how do you know it’s working if you can’t connect?

if you run the server on your computer, did you set up the port forwarding? does it work if you just connect to localhost, or the local ip of that computer?

you can delete the calendaring and contacts apps

snapshots, clones, or automated setup with ansible or such

what do you mean by off network? on the wifi of a different home’s network, that has internet access?

the wireguard client on your laptop is supposed to give the laptop (and the laptop only) access to your home network, and the reverse proxy running on the laptop is supposed to give local devices access to services at home selectively, by listening on port 443 on the local network, and processing requests to services that you defined, by forwarding them through the vpn tunnel.
this requires that a machine at home runs a wireguard server, and that its port is forwarded in your router

or that yes, but I often don’t want to give the whole network access to my home network for security reasons, so that’s something to consider

I agree, but SSH is more secure than Jellyfin. it shouldn’t be exposed like that, others in the comments already pointed out why

and a local reverse proxy that can route through wireguard when you want to watch on a smart tv.

its not as complicated as it sounds, it’s just a wireguard client, and a reverse proxy like on the main server.

it can even be your laptop, without hdmi cables

this is a “beta”, the 2nd Release Candidate. they’ll mark a stable version when most of the bugs have been ironed out.

if you read further, he writes about peertube too

truly a passionate dev

Drives only consume power on reads and writes, if your NAS spins them down as it should (and apparently QNAP *doesn’t, which I didn’t know).

not really. not all drives spin down by themselves, by default. and even if they do, it’ll happen relatively long after reads and writes, a the while it’ll consume power.

The problem seems to be that even with a perfectly clean slate, no services running, the system set up in their own RAID0 SSD pool, the HDD’s, even with 0 bytes of data on them, are being pinged for access at least once a minute.

if it’s for drive health stats, and the device runs linux, hd-idle could help. it only counts actual block device (so, storage) access as activity

edit: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

And don’t think that SSD drives would do better - spinning disk drives generally have far better idle power than SSD does, and usually much better write power consumption.

I wonder if they can be “spinned down” like hard drives. their startup time would be much faster, so it’s shutdown could even be on a tighter schedule. I mean probably they dont have an internal idle timer, but who cares if you can just have something like hd-idle that shuts it down according to a better schedule.

In my experience using a PC as a NAS, the power draw isn’t necessarily the drives as they spin down when idle.

that’s not always the default setup, especially with enterprise drives. also if you have some kind of monitoring, that can keep the drives from going down (for that, use linux hd-idle instead of drive internal idle timer), and it can also wake them up (for that, prometheus node exporter’s smart collector first checks whether a drive is up, and only then collect stats). Interestingly, checking temps with smartctl always spins up my drives, while linux hwmon can give me live temp stats even while the drives are down

of course they didn’t say that, but the request for such tools was in the title

personal backups over torrent? and who would download that?

I have good news. I have just read the Proxmox 8.4 changelog, and they added support for using virtiofs with VMs, so now using it does not seem to require hacks anymore! But the limitation with databases probably still applies.

@RedBauble@sh.itjust.works unsure if you have read it already so tagging.

I run proxmox, and proxmox manages the zfs pool, there are VMs for important and convenience services, where important only hold things needed for the machine to work (so networking related) and metrics. I also have a desktop VM for the occasional use, and you can install opnsense later if you want an advanced firewall for VLANs and maybe internet too.
the storage is made accessible through virtiofs shares, but setup is quite hacky, and some things don’t like it (like it can’t store any kind of databases) because virtiofs works technically like a network filesystem, and does not support some consistency features (yet?). maybe ceph would be a solution, it is natively supported by proxmox.

if I were to build a new one, I would try out TrueNAS, it’s newer linux based version. I heard that can run VMs too if needed. I suspect that it can be more user friendly, but I haven’t used its web interface yet ever.

oh the find with the hash sum is good advice! I would have done this but manually, maybe with the double commander sync dirs tool.

but also, for configs this might be the best time to move your custom config to ordered dropin files for all things that support it.

on the tablet it should work fine in the browser. maybe that would also work on the TV, that’s exactly what most TV apps do anyway.