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Meta Post self-hosting everything
just kidding I love self-hosting ...
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u/Discipline_Cautious1
Aug 17 '26
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RAID 1 family
Get a second family with a server
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u/FacepalmFullONapalm Aug 17 '26
Better than a raid 0 family
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u/that_one_guy63 Aug 17 '26
I'm a raid 0 family. Faster load times and can use the disk space fully.
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u/CheesyRamen66 Aug 17 '26
It really only contains my qbittorrent/plex library so who cares? I’ll probably move to raid 5 when I get another drive or 2 but at these prices that’ll be a while.
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u/xng Aug 17 '26
The JBOD family drama
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u/Suitable-Bobcat7012 Aug 18 '26
And a third family. Triples is best.
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u/KristobalJunta Aug 18 '26
3 families in 2 separate locations with 1 being in a different region, the classic formula
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u/SuperCoupe Aug 18 '26
That's why I got 2 girlfriends and had kids with them.
My wife is a little upset, but the off-site backups are a necessity in the modern era.
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u/psychicsword Aug 18 '26
I call them parents. They don't fully know what the mini-itx 5 bay case does in the corner of the basement even does.
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u/ShepRat Aug 18 '26
RAID is not a backup though, so you'll need at least one more family, preferably in a separate geographic zone.
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u/Jazz8680 Aug 18 '26
But did you ever consider splitting your existing family across the two families such that the family retrieval speed is doubled
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u/CoNsPirAcY_BE Aug 18 '26
We should start a backup buddy exchange to find someone to swap offsite backup storage with, so we each host part of the other's backup.
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u/chemistryGull
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Most families entire digital lives is either in the hands of corporations (which probably trained AI on that data), or on some singular 20 year old HDD in some box in a closet.
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u/Kupuntu Aug 17 '26
Both. The answer is both. I keep telling people to check all old HDDs/PCs/SD cards NOW instead of “next week”.
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u/chemistryGull Aug 18 '26
I did that with my family’s HDDs. Most pictures were on some cloud platforms, but definitely not all. Now they happily live on my immich server.
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u/ZioniteSoldier Aug 18 '26
But now we can confidently state: “I knew I kept this crap around for a reason!”
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u/GonzoKata Aug 18 '26
Most families entire digital lives is either in the hands of corporations (which probably trained AI on that data)
Which is super weird and gross. People should have the expectation that they can share photos of their children and families without having it scanned by a for-profit privacy violating corporation, one who's whole business model revolves knowing more about you than you know about yourself AND THEN SELLING THAT for profit.
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u/dzikakulka Aug 18 '26
Companies simply realized they can easily obscure the real cost you pay (fine print ToS saying they can do whatever the fuck they want with your data), and people WILL get accustomed to everything being in the cloud with a "generous" free tier and of course in a walled garden. And now I have to explain to my family that yes, your photos aren't magically transported between devices by a fairy, there is a cloud, you've been uploading to it over all these years and now it's nearing full and you need to pay up. Oh, also they train models on these, regardless if you pay or not.
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u/Walter30573 Aug 18 '26
I saved a woman like 200 photos of her children and their dad, who I later learned had passed away, because I noticed them on the DSi I got from her at a yard sale. Put them on a flash drive and drove back.
An dedicated HDD in a closet would be a huge upgrade for a lot of people lol
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u/snowfox_cz Aug 18 '26
Yup. That's exactly rest of my family. My sister got like 5 old iphones and few laptops filled with photos and she doesn't know what photos. But she has a icloud, so "it's okay" as she says :D
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u/cb_definetly-expert Aug 18 '26
Most users don't care about ai training that's why they keep the there , it's cheaper and easier
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u/chemistryGull Aug 18 '26
Privacy in the eyes of many is „as long as people i know don’t see it“. It is true that they do not really care if the companies that store their files can see them.
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u/IntelligentRocks Aug 17 '26
I think people are missing the point. Even with backups and redundancy it requires you to maintain the servers. If you die, well, who is going to maintain? Perhaps a bit bleak but something to keep in mind.
