SayCyberOnceMore

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely?English
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    3 days ago

    Hmm, I setup a Proxmox machine a while back because, well, all the cool kids seemed to do it - and plenty of “support” on youtube

    I found Incus and it just seemed better, but it was harder to find info on (back then) and seemed a little unready

    Now, I regret not sticking with my gut instinct as I’ve got to basically rip out Proxmox to get Incus in, which means all my VMs are prisoners (and us: 1 VM is Home Assistant!)

    So, do you know if it’s possible to migrate my VMs across to Incus, or is it literally wipe drive, start again?

    (Obviously the data in each VM can be backed up & restored into new VMs)

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Am I corrupting my data?English
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    3 days ago

    I think you’ve misunderstood

    Ok, OMV needs a separate (small) boot drive to install on (ie consider a M.2 / SSD on a USB adapter)

    But, then all your (large) storage is used for the NAS.

    OMV will run Docker containers, but their data would also be pointed to the large NAS storage.

    |  Small |   Large   |
|--------+-----------|
| OMV    | Your Files|
| Docker | Data, etc |
  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Am I corrupting my data?English
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    4 days ago

    I always prefer bare metal for the core NAS functionality. There’s no benefit in adding a hypervisor layer just to create an NFS / SMB / iSCSI share

    OMV comes with it’s own bare metal installer, based on Debian, so it’s as stable as a rock.

    If you’ve used it before, you’re probably aware that it needs it’s own drive to install on, then everything else is the bulk storage pool… I’ve used various USB / mSATA / M.2 drives over the years and found it’s a really good way to segregate things.

    I stopped using OMV when - IMO - “core” functions I was using (ie syncthing) became containers, because I have no use for that level of abstraction (but it’s less work for the OMV dev to maintain addons, so fair enough)

    So, you don’t have to install docker, OMV automatically handles it for you.

    How much OMV’s moved on, I don’t know, but I thought it would simplify your setup.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Am I corrupting my data?English
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    5 days ago

    You should have all your data separately stored, it shouldn’t be locked inside containers, and using a VM hosted on a device to serve the data is a little convoluted

    I personally don’t like TrueNAS - I’m not a hater, it just doesn’t float my boat (but I suspect someone will rage-downvote me 😉)

    So, as an alternative approach, have a look at OpenMediaVault

    It’s basically a Debian based NAS designed for DIY systems, which serves the local drives but it also has docker on, so feels like it might be a better fit for you.