Yeah that looks fine, odd.

I assume this is a pretty normal install of Ubuntu, and /var/lib/docker hasn’t been messed with at all?

The question is, is there any way without having to format the hard drives with data?

MergerFS would let you pool drives without needing to set up RAID and format them.

Then add SnapRAID on top of that for parity.

Like, could there be a duplicate dB volume and when the stack gets restarted, docker picks one or the other?

I’m not sure that is possible. Once a service has a volume defined it’ll use that unless you manually change it.

But if you don’t have a volume defined, data won’t persist when the service is updated.

If you’re just using the compose stack given by Immich, then everything should be set up properly though.

You mean run those programs directly on opnsense? I don’t believe there is any way to do that.

No configuration is needed on opnsense to use them as normal on your devices though, so that’s your best option.

IIRC it also stores your account password server side and stores your emails there too, it’s literally just webmail.

Unfortunately Proton doesn’t have much in the way of standard protocols, no IMAP/SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc…

IMO Nextcloud while not great as a file syncing program, makes a pretty good Calendar and Contacts storage with full support for those protocols, and a webUI to access them.

You could technically do that from like 2x ~$150 used business desktop PCs off ebay, 10th gen Intel CPU models or around there with Core i3/i5 CPUs.

Throw some M.2 SSDs in each one in a mirror array for storage, add a bit of additional RAM if needed and a 10G NIC. Would probably use about 30-40W total for both of them.

Minecraft servers are easy to run, they don’t need much especially on a fairly modern CPU with high single thread performance, and only use maybe 6GB of RAM for a modded one.

You’re not asking for a whole lot out of the hardware, so you could do it cheap if you wanted to.

Damn that’s a setup alright!

If you’re making use of the hardware it’s well worth it over anything cloud based for sure.

About 120W total for:

• 2 Proxmox hosts with 4 spinning disks between them
• Opnsense firewall
• 24 port GbE switch
• Fiber ONT
• Unifi AP

I just do the first option.

Everything is pretty much idle at 3am when the backups run, since it’s just me using the services. So I don’t really expect to have issues with DBs being backed up this way.

I don’t even have all that much storage (18TB usable), the other side of things is I’d need 8x 5TB 2.5" drives in RAID 10 to be equal my 2x 18TB 3.5" drive mirror I have now, which means I’d need to add an HBA card that also consumes more power. Even if I ran RAIDz2 I’d still need 6 drives.

Price is another factor, from some poking around 2.5" is around 2x the cost of what I paid for my 3.5" drives.

It looks like about 2-3W with 2.5" vs 6-8W with 3.5"

So 3.5" drives are going to be more efficient, since you can get one that’s 4x the capacity (20TB vs 5TB) for only a little over double the power usage.

Less noise is definitely a bonus if your NAS sits next to your workstation or something though.

3.5" are cheaper, go up to higher capacities (2.5" maxes out at only 5TB IIRC), and are easier to find cheap in used/refurb formats.

I wouldn’t use 2.5" unless you absolutely had to for some reason.

Pretty normal tbh, a lot of those thumb drives get very hot. Probably not great for its lifespan though.

Best bet is install an SSD if you have a spot for an M.2 or 2.5" drive inside.

Firefox; easy to sync, easy to access, easy to search through.

True, but at least you only have 1 VPN exposed that you need to secure and keep up to date, vs a bunch of random services that may or may not be built well for security.

It’s very hard to compromise a VPN, they’re designed specifically to prevent that.

A random service being exposed to the entire Internet may not be secure, and could provide a way in to your network for someone.

Wasabi and iDrive E2 are 2 others I know of similar to S3 and B2.

Generally to depend on a container it needs to be in the same compose project, so if you move gluetun into the one with qbittorrent it should work fine.

I didn’t say CPU? Quicksync is Intels dedicated hardware transcoder in the iGPU.