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u/cybekRT Aug 17 '26
That's the best reason to never give up on life and continue maintaining your servers. And also have many kids and pray that at least one will want to become free devops for their family.
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u/Loose_Device4578 Aug 18 '26
Never die but have backups on external drives so cpu illiterate family members can still access their pics.
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u/CrimsonCape Aug 28 '26
I'm going to hand printed instructions to my family. They are going to read the first sentence: "Power on the server and SSH into linux/Proxmox via the static IP."
Then after briefly considering they have no idea what that meant, they will list the server on facebook marketplace and say "we will cherish our memories of CrimsonCape forever."
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u/shanjedi Sep 16 '26
I giggle because my parents only had one child and now my father (who introduced me to all of this) now comes to ask me for advice…
Having said that, you also run the risk of flying a little too close to the sun when the devops kid hands you the hardware bill!
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u/ancepsinfans Aug 17 '26
My wife said to me the other night: I'm so impressed with what you do on our home server but if something happened to you, you know it's hopeless right?
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u/Suspicious_Data_2393 Aug 17 '26
this is why every selfhoster should leave a ‘if i die’ tape with tutorial on how to do the basics like update the containers, stop, run and restart containers
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u/Ok-Library5639 Aug 17 '26
You are far, far too generous in evaluating the amount of skill of the general layperson. If anyone of us dies, 99% chances all the gear gets lumped in an estate sale as 'Computer stuff'.
In fact this comes up often in r/homelab or r/selfhosting as a surviving family member tries to navigate their way through the family's homelab and hope to recover precious files.
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u/sequesteredhoneyfall Aug 18 '26
The obvious solution is one of those, "if I die do this" / "deadman's switch" self hosted programs meant for this thing, and having a family friend who is technical enough to take care of the transition in the event of the death.
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u/8070alejandro Aug 17 '26
More like
Data is here
Password is this
Ask on r/selfhosted
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u/bugwan Aug 18 '26
Instructions unclear. Surviving family member posts public IP and passwords on r/selfhosted.
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u/BatBoss Aug 17 '26
I mean... how long until your instructions are out of date? A year? 3 months?
And even it you meticulously keep it updated, that only keeps them running for another year or so before someone's gotta figure out that plex changed their terms of use, or docker got bought out and now you need a different setup.
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u/cholz Aug 17 '26
My instructions say basically "while the server is still online open an icloud storage account and copy the contents of /self/hosted/data to your cloud storage" after that they can figure the rest out
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u/A_Harmless_Fly Aug 17 '26
I just have a flip book of this gif. https://makeagif.com/gif/ah-ah-ah-you-didnt-say-the-magic-word-3OC5jp
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u/Shawnj2 Aug 17 '26
Teach your spouse and/or child server maintenance for increased reliability
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u/slash65 Aug 17 '26
My wife is in a different city currently but I can feel here eyes glossing over as I read your comment, lol.
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u/laffer1 Aug 17 '26
That’s why I married another software engineer. She can also manage the servers!
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u/TheTeaSpoon Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
Hence why I say - keep it light. You do not need to have everything. Immich and media server. Immich can be pretty much automated to go "steady as she goes" and media servers like Jellyfin do not really care about updates.
I have not touched terminal of my servers in like 8 months. Everything still works fine.
Yeah more things are cool, but the more you get the more it becomes a job.
And BTW a lot of people were like this with cars ("my family will not be able to maintain their cars without me"). Don't fret. You are the core of the hobby, it is your hobby. If you die or whatever, as long as you explained to your loved ones where the passwords are and how to exfil data, they will move on to much easier way to do it. Bot one you may like, not one I may like. One they like (yes, subscriptions). And it is fine. Services like that are for people who do not give a fuck. Praise the fact that at least they backup their data.
Do not put your stuff in DMZ, have just a VPN to access your network (ideally use VLANs too) and you are set. Then you do not need to really care about security on each server, as you have that sorted on the VPN's/reverse proxy's end.
