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Found a kingston drive with today delivery.... going to get two so I have backup for next time.

amazing how reliable you become on automations, we can't remember about 80% of the stuff that needs to get done, like which switches turn on which outside lights....

EDIT: Already realized I've stuffed up - looked at my backups, home-assistant was backed up on the day of the crash - but - ALL my docker containers were last backed up in 2023 - round about when I changed the home-assistant backups.

Going to be a fun week - need to get everything working before Thursday, otherwise no weekend away.
 
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xrapidx said:
Found a kingston drive with today delivery.... going to get two so I have backup for next time.

amazing how reliable you become on automations, we can't remember about 80% of the stuff that needs to get done, like which switches turn on which outside lights....

EDIT: Already realized I've stuffed up - looked at my backups, home-assistant was backed up on the day of the crash - but - ALL my docker containers were last backed up in 2023 - round about when I changed the home-assistant backups.

Going to be a fun week - need to get everything working before Thursday, otherwise no weekend away.
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Time to spin up Tailscale, setup what you can and do the rest on your weekend away as and when you have a gap.
 
Well - back up and running, some important things I need to add to future back-ups

mysql - over 5 years of history lost from home-assistant. Sadly - it was backed up when hosted on my nas - but I moved it to docker because of version issues, and forgot to do backups

mysql - again, my kodi library. Fortunately not a train smash as I no longer keep most content.

sonarr - disaster - I have a backup from 2023 - its trying to catchup the last two years - which I don't want it doing.

Zigbee2MQTT - again, what a pain in the ass - have to redo the entire network - and some of these damn devices are in the roof /wall switches, so I need to open them up.

Key files - they're not part of my backups - but - need to be. Almost lost ssh to the nas, fortunately I had the key just by chance. (the NAS is locked down, I once found a site that guides you into how to get SSH/root access - said site is gone)

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And onto the NAS - going to have to figure something out here, checking smartctl - the drives have over 80000h+ uptime. Not 100% sure what though. 20TB of data.
 
You have a long road ahead of you getting all that sorted. Do you host your stuff on bare metal?
 
PhireSide said:
You have a long road ahead of you getting all that sorted. Do you host your stuff on bare metal?
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Well - the various server components are run on a HP Microserver Gen8 - the thing is pretty bullet proof reliability wise (besides the drive) - and I like having iLo, which gives me almost 100% access, even when the main OS/drive is down.

The NAS is a priority Buffalo NAS configured as RAID6, initially a good idea, but - I think its served its purpose. Going to remove all critical data, and find another approach.
 
I have been loving having the dedicated Home Assistant Yellow. Less complexity than having the VM running in Proxmox and then having to worry about the updates for both the hypervisor host and the HAOS.

It's been rock solid too and haven't had any issues with updates 🤞
 
If I had to redo everything, I would get a PC that supports Intel vPro/AMD DASH, load Proxmox and have a Tailscale instance running on a separate machine (Rpi maybe) with subnet routing.

That way, if you have internet access, you should be pretty much guaranteed remote OOB access to the machine barring a hardware failure that causes it to not POST. Although I would have another machine with Proxmox Backup Server running to ensure you have redundancy and can roll back should something go awry. That way you can have a system drive failure and still be able to recover pretty quickly.
 
PhireSide said:
If I had to redo everything, I would get a PC that supports Intel vPro/AMD DASH, load Proxmox and have a Tailscale instance running on a separate machine (Rpi maybe) with subnet routing.

That way, if you have internet access, you should be pretty much guaranteed remote OOB access to the machine barring a hardware failure that causes it to not POST. Although I would have another machine with Proxmox Backup Server running to ensure you have redundancy and can roll back should something go awry. That way you can have a system drive failure and still be able to recover pretty quickly.
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I think PBS is in my immediate future in terms of backups and redundancy. I already have 3 nodes running - just need to get a proper backup in the mix as well when funds permit. My HA is also backed up to my google drive so i at least have that.

