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anamethatisnt , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How to drop files from Android to home server?

Material Files support both SMB and SFTP - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/

anamethatisnt , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Selfhosted in OpenWRT gateway with TP-Link brand access points

Any router that supports latest openwrt will be able to do a mesh network, if you have the option to run cable I would recommend ethernet backhaul instead.

Sometimes there are caveats when setting up the mesh, f.e. the firmware issue and fix here:
https://www.tekovic.com/blog/openwrt-80211s-mesh-networking/

Hardware list:
https://openwrt.org/toh/start?toh.filter.supportedcurrentrel=22.03%7C23.05

edit:
OpenWrt Mesh guide:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/80211s
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/mesh11sd

edit 2 adding the openwrt warning here:
It is unfortunate that some manufacturers have used the word “Mesh” for marketing purposes to describe their non-standard, closed source, proprietary “roaming” functionality and this causes great confusion to many people when they enter the world of international standards and open source firmware for their network infrastructure.

The accepted standard for mesh networks is ieee802.11s.
The accepted standard for fast roaming of user devices is ieee802.11r.

These are two completely unrelated standards.

anamethatisnt , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How do I use an OpenWRT device as both an extender (for the main router) as well as a firewall + NAT box?

The main config needed is AP+Sta mode, which is explained here:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/ap_sta

anamethatisnt , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How do I use an OpenWRT device as both an extender (for the main router) as well as a firewall + NAT box?

Pretend the "main router" is a hotel wifi and use the TravelMate package.
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/travelmate/files/README.md

anamethatisnt , 3 months ago to homelab in Travel Routers

The default block all incoming and allow all outgoing works fine for me. ARP and such won't traverse the router and the VPN should be a full tunnel, so no device info except the travel router itself should leak.

OpenWrt Travelmate is great for this purpose.

anamethatisnt , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Proxmox vs. TrueNAS Scale

You setup Proxmox Backup Server on separate hardware and then you add it as a storage option in your Proxmox Virtualization Server.
I haven't dived into it but I imagine you could run the Proxmox Backup Server as a VM in your Synology NAS.
https://www.proxmox.com/images/download/pbs/docs/proxmox-backup-3-1.pdf

edit: Unofficial PBS Docker github: https://github.com/ayufan/pve-backup-server-dockerfiles

anamethatisnt , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin

There's also some web-based solutions but not sure setting up a webserver is any less complicated than using docker:
https://lycheeorg.github.io/
https://piwigo.org/

anamethatisnt , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How dumb would it be to run single-node ceph?

Found an interesting read regarding the matter here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ceph/comments/mppwas/single_node_ceph_vs_zfsbtrfs/
Most seem to recommend going for ZFS instead if using a single machine but there is a person discussing his first hand experience with single node Ceph.

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self Hosting Fail

Eatons batteries are usually really simple to switch, see
https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/products/backup-power-ups-surge-it-power-distribution/backup-power-ups/eaton-5s-ups/eaton-5s-120v-user-manual-700-1000-1500-lcd.pdf

For me they are meant for allowing a graceful shutdown in a powerout scenario and to protect the hardware behind them from power surges.

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self Hosting Fail

Figure out how much power your servers use on average with the help of a wattage meter, then enter that number and how many minutes battery backup you want in Eatons UPS Power Calculator to find a suitable unit. I'm sure other vendors have similar tools too.

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in TrueNAS vs Debian

portainer.io with debian gives you a web UI if that's the only thing stopping you.
There's a Community Edition (CE) here: https://www.portainer.io/install

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in DAS recommandation

I think Mediasonic still makes 8 bay DAS units, they're becoming a lot rarer.
I would probably start looking at NAS units if I were you, or buy a bigger tower case and fit the disks internally instead.

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to homelab in ISP Router change in my HomeLab

With that budget I would look at home routers that you can run openwrt on: https://openwrt.org/toh/start?toh.filter.supportedcurrentrel=22.03%7C23.05

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to homelab in ISP Router change in my HomeLab

Does your server has an empty pcie slot? If so I would go for an ethernet pcie card instead of usb-c adapter.

Or, more expensive, go for a qotom router and migrate opnsense to it.
f.e. something like this https://teklager.se/en/products/routers/tlsense-J6412-aesni-router

anamethatisnt , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Now that vmware is over, what should I move to?

I use cockpit and my phone to start my virtual fedora, which has pcie passthrough on gpu and a usb controller.

Desktop:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9576ffd1-f65d-4d88-9b1d-17b03fc61709.png

Mobile:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5cdf480e-ccbf-4e21-9c0d-d261464177f1.png