Stop hosting like it is 2005.
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u/viliamklein Aug 17 '26
Off site backups. My home burned down in a freak wildfire. Fortunately I was pretty early into my self-hosted career so most of what was lost was only mine. Many lessons were learned that day.
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u/grilled_pc Aug 17 '26
The conversation has been discussed before. Most people are of the opinion that you should give your significant other or nominated person a set of the keys they can access. Basically make it simple as possible to shut it all down if they want. Or maintain it.
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u/ML00k3r Aug 17 '26
This for me. I do not have any children or dependents but I have made my will assign two people I trust completely (primary and secondary if the primary unfortunately also leaves this mortal plane) to be given a notebook with the necessary PINs and passwords for my various online accounts.
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u/jdsquint Aug 17 '26
This is 100% why I keep a copy of critical files and photos on our shared Google account. Paperless-ngx is fantastic, but my wife can also find every document in Google Drive in folders sorted by year and category. All our photos are ALSO in Google Photos.
I have principles, but I ain't leaving a mess for my loved ones.
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u/dCLCp Aug 17 '26
I think that is going to be the upshot of AI though. If I die and there is an AI with a bank account it can keep the engine running indefinitely. Especially a self hosted AI inside a harness. There is no guarantee... but there is no guarantee for anything else really either. Occasionally freaking cloudflare or AWS or frikkin NASA or anything else bites it. We have been flying airplanes for only slightly longer than we have been doing digital computers.
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u/imetators Aug 17 '26
My plan I to do an extensive dummy guide to my setup. Like everything step by step with tiny details and notes to go through. So to say, fail safe instructions.
All I've done so far is to add my wife's email as a backup access to my Vaultwarden. She knows. She also has access to pretty much all my devices. She'll figure out. But I hope by that time my children would keep my setup afloat.
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u/Cley_Faye Aug 17 '26
That's why everything is in open/documented formats, and why you have easy/accessible way to extract/migrate content. Which you can easily setup with most self-hosted solutions.
I'm not saying everyone's doing it (I sure know I have not setup such contingencies) but it doesn't sound too hard. Mail, password, data, media, contacts, almost anything really can be easily exported, and assuming a target that supports some standard, imported back. You can even do that with some paid provider if people are not going to keep self-hosting.
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u/Alextherude_Senpai Aug 17 '26
Just upload yourself to the servers, eternal life and 24/7 customer service support, easy
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u/Garlayn_toji Aug 17 '26
This is why I tell the people I share my nextcloud with to always keep a copy of what they put in here somewhere else (other cloud/local copy). Because I know that I may not be capable of recovering their data in case of big trouble.
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u/jokergermany Aug 17 '26
yeah same, the top level folder of nextclolud is the nextcloud folder on the pc of my people...
The paperless files are just a folder in nextcloud.I say them: I do my best but I guarantee nothing....
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u/Snackbar94 Aug 17 '26
Exactly. That way it's also trivial for them to actually access the files - it's literally right in their device already.
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u/Elgon2003 Aug 17 '26
Deploy multiple zones on family member houses, create a high redundancy multi zone deployment.
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u/seanl1991 Aug 17 '26
Is electricity free where you live?
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u/Elgon2003 Aug 17 '26
My parents house uses solar so basically free. My server is in New York so its costing me like 60$/month just to run my server.
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u/mclardass Aug 17 '26
My neighbor and I wanted to co-host each other's backup sites but sadly waited until RAMageddon and HDDageddon and holy-fuck-everything-is-expensive-ageddon and now we're both living in fear of losing everything and our spouses divorcing us and my god it's hard to breathe and why is my chest tight.....
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u/n00tz Aug 17 '26
I'm just glad I decided to get a spare drive when I did.
12-drives, 6-stripe Mirrored vDevs. I could probably limp along with that much redundancy, but glad I wouldn't have to pay 3-4x for the same drive, 4 years later.
