100daysofhomelab

A couple of days back, I started thinking about archiving and backup software. I kind of have backups “sorted”, with my MacBook Pro using BackBlaze to backup to the cloud, Time Machine backing it up to my Synology, my VMs on Proxmox being backed up to Proxmox Backup Server off-site, my Synology and QNAPs being backup to B2 and Hetzner and some other bits and bobs… But for the Archiving stuff, I am not really set up… So, I went looking for archiving software. Couldn’t find anything, so asked on r/DataHoarder. Still no options, at the time of posting, but someone did reply with the idea of using DVDs (or Blu Rays) for ZFS...

Day 52 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been out of the lab most of the day. Still looking through all the docker containers on docker box 1, which has been running for many years now, and trying to figure out how to move everything is going to be fun… looks like I have an iSCSI volume added to the box. It’s shared between a few docker containers… then there are NFS mounts too… This might take longer than expected… So… more digging through YAML…

Day 51 of #100daysofhomelab and I am planning my move of some of my Docker instances in the house to new machines… GodBoxV3 is currently running Windows Server 2022 with a couple of HyperV VMs on it. One runs docker containers and the other USIP from Ubiquiti for managing my EdgeSwitches. I am trying to move these VMs off that machine and do a clean-up, and the plan is to either install Proxmox with TrueNAS as a VