Always check your backups!

I'm gonna have to do the extremely difficult and time consuming thing of migrating and backing up my data. I'm lucky enough to have an identically sized set of drives, but it will still be a pain. My server has been extremely flaky this week, because of course it has. After all, I'm not home to troubleshoot or fix it. I think it's about time to redo it all from scratch with the knowledge I have now. I've been running on the same data structures and setups from when I started self-hosting. I know how to do it better now but it always required too much work and potential data loss.
#SelfHosting

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 111 (quiet edition)

Good morning Fedi friends!

I hope you had a nice weekend.

After backing up my two VPSs I am now staring at my #YunoHost dashboard thinking: now what?

It feels a little odd not to have to tackle any pressing self-hosting issues. Everything seems to be working well, including my manual installation of Ghost on a second (Ubuntu) VPS.

I'm now in maintenance mode.

I must confess in the past 24 hours I have spent some time browsing @yunohost 's app catalogue. So many fascinating things in there! But I am exercising restraint (for now, LOL!)

I'm very grateful for all the software I'm currently self-hosting.

On Debian (via YunoHost):

• #Fail2Ban
• #Friendica -> https://elenarossini.fr/profile/ele/
• #GoToSocial (this account!)
• #LinkStack -> https://elena.social
• #Pixelfed -> https://photos.elenarossini.com/ele

On Ubuntu:

• Fail2Ban
• My #Ghost blog/newsletter -> https://news.elenarossini.com
• #Varnish cache

I'm highly aware of my privilege and how lucky I am to be doing all this. But can I confess I'm a little bored? Thankfully I may have another big project on the horizon: upgrading my VPS and installing / self-hosting #PeerTube. But that will be for another week. Resting now and enjoying this sense of empowerment / digital sovereignty. Very grateful to be in this position.

Wishing you all a fantastic week!

As we always take our time, latest Cloudron release v8.3 is only now fully rolled out to all. Most instances would have already gotten the update as early as 2 weeks ago.

Mostly it only contains housekeeping updates to core services: https://blog.cloudron.io/cloudron-8-3-released/

#eMail #selfHosting gurus: I am looking for the simplest possible way to host myself a mailbox I can add to my email clients (Thunderbird, phone, etc.) as usual, so I can move mails there to free up space on the 3rd party "real" emails, then back them up separately on my server.

I do not want receiving or sending emails to work. Just an IMAP or whatever box I can shove emails in the face by dragging them in Thunderbird or with a script.

Ideally available in #NixOS

#dovecot?

Pro pessoal do self-hosting:

Vocês hospedam o conteúdo de outras pessoas que não vocês mesmos (família, amigos, etc)?

Se sim, vcs tem algum plano de sucessão para quando vocês partirem dessa vida? O que ocorrerá com os sistemas e dados das outras pessoas que usam esses sistemas? Tem alguma outra pessoa na linha de sucessão que consiga manter essas soluções?

Pergunta sincera mesmo, pois eu ainda não pensei no meu plano de sucessão pra isso.

Favor boost pra mais alcance.

#selfhosting #selfhosted

Anybody out there in #homelab land using #TrueNAS Scale with VMs?

I've built a nice, reliable NAS. And then I noticed that it could do VMs. Great! I thought. I have a couple different VMs running some important things like #HomeAssistant.

What I have discovered is that their VM support is terrible. Unless I misunderstand, I literally cannot do any of these things:

• backup a VM
• restore a VM
• export a VM
• import a VM
• snapshot a VM

If I treat each VM like a full #linux host, I can back it up using something else (e.g., rsync). But if this was #xcp with Xen Orchestra, I'd have this whole thing solved in seconds.

I'm thinking about creating a big VM, running a nested hypervisor (XCP) and then running my VMs there. But that sounds like a huge faff. And even then, while I could snapshot the child VMs, that parent VM running the hypervisor would be hard to backup/restore.

I have plenty of RAM and spare CPU cycles on my NAS. But I've only recently understood how bad this VM support is. If I lost my HomeAssistant VM I'd cry.

Anybody have thoughts on this?
#selfhosting #selfhosted

#selfhosting #freebsd - day 22

Lambing has blown my plans to have my BSD-Only by the 11th so I've had to give the damned penguin this victory but only while I bring my VPS up properly.

Here are the edited highlights...

HAProxy got set to listen to the entire ::/64 (yes, including requests from itself) this went as took longer than expected to nail down.

added blacklistd - it's so refreshing to just do a quick sysrc and edit pf.conf

SSHD - turned off legacy IP connectivity - it is always humbling to see how many boxes are trying to connect to ssh looking for an open port. I might give them a honeypot/tarpit to play in later

A hardware issue seems to have taken not one, but two 12TB drives to valhalla.

Na Prima. Das wäre heute auch geschafft. Einmal #Sharepoint durch #Nocodb ersetzt und alle Daten migriert. #unplugtrump

Edit: #selfhosting is very simple and smaller installations even don't need a full blown #PostgreSQL server.

https://docs.nocodb.com/

Vergangene Tage habe ich mal getestet, welche Backup-Strategien es für Friendica-Posts gibt. Zum einen kann man das Friendica-Addon "WordPress Post Connector" nutzen, aber ich wollte dafür nicht extra einen WordPress-Blog ins Internet stellen, sondern die Beiträge bei mir im heimischen, lokalen Netzwerk sichern.

Also habe ich ein wenig herumexperimentiert und das ist dabei herausgekommen:

Link: BlogZwo.me - Ein privates Archiv für Friendica-Posts im Heimnetzwerk erstellen mit WordPress

#Friendica, #WordPress, #Backup, #selfhosting, #RaspberryPi

It's here! Another big blog post about my current personal infrastructure setup!

Ran out of infrastructure titles

https://arch.dog/bark/2025-03-30-infrastructure