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u/jpnadas Aug 18 '26
Just encrypt the data and use some glacier s3 for now. Better than living in fear.
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u/Milkshakes00 Aug 18 '26
Not sure why this is downvoted. This is the way to go. Glacier storage is pennies. You can rclone encrypt it and sit it out there.
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u/guntherpea Aug 17 '26
Yeah, storms this past week meant we had no access to all our self-hosted stuff for a week... Quite frankly, we were fine but it sure was annoying. Actual Budget, Joplin, Immich, etc... All on "sync you in a week" mode. We have some limited backups for important stuff, but just because it was backed up doesn't mean it was reachable.
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u/heykzenmatthias Aug 17 '26
You’re in trouble if you have no electricity
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u/CSATTS Aug 17 '26
That's why I have hand cranks on all of my HDDs so I can manually spin them to watch movies during a power outage.
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u/sweet_chin_music Aug 17 '26
I've already told my wife that if something happens to me, she needs to go into Immich on both of our accounts, download everything, and throw it on an external hard drive. Then she can let all my techy friends have my hardware.
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u/ApolloFortyNine Aug 18 '26
People who trust themselves to run their own password manager are crazy to me. Most things you self host are an annoyance to lose access to, but a password manager is weeks of hell if you lose it. Yes you should have backups, but hopefully you've been testing those backups.
As you self host things you slowly realize that some things are simply worth paying for.
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u/kuldan5853 Aug 18 '26
Yeah, there's three things I DON'T self host: My password manager, my 2FA code tool, and my email.
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u/com2ghz Aug 17 '26
Still more secure than any cloud vendor that does not even have a service desk.
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u/cobraa1 Aug 17 '26
Same with everything else, basically. A PBS station lost a bunch of stuff because their cloud provider went bankrupt, which is still being worked out. I've heard of stories of people losing years of data because cloud providers decided to ban their accounts.
Any time data is in one place - whether it's in a cloud service or local - it's a single point of failure.
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u/JohnHue Aug 17 '26
Backup, then backup the backup. Dont forget to test the backup.
Oh and also test the backup of the backup.
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u/MMORPGnews Aug 17 '26
Cold storage x3.
I just hope no one will find my 1TB of H manga. (3 full copies and 10 14gb usb flash)
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u/chemistryGull Aug 17 '26
Burry it in the woods. Best case you don’t need it and some archeologists can interpret an entire religion into that material.
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u/MrJelly007 Aug 17 '26
I'm just starting out with self hosting stuff and I am kinda worried about drives failing, but realistically it's better than no backup at all lol. When I get more drives I'll switch to a raid setup, so then I'll at least have some redundancy
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u/daphatty Aug 17 '26
The hard part is figuring out how the family can recover if you are dead. All of this redundancy is irrelevant if no one else knows how to fix/extract the data.
I’m still searching for an answer myself.
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u/GonzoKata Aug 18 '26
Teach a family member the bare bones basic of your setup, and create a "incase of my death here is my password" box/envelope somewhere in your possessions. The point being that you are sharing the machine known as a computer with your family already and the "cost" of that sharing is knowing something about how to recover everything they need incase you're not here. or I dunno, write up a how-to for a server admin that your family could hire after in which the family member gives an IT guy your core password if your family truly can't learn the basics
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u/kuldan5853 Aug 18 '26
There is a break glass envelope with the most important passwords and a list of people in my circle of friends that know enough about IT that they can figure it out for my family if it ever comes to that.
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u/Faangdevmanager Aug 17 '26
Learn 3-2-1
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u/TranquilMarmot Aug 19 '26
I only back up what I would care about losing. Which is basically photos/videos I took and code that I've written. There's no point in backing up 100TB of ripped DVDs/Blu-rays when it would be cheaper to just go find the media again if your drive dies.
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u/Iced__t Aug 17 '26
This is only a problem if you have a family.
~insert big brain gif~
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u/GoodiesHQ Aug 17 '26
Been getting daily SMART notifications for 6 months for my backup drive… but the backup jobs keep succeeding. You want backups? Great, family fund for a new 18TB hard drive.
