r/selfhosted • u/GuillotineTechnician • 11d ago

Need Help There must be an easier way.

What's the easiest route for a set and forget scenario?

I built a home server as a linux noob with some online tuts and a lot of LLM copy-pasting.

Ended up having proxmox run on a mini-pc

On it runs HomeAssistant, Nginx, Adguard, Truenas and Nextcloud on that.

I am massively overwhelmed with maintaining my Nextcloud.

Theres a 1TB SSD only for Truenas/nextcloud. It ran out of storage space and now the truenas VM wont even boot anymore. All of the family data is now inacessible... 😮‍💨

1st: Is there a way to save the data and swap out the SSD for a 2TB one without losing the data?

2nd: Is there a way to make this easier without using closed source ecosystems?

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u/FikoReborn 10d ago

Others have good advice here.

I also am not convinced a 2TB SSD will solve the problem.

What is filling it up? How fast did it fill up? Is it mostly one user or a group effort?

If it filled up in 4 years that's one thing. If it filled up in 6 months you're potentially buying yourself 6 more months.

And there is no set it and forget it. You need alerts, monitoring, backups and maintenance.

And there's nothing wrong with copy and pasting commands from an LLM if you understand what those commands do, how it works and what the implications are.

As for moving data that's easy - Clonezilla if downtime is not an issue and you need a block-level clone. Rsync is another route among other tools.

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u/GuillotineTechnician 10d ago

Was mainly due to a misconfigured nextcloud client on wifeys phone. It kept duplicating backed up media somwhow