some point you did make the decision to follow me. 😉 But at some point between then and now, my instance decided that yours was down. I just went through the list of such instances, and restarted delivery on those which were actually still online.

So a tip: Occasionally go through the list of "Unavailable" instances in the federation list and check whether they're really gone.

#HomeLab #MastoAdmin

I needed monitoring and graphs for the few servers I run, so I installed Beszel and I couldn't be happier.

Very easy to set up, not as heavy and AI infested as Grafana or Netdata, and looks clean.

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel #beszel #monitoring #homelab

I will be attending KubeCon next month. This will be my first tech conference ever. Excited is an understatement!

#DevOps #k8s #learnk8s #cncf #100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfDevOps #kubernetes #technology #homelab

Stop letting your ZimaBoard sit in a drawer. Push its Celeron N3450 to the limit with Proxmox VM density, PCIe storage, and tuned WireGuard VPN performance. #Homelab #Proxmox #Linux

https://www.valtersit.com/guides/zima/zimaboard-as-a-home-server-n3450-pushed-to-its-limits/

Question for those of you that use ansible for deploying/maintaining infrastructure in your labs/prods:

How did you take a manually-configured environment and migrate to ansible?
Did you reversed engineer your existing stack, or build out new using your own generated code (or other people's) and just migrate data?

#ansible #selfhosting #sysadmin #homelab

Hallo Fediverse, ich bin Christoph – seit Kurzem auf social.tchncs.de, vorher linuxrocks.online.

Textarbeiter bei TUXEDO Computers, davor war ich bei LinuxUser und Raspberry Pi Geek. Seit 2006 blogge ich auf linuxundich.de über Linux. Gerade bastle ich an eigenen GNOME-Apps (Gnomos, Blocksatz, Pulsgeber), an meinem Homelab-Server und an lokaler KI. Ist der Rechner aus, sitze ich auf dem Rennrad in Oberschwaben.

Hier gibt's Werkstattnotizen, Fundstücke und ab und zu Landschaft. Die Artikel laufen über @linuxundich.

#Vorstellung #NeuHier #Linux #GNOME #Homelab

das wiki mit der kompletten übersicht über meine infrastruktur steht 😎

2 tage für was mein ADHS-gehirn in 5 jahren nicht geschaft hat
nicht nur dass ich nicht gewusst hätte wie ich es strukturieren soll (oder mich auf halben weg wieder umentschieden hätte), einige infos hätte ich schlicht nicht gefunden oder übersehen

ich hätte das übrigens nicht gemacht wenn ich kein lokales modell hätte dafür verwenden können - dafür sind mir dann die daten zu privat/sensibel
#KI #homelab #adhs

I've had BookStack running publicly for 5 years, the longest of any app I self-host. Time for a fresh look: a tour, an intro from developer Dan Brown, and a Docker Compose install with SMTP. #selfhosting #homelab #wiki

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/NxHRE4YNhWg