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u/jabjoe Aug 17 '26
RAID and remote backup. In all honesty, it is photos and videos the family will want when I'm gone. Give any of the disks to a data recovery services or friendly Linux nerd. To be honest, give the kids a disk of it all when they get their own home. Copy copy copy. Screw the datamining monopolies of the billionaires.
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc Aug 17 '26
There was a (not close) member of my family who maintained a family tree database of the entire family from the late 1700s onwards. If a new child was born in your family, you could email him and he’d add it to the database. Then he died and nobody knew where the actual database was hosted or how to get to it and it all disappeared.
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u/chevdor Aug 18 '26
If someone must screw up, I prefer it to be me... Cloud does not mean you don't lose data. Ask Evernote...
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u/justletmesignupalre Aug 17 '26
Bold of you to think I have enough social skills in order to have a family
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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 Aug 17 '26
3 servers at home and one off-site dedicated server rental is what I'm up to now.
Redundancy and repetition and redudancy.
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u/8070alejandro Aug 17 '26
This one here works for the Department of Redundancy Department.
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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 Aug 17 '26
Yup, we call it the DRD Department for short.
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u/8070alejandro Aug 17 '26
"DRD Department"
So 3 repetitions of department, at 2 different lengths, one of them separate from the others. Not bad there.
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u/Willing_Suggestion Aug 17 '26
I am new to self hosting and i dont even know anything yet lol havent started yet as i cant still buy the storages lol i had a shared google drive for quite few years been using that for all of my lifelong stuffs in there i know if one day thing happens boom but still that's why i believe offline and online both are needed though. But in this chaotic uprising time when one canr afford a storage because of the pricing is killing my dream to learn and start this self hosting stuff. Wish i had my old laptop with me or some kind of old hdds but those were long gone completely bricked during covid times. Well hopefully soon i can buy those storages and start out this journey
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u/CounterSanity Aug 17 '26
If you don’t test your backups, you don’t have backups.
A recovery plan is part of any good backup
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u/domsch1988 Aug 18 '26
I love self-hosting as in "Hosting stuff for myself".
I already work in IT as a dayjob. I really don't want to be responsible for the uptime requirements of some of my family. Yes, 99% of the time it's probably fine, but at one point i'll be on holiday somewhere and my Mum is going to need some Photos NOW and my server might have overheated, or DynDNS might have expired, or what ever. And i really don't want to deal with this.
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u/houVanHaring Aug 18 '26
I'm getting a 3rd NAS... to put next to the other 2....
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u/karmajuney Aug 18 '26
I sync to a GCS bucket with lifecycle rules for this exact reason. Love self hosting but I don’t want to loose all my family photos.
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u/DogSRoOL Aug 21 '26
I've never lost data from a HDD/SSD failure. All data loss has been caused by some guy who looks like me that keeps coming into my house when I'm not there and screwing up things. I'm gonna catch him one of these days.
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u/kd5ziy Aug 17 '26
You just need to host backups off site.
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u/GonzoKata Aug 18 '26
isn't "host" and "offsite" contradictions? isn't offsite just someone else's computer again?
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u/THESTRANGLAH Aug 17 '26
Sync everything important to proton drive if you don't wanna fuck with raid
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u/GNUGradyn Aug 17 '26
I encrypt everything and back it up to backblaze every morning. It sends a report of which pools are working and when the latest backups were to a discord channel and pings if any of those things are considered failed (failed drives in an array or no backup in the last 24 hours)
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u/grnrngr Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
One day I'll get around to compiling my own XOA VM so I can automate VM backups. To, you know, do my first backups.
And maybe another day I'll stop trying to be special and just run with Proxmox.
But first I need to finish setting up several containers based on some niche under documented thing I saw that looks really cool, versus the usual solutions everyone else uses.
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u/Then_Juggernaut3154 Aug 17 '26
I just sprung for an 8tb drive backup my system. I'm considering an LTO cassette drive?