I have some redundancy with pihole + unbound as i have a 3 node setup synched with orbital sync and a virtual IP as the DNS.

The *arr suite is not backed up at the moment, neither are my Blue Iris and OMV instances but these are less critical (at the moment)
 
Mzezman said:
I think PBS is in my immediate future in terms of backups and redundancy. I already have 3 nodes running - just need to get a proper backup in the mix as well when funds permit. My HA is also backed up to my google drive so i at least have that.

I have some redundancy with pihole + unbound as i have a 3 node setup synched with orbital sync and a virtual IP as the DNS.

The *arr suite is not backed up at the moment, neither are my Blue Iris and OMV instances but these are less critical (at the moment)
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Let me know your findings with PBS. I need to look into that as well
 
PhireSide said:
Let me know your findings with PBS. I need to look into that as well
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I always put it off and then the 1 day I did it and can't believe how easy it was.

I have 2 separate proxmox servers, 1 is running PBS and currently BOTH servers are backing up their own VMs and Containers to the PBS which has access to 2TB of storage.

Best part though, all backups are Incremental so only the differences are stored:
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241 backups and only using 289GB of storage.

I have also already made use of this, where I moved my Home Assistant VM from 1 Proxmox Server to the Other one.
Was a breeze and I was up and running with HA running within an hour on the new server.

Currently I am keeping the last 6 backups which is done daily:
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Wonder if My T530 will be up to the task of PBS...something to try out tonight or tomorrow.
 
valiente said:
I always put it off and then the 1 day I did it and can't believe how easy it was.

I have 2 separate proxmox servers, 1 is running PBS and currently BOTH servers are backing up their own VMs and Containers to the PBS which has access to 2TB of storage.

Best part though, all backups are Incremental so only the differences are stored:
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241 backups and only using 289GB of storage.

I have also already made use of this, where I moved my Home Assistant VM from 1 Proxmox Server to the Other one.
Was a breeze and I was up and running with HA running within an hour on the new server.

Currently I am keeping the last 6 backups which is done daily:
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Do you then backup the PBS elsewhere or is that too much?
 
Mzezman said:
Do you then backup the PBS elsewhere or is that too much?
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I believe that is easy to setup a SYNC job to another PBS.

But really not needed as I also do daily HA backups from within HA which gets copied to my NAS, Google Drive, within the VM itself and offshore to a friend's Unraid server via Syncthing.

Syncthing also handles my Appdata backups to my 2nd Proxmox Server and Offshore to a friends Unraid server.
 
valiente said:
I believe that is easy to setup a SYNC job to another PBS.

But really not needed as I also do daily HA backups from within HA which gets copied to my NAS, Google Drive, within the VM itself and offshore to a friend's Unraid server via Syncthing.

Syncthing also handles my Appdata backups to my 2nd Proxmox Server and Offshore to a friends Unraid server.
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Now THIS GUY knows whats what :)

i believe these are your kinfolk > https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
 
I know this is a safe space :D so I'll share my backup method:

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BackupFront is a 128 GB Flash Disk
BackupRear is a 128 GB Flash Disk
Bluewhale is a 1 TB SSD

All of these are attached/in my Proxmox machine.

I also backup HA which is probably the most critical to Google Cloud.

I'm stuck with this until you guys can convince my Mrs to get a dedicated something to run PBS.

Again, this is a safe space so don't roast me ;)
 
Muttley said:
I know this is a safe space :D so I'll share my backup method:

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BackupFront is a 128 GB Flash Disk
BackupRear is a 128 GB Flash Disk
Bluewhale is a 1 TB SSD

All of these are attached/in my Proxmox machine.

I also backup HA which is probably the most critical to Google Cloud.

I'm stuck with this until you guys can convince my Mrs to get a dedicated something to run PBS.

Again, this is a safe space so don't roast me ;)
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Which one of those is the fire-proof one?

😂😂😂
 
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