Get a secure proper cloud storage (Backblaze, Hetzner Object Storage/Storage box, Ionos,etc.) for daily/incremental backups and single file recovery. (As Tandberg is no longer an alternative this seems to be the only choice atm). Make sure you have encryption on and a proper rotation/deletion schedule.
Get an external harddrive for a full backup every few weeks/months, preferably store it offsite, even better if you get two and rotate them offsite.
Get a M-DISC Burner for the important files. Burn them onto BlueRay M Discs and store these at various offsite locations as well. Do so every few months. These have the advantage of being WORM (write once, read many).
Tapes are fucking expensive for current models and the old LTO drives one can get off Ebay,etc. tend to write faulty data and are almost always end of life. And as LTO is not backwards compatible beyond the generation below it's very much a possibility that people will have issues reading their tapes in 5 or 10 years.
It's a known side effect of Ketamine abuse that the complete urinary genital system gets inflamed.
Guys basically having a continuous cystitis and much more for the rest of his life - and he confirmed that to some degree.
Just another thing: Get proper,WORM(write once read many) backups.
Get a M-Disc capable blueray burner (around 100 bucks) and burn the real important stuff in Archive capable Bluerays (normal ones degrade within years,these don't).
You don't want to find out your datasets suffered from bit rot(yes,that is a thing) 5 years later and have no option to restore because you fucked up backups 2 years ago.
For the real important data(everything that can't be redownloaded aka the personal stuff) it's worth it.
Ideally do put some of those discs somewhere else,away from your house.
But for gods sake use proper backups.
The tendency for immich to break things is the reason I nowadays recommend photoprism to people who start with selfhosting - it's worse in a lot of ways but way more stable most of the times.
You don't need many "guides", especially not on blogs. They are risky - often written by people who don't really know what they are doing fully and,more importantly, don't update their guides.
Then things can become really really ugly fast.
If you managed to run jellyfin on a miniPC on Debian you are already doing a good job and very likely already quite a bit.
My personal recommendation:
Get another miniPC (no ARM,so no Raspi) and put Debian on it. Then use the Proxmox Community scripts to expand your reach, BUT use them as an "understanding how shit works" base - they have their limitations and their quality has sadly dropped since tteck is no longer with us. (RIP :(
That should give you a pretty good insight into virtualisation, KVM, basic networking - and a plattform to play that you easily can revert to an earlier state if you fuck up.
Remember backups, remember documentation (a wiki,maybe netbox) and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana or Zabbix are some of the multiple options).
If you want to, you can also look into bash scripts to automate a few things. I know people here hate LLMs but actually ChatGPT and perplexity are good for that. Let them write a bash script for some easy tasks (e.g. update the VM, download a configuration file, create two admin users, make them sudo, install zabbix agent, install this and that) and then let them explain step by step to you.
They aren't too bad at it and actually help you learn basic scripting fairly well. (And then learn it properly with a e-course or something.)
As long as you don't operate any public facing services and proper backups the actual risk involved is fairly small
Dude, just read the fucking manual, it's on page 95 right under "What to do when a Gloridian chokes you through the time window?"
And just before "Things you should report to the Time Cops"
Nah, i must disagree here. The posters are right about being a hobby for some people.
In two very bad ways
There are (usually the dads) who only pick it up once in a while the same way they go mountainbiking,etc.
Then they usually try to "make up" what they didn't do the rest of the days and make it "extra fun". (As usual the Simpsons did a good take on it in their fun dad episode)
But they don't give a rats ass the rest of the time. They don't go to the doctor with the kid,they don't know their school schedules,etc.
They pick their hobby up maybe twice a month.
I hate these people - because they are so numerous. When I am out with my kiddos I get comments "oh,do you babysit for your wife?" "Oh, it's nice you take that burden off your wife once in a while."
Like what? Are you fucking crazy? My wife is the actual main income earner and this is not the 50ies.
The other kind is as bad,imho. The overinvolved ones. The ones that basically want to do everything so right that it becomes their hobby (or obsession). The "oh no, my kid can't eat sugar that is not made from XY" "I will not raise my child, i will love-raise them", etc. Note that while these have a crosssection with helicopter parents they are a distinct group themselves,as some prefer an intentional other style of parenting (all nature and free roaming,etc.).