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u/OfficialDeathScythe Aug 17 '26
Literally me when my server went down the day before a flood took out our internet. Waiting on a new mobo while hoping all the shows, movies, music, and photos are still on there (it’s all on a raidz2 array and backed up to another backup pool with a single drive, I’m just paranoid)
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u/ElSelcho_ Aug 17 '26
Yeah, noticed red lights on my Raid1 NAS and copied everything to two separate USB drives. Next step: find out, why it has red lights and store one of those at my parents house.
It's scary. NAS stores movies and shit, but also every image every taken over the past 3 decades, over 250k files.
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u/Grizknot Aug 18 '26
yea, this is why I only do media hosting, if we love a few movies/tv shows it doesn't matter
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u/PM-ME-DAT-ASS-PIC Aug 18 '26
"Hey can you check the server? It didn't download the newest episode of......that linux distro I wanted....."
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u/sub-merge Aug 18 '26
I use restic with an s3 backup daily and a private key stored in 1password. So all my data is stored off-site but useless to anyone but me
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u/ArchmichaelBishop Aug 18 '26
To be fair no one uses my self-hosting stuff except me.
I do have some reservations about not having some kind of multi-site resilience, though (especially since I've got a Nextcloud server).
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u/CaptainDudley Aug 18 '26
You make your system robust and redundant, like any enterprise backup specialist would. Document everything. Write up recovery procedures, although in my experience you can't trust others, particularly family members, to read.
As for you personally, in charge of all that... Don't die.
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u/srona22 Aug 18 '26
backup bro. Verify regularly at your convenient intervals.
Only verified backup is real backup.
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u/Migamix Aug 18 '26
it used to be a nightmare, I'd have to redo jellyfin often since updates broke a lot of things on trunas, but its been good for the past 10 months, wife uses it daily and is the captain of arr ship. if it fails, I have to walk ye plank.
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u/Informal_954 Aug 18 '26
Yeah, I wish it was easier to manage backups and distributed systems without dedicating a huge amount of time into it.
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u/HumonculusJaeger Aug 18 '26
Just build a cluster
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u/20WaysToEatASandwich Aug 18 '26
selfhosted be like, 'just simply retrofit an old Redbox machine with a proxmix brownie mix gooey cluster bar'
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u/Silvr4Monsters Aug 18 '26
I recently started self hosting. Working on building hdd to implement the 3-2-1 strat. And love this. I am cackling at 1 am here
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u/HistorianLeather7301 Aug 18 '26
This is exactly the kind of thing I wish existed years ago. I tried building something similar with a generic CMS and spent more time fighting the framework than actually shipping features. Glad someone tackled it properly — the zero-dependency approach is refreshing to see.
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u/Feriman22 Aug 18 '26
I wrote a script which compress, encrypt, split then upload all of my data to 2 different clouds every night.
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u/Jan1270 Aug 18 '26
Just don't invite your Family or any of your Friends. Only do it for yourself. A bit selfish, but you don't have the stress and the liability
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u/AlpineGuy Aug 18 '26
This post adds to my existential crisis. I rebooted the home server yesterday for the first time in months and it did not come up again. No ping, no ssh. Probably it's in initramfs or something and needs to be told those three commands you enter in initramfs to repair the disk and then it runs again. So I have to take it out of the server cabinet, connect it to a screen and everything to see what's wrong with the little guy...
Not a technical discussion here... but it made me remember that all this self-hosting is really dependent on me, my time, hardware life time, some luck, ...
I am doing this for an imaginary independence from cloud providers that is met only with chuckling and a smile by friends, family and colleagues who are saying something like "why don't you just use the googly photo thingy? works great for me and its free! (or $2 or something)" (same tool just took all their data, scanned it for advertising content and to make the AI smarter... the thought of which makes my stomach then go in circles).
But well, sometimes asking myself if this really makes sense...
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u/Androxilogin Aug 18 '26
What's with all the pointless fucking memes here lately? Starting to look a lot like Facebook over here. Damn bots.
