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Thank you for the answer :)

I don’t know much about CasaOS, but presumably you have the ability to stop your containers and access the filesystem to copy their config and mapped volumes elsewhere?

Yes absolutely, they provide a nice filebrowser which can also be mounted as a samba share (which they setup during install), in case one doesn't want to use the terminal for everything.

As far as networking, from what I could see the only real change casaos was doing was mapping its dashboard to port 80, but not much more. Is there anything more I should be aware in general?

When self-hosting, the more you know about how things actually work, the easier it is to fix when something is acting up, and the easier it is to make known good backups and restore them.

Exactly, I feel I am at the point where I got my hands dirty enough that I can dive deeper into knowing things, not necessarily immediately, but step-by-step.

Nice to know that someone did the same move, and happy that it went well :) did you have anything specific to remove from the CasaOS compose files? (I know they fill it with a lot of stuff useful for their categorization)

This is exactly how I feel! Everything works but I feel there is a lot that was ""forced'" on me that I don't use, and conversely a lot that is going on 24/7 and I don't really know how it works.

Archwiki is really an invaluable source of information, I use it regularly even if I never touched Arch.

Nice to know I am not alone! And I only recently started with linux, so I guess it's not really something that goes away with time 😂

I need to take a look at an immutable OS sooner or later, although I feel I would be annoyed for not being able to modify stuff for my liking (probably I will never be satisfied in any case)

Thanks for the answer : downtime isn't a problem since I am the only one using the server for now, and I still have leftovers from a previous setup (stremio, local music) for the days I will be without the server.

You are absolutely right, I haven't checked the backups yet, but I will make sure to do it. I was thinking to wipe radarr or sonarr, reinstall the container and restore from their manual backups, to see if everything works. For Immich is probably safer to start from scratch, I don't have that many photos backed-up anyway and I heard it might not always work.

Thanks for the suggestion! Yes I was grabbing everything that casaos didn't have from linuxserver.io, and read some of their stuff too, but I will be sure to check also dockerrun :) Downtime isn't a problem since I am the only one using the server for now, and I still have leftovers from a previous setup (stremio, local music)

Unfortunately I am not going to be able to afford a new hardware upgrade for a while, but otherwise yes that would have been the safest solution :)

That's interesting, thanks for sharing! :) I will try it out, as soon as I will have the will to update all my configs with the new app password. Amazing news tough!

Thanks both for the details, I'll keep everything in mind! Do you have any brand or models you would recommend for your experience? I took a look around and I think I will skip it for now as it will increase my budget a bit more than I want, but I'll go back to it in the future.

Thanks for the answer! Absolutely, as I said in another comment I don't think I can push more than 4tb with the inside drive. I found a crucial ssd for that size at a relatively reasonable price (~260€), I might just wait a little bit to increase the budget and go with that and don't worry about it for a while

No worries! I think I got what you meant, just wanted to make sure. I agree with you to separate storage from apps and systems, in this way if something goes wrong with the main drive (I think) I should also be able to restore the system and not lose any downloaded media or data.

You are correct about the IP address (searxng uses the IP of the instance) but aren't metadata stripped or am I reading this wrong? https://docs.searxng.org/own-instance.html#how-does-searxng-protect-privacy

Thanks! I was planning to add a backup storage at one point, I'll probably think about this option then :)

Thanks for the detailed answer! :) Indeed, I read that I would be limited in storage size if choosing the internal option. That said I am not sure I will be using more than 4tb in the next months, considering also that I don't have the need for 4k videos at the moment. Would it be a "waste" to just go for an internal ssd to start, and then upgrade to a larger hdd (external) in the future?

Also, sorry just to clarify, when you say

Make sure you’re not writing logs or anything like that to it, it should be on demand use only

Does downloading media to the drive still counts as a viable thing to do? And I guess the on demand use would be e.g. streaming.

Another mailbox.org user here. I did the same switch as @caravaggio@feddit.nl around the same time and I can highly recommend as well. Setting up custom domains is also not hard and well documented in their knowledge-base. I am also using it for calendars and contacts with no issues at all. A plus of their premium (3€/month) plan, apart from custom domains, is that you have access to a series of other things (appointments, videoconferencing etc.) which are a nice thing to have if you need them (as an occasional teacher in academia I enjoyed having the options, especially since I could avoid Google/Microsoft stuff).

The only annoying thing is how they handle 2fa login on their website. I rarely need to login, but when I do I always suffer.

Kvaesitso user here too, can confirm. It took two tries for me to really appreciate it and set it up as I wanted, but now I don't look back anymore.

For iOS you can use yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee

Amen