Only_CORE

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Upload backups to friends remote server (alien.top)
 

Me and my friend have an identical setup at our houses: Windows server VM with a drive we use for media, nextcloud, photos on our local network...

The idea is to create a backup folder on the drive that I will share with him and he with me which we will mount and where we'll upload backups of documents and other important files like immich library and it must be encrypted so we don't have access to each others files.

From my research we would use Tailscale as VPN and Veeam for creating encrypted incremental backups. (It's possible right?)

Is this an optimal setup + can we setup tailscale so the connection is only between the two servers without access to the whole network?

Also how to setup access to the shared folder? We would have to create users for each other or set the folder permissions to rw for everyone right?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Optimal memory configuration for DL360 g9? (alien.top)
 

Right now it has 2x 16GB 2RX4 PC4-2133P-RBB-11 in slots A1 and A2 (one for each CPU)

I want to upgrade to at least 64GB so can I just buy another two identical sticks?

Do they have to be exactly the same or if any HP 2133 16 GB kit with part number 726719-B21 compatible? I saw many very simillar sticks with a few different letters on ebay.

And is 4x 16GB optimal configuration? It would be in slots A1B1 and A2B2 right?

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[–] Only_CORE@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went on a first interview after studding mechanical engineering for 9 years. I applied for IT job and I got it lol. We talked about my homelab setup and my hobbies and I guess they liked me even though I didn't have previous IT experience. I'm now extremely happy I get paid for a job I love.

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HPE Proliant DL360p G8 PCIe M.2 SSD support (alien.top)
 

So my friend found the hard way that his new server doesn't support M.2 NVMe SSD when he put it inside the PCIe adapter. He can't boot from it.

My question is: Can he return the NVMe drive and put a regular SATA M.2 SSD in the PCIe adapter or will it also not work?

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How to manage storage with server running ESXI (alien.top)
 

I'm planning an upgrade to my homelab with a Proliant DL360 G9 with 256GB SSD for ESXI and 4*4TB HDD in raid 10.

It will be used for Nextcloud, Immich, media management, adguard and many, many more apps under Docker in Linux VM. Maybe NVR in the future.

So with this setup I would have two datastores: The one SSD with ESXI and a logical 8TB drive.

I have this idea: Create a Windows server VM and create a this folder structure for example:
share -> nextcloud_data

-> Immich_data

-> media

-> friends_backup etc... you get the idea...
and mount this shared folder in the Linux VM.

Is this a good setup? How much space from each datastore should I assign?(Install VM to SSD and add D drive with maybe 7TB?) What about a throughput between the VMs and shares? How to easily and securely manage access?

Bonus question: A friend will have identical setup. We would want to backup the most important files to each others servers. What VPN do you use to setup a connection between two servers? Or setup VPN on router?. as for the backup part I thought about using Veeam.