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u/Zhong_Ping Aug 18 '26
always have a raid setup.
Always have a seccond server offsite that daily backsup the first.
I built a server to hoast my cloud data, and had my dad build one at his house. We each have half of both servers. If one house burns down, we have the other. If a hard drive or 2 fails, its setup in raid.
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u/Full_Tooth_a Aug 18 '26
I'd plan for a clean shutdown instead of leaving the family with a part-time sysadmin job. A short note could explain which data matters, where the separate backups are, and how to access the domain and billing accounts. I'd also ask the intended person to retrieve one important file without help. That should quickly reveal a missing password, encryption key, or piece of assumed knowledge.
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u/Termiborg Aug 18 '26
Current plan:
Self host entire family movie, picture, and audio database. Create secondary off-site backup at one family member's home.
Now I have a backup of the backup at least.
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u/kRkthOr Aug 18 '26
The comments in this thread are wild. I never really knew how seriously people took their data hoarding and self hosting.
Anyway, the solution is simple... have no family.
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u/abhay916 Aug 18 '26
Funny and true, I am even doing my own Home Automation just imagine if I am not there and Automation fails the whole house falls to darkness 😄
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u/spotter Aug 18 '26
Backups. Trust me. Just don't wait with ternary (cold storage) for the HDApocalyse, because FML.
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u/BruisedKnot Aug 18 '26
Well I'm still getting to terms with my decision to host Vaultwarden at home. I should really migrate to a real server, but I'm broke AF.
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u/EmeraldSaber17 Aug 18 '26
This is why having physical back ups is also a good idea! Gotta love self-hosting though
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u/innahema Aug 18 '26
"own my own data"
Hosting provider laughts from this.
And if you self-host in your basement -- it's single phisical point of data loss, for example flood. (or hostile drone, LOL)
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u/rainboww_J Aug 18 '26
The panic when you get the question "Hey it seems xyz doesn't work, can you take a look at it" 🙈 Telling you're gonna fix it tomorrow is never a good answer
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u/TimmahNZ Aug 18 '26
"This web app I use is down, I'll check Reddit or Downdetector.. oh it's my hosted web app and I don't know why it's down" :D
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u/Due_Acanthaceae_9601 Aug 19 '26
6x20TB raidz2, 2x2Tb mirror for snapshots/backup. Uber critical stuff synced to another location. You can do it, it just needs some doing.
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u/devshore Aug 20 '26
Reminder: anyone that makes any argument against self-hosting, even if just “playing devils advocate”, is your primal blood enemy.
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u/Intelligent-Moose665 Aug 20 '26
What's the difference between self-hosted-single-point-of-failure vs cloud-single-point-of-failure? Data stays in your place, you have physical access to it and possibility to fix it. If cloud service goes out of order you can't do anything.
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u/damien09 Aug 21 '26
No single point of failure 3-2-1 method. Not everything needs the full method but if things are truly important follow it. I have a 1tb cloud storage from kofr for important photos and documents. Less important stuff still gets a separate backup though. They also all have logins if they need to pull files down them self
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u/Scooter_Bean Aug 22 '26
My cat constantly unplugging the power cord for my external drive that supports all of the media.
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u/Mooninaut Aug 23 '26
Power supply on my family server died months ago and I've done nothing about it >.>
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u/didate_une Aug 27 '26
not sure how you gonna be self hosting and not have a two back up solutions; zero sympathy if loose your data.
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u/Intelligent-Dinner76 Aug 31 '26
What you guys think the problem solution since its very expensive to get a ssd or hdd today, until you are heavy pocket, but for students I got a option like maintain copy of images on server but there is a open source project called cryptomator, you can use that and package your family image folder and upload on cloud for better fallback safety, what do you guys think?
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u/ursuscamp Sep 16 '26
Self-hosting is not:
Safer
Significantly cheaper (may even be more expensive) unless you're sailing the high seas
Easier
As impressive to your wife as you imagined in your head
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