But they will focus on it - countless blogs, books from unqualified authors and instagram posts will be read, countless discussions, for them it becomes their hobby...or more.
So..there are some people who have parenting as a hobby. And that doesn't mean the ones who have no time for hobbies anymore - as parenting is fucking hard sometimes.
As someone who is German and lived in (urban) West Australia for a while and worked in its emergency services as a career paramedic:
People have no idea how fucking large Western Australia is and how fucking empty it is.
There are stations (farms) larger than a fair share of German states.
And yes, my dear Americans, it's even large by your standards - WA straight across is roughly the distance from SF to St.Louis and if you need an actual road it's basically the distance from SF to the east coast. With the difference that only 2.9 Million people live there - not even a third of greater SF and almost all of them live in the Perth metro region.
Outside of that there are very few population hotspots - after the 2.3 Millions in Perth the second largest town, Bunbury doesn't even have 100k.
Anyway, the area she got lost in is actually "that remote", to be honest. The nature reserve is only slightly larger than Luxembourg but fairly "close" to civilization as it's a nature reserve that is basically defining the end of the civilization in that area. To the west it's all farms and such. To the east? The big nothing. You only cross one road after 300km and only two more for the next 2000km..
The question I have is what she was doing there.
Because it's not an area you visit spontaneously, not an area you travel through or make a quick detour when going east.
Really strange.
Yeah, but please rely on them. An iPhone needs a working display basically to use it - and is far less "rugged" than a proper sat beacon. People tend to have their phones lying somewhere in their car, drop it when they try to get their car out of the sand, or simply forget to charge them.
There is a reason sat beacons are as rugged as they are.
(And btw, they don't work everywhere and not at all latitudes)
I know what you mean, but just saying that Proxmox absolutely has an Api that can do a few (not all) of these things - and some are potentially use cases for the data centre manager.
But yeah, I know what you mean.
Ignore the App and "buhuuu smarrrtt bad"!warning here and rather look at the brand more exactly and do your own due diligence. Is a cloud app bad? Yes,maybe. (But tbh, the amount of information given out is somewhat negligible here)
BSH (Bosch-Siemens Hausgeräte, incl. Neff and Gagenau) offers HomeConnect that at least is within GDPR reach. Even better: If you already have a Home Assistant instance running there is a "Home Connect local" integration that,well, gives you the important benefits while keeping it local.
Liebherr offers the "Smart Box" as an upgrade that your install yourself,but as far as I know there is no proper way to keep it offline. But Liebherr has a fair share of privacy certifications at least (and a lot to loose as loosing them for their "sidemarket" of household cooling appliances and thereby fucking over their professional market would really bite them..not that that is a guarantee, but...maybe it helps..
There are a few Asian brands that work with Tuya (which is a data security/privacy nightmare) but also support Tuya local (without cloud).
The information security risk for these solutions,especially when using proper network segmentation (which is easily done - if you aren't into IT then get a Omada combined router and be done in 1h)..
Last but not least:
You can of course smarten up your fridge yourself. Get a binary door opening sensor, wireless temperature probe and most importantly a power measuring plug (Nous A1T are Tasmota based and cheap) so you can find out early if your device fucks up.
Besides that'Considering the energy prices here get the most efficient one you can afford. It will get amortization sooner than you think.
Not me, but a friend. She got insulted by a drunk female nazi who happened to be... Ugly as fuck,not only because her ideology.
Very calm and mannered she simply told her:"Excuse me, Ma'am, as I midwife I feel professional inclined to forward an important piece of advice to your dear mother: Usually you throw the afterbirth away and keep the baby,not vice versa. "
Yep.
Absolutely the best advice.
I always recommend the same:
Tapes are fucking expensive for current models and the old LTO drives one can get off Ebay,etc. tend to write faulty data and are almost always end of life. And as LTO is not backwards compatible beyond the generation below it's very much a possibility that people will have issues reading their tapes in 5 or 10 years.