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ZeDoTelhado

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  • Syncthing alternatives

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  • Had a pixel 8, and now a new pixel 9a. I think the problem is actually a bit messy. On my house I have several access points. There is a chance when syncthing is working, and I am going up or down, phone changes the access point. Syncthing possibly gets a ' oppsie, didn't finish that! Let's go for the next one' kind of issue. Of course, never looked into logs or anything so this is just pure speculation.

    Usually the kind of corruption on the photos is the kind that beginning is always there, but at some point gets replaced with gray, hence my theory about the files.

  • Syncthing alternatives

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  • That is actually a good question, in this case the HDD is totally fine. Thing is, the photos only get corrupted very rarely (probably 1 every 3000 or so, and only sometimes) and often photos that got transfered several times to the phone (usually the problem is in the phone. On the desktop never had that)

    As for immich, I do know about of but seems to be a bit much for what I need (and only photos AFAIK)

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • My plan is to go there at least once a year, so that would work for me

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • From my experience in the past, ups are done to be constantly on, and as far as I know, usually they have failsafe mechanism in case something is not working as intended. Laptop batteries do not have such extensive protection from what I know. However, if an ups is getting old (around 5 years or so) is probably best to change the batteries (if the model allows it)

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • That is true, however there are 2 things

    • battery of this machine is toast (holds up for half an hour or less)
    • as someone mentioned in another comment: unattended laptops with batteries can be actually bad. Batteries on certain cases can leak and cause fires, so for me, if it can work without it great, otherwise I have to drop the idea

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • I actually have contingencies for this. There is a ups around that I can use. It is good advice for sure, specifically for countries with fluctuations on the electric grid

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • I am planning after installing Ubuntu server and get some setup done, to actually sit it out and understand how much the fan is going and how I expect this to be an issue. Since my backups are probably going to be once in a week or so, I do not expect the laptop to have a lot of work (for now is just for file backup, no other services in there except tailscale)

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • At a later stage I will have to design a strategy to access and make sure is OK. Probably I am going to stick to tail scale and make sure no matter what both tailscale and ssh always start. Sure there can be issues but if minimal services can be guaranteed then it should mostly ok

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  • You are not wrong with the vps. Although I am quite worried that my data stays with me no matter what. Not that I have state secrets or anything, but my stuff is my stuff. And to avoid issues with encryption and such, your own device most of the times is king

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • For sure not :D. I will be installing something such as ubuntu server, so I do not expect this issue (I don't remember if the laptop has power saving via bios, but need to check)

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • Thanks for the pointer. Indeed I should probably see first the homelab communities as well

  • How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?

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  • This is a good point actually. I will need to check the laptop can run without battery at all (back in the day I remember this was possible, nowadays I am not sure)

  • Trying to understand what should change on my current setup

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  • Never heard of pikvm, it actually looks like a very interesting solution.

    From the previous point, what I mean by headless is basically to go the server, yank the GPU, press power button and it just boots.

    I've tried several times, but bios straight up doesn't let me go on. I've seen in a couple of places some mobos simply refuse to boot without a GPU.

    I can see if I can have a decent value for the GPU. If not, I guess it's doing its job as is. It just feels a waste to have this GPU be used as video for a server.

  • Trying to understand what should change on my current setup

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  • You are for sure right. I did find gaps on my solution right now which is:

    • I have several external disks that only have the information once (some of then quite old).
    • if I aggregate all of those in one spot I for sure need more space
    • right now the ssds are grouped into a lvm to make a logical volume of 3TB (at the time this was OK since I was testing it out for a while). However, one disk fails and I have a problem on my hands.
    • decided to look into ssd prices and my eyes started get watery at how expensive would it be (thus, coming to the realization regarding disk types. Didn't mention before since my post was getting WAY too long).

    Since I get this now, I am trying to understand better the landscape of solutions that can potentially fit.

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  • Thanks for the reply. The breakdown is very good and I can actually see a lot of reasoning on your situation that I also would share (I do not have vast amounts of money to throw at this + only one drive failing and 2 handle the boat sounds about right).

    As for the way to do the software raid, I've seen MD somewhere before but I honestly forgot. Since people tend to talk about unraid a lot. From my perspective, I would probably go as simple as possible, although I will be studying how effectively MD works.

    Great reply :) learned a lot

  • Trying to understand what should change on my current setup

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  • This is something I still don't fully understand because raid in itself has so many bizarre terms and configurations that for the initiated is just really hard to understand, unless you really take time to dive into it.

    So my question is: when you tall about software raid, which configuration you mean? And also, how many drives are needed to do such configuration? Thanks in advance

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  • Thanks for your insights. Yes you are for sure correct. There was a time I had friends of mine losing everything because of spinning drives. But then again, none of them were nas grade (and also, was a time having 128gb was an absolute luxury).

    As for RAID, I was asking since it is something I hear people a lot doing. On my situation, my plan is to always have an external ssd with me plus a future remote like location for last ditch effort to save the data if really needed. So maybe it is OK for me to skip it. (And if I don't have access to my photos for a week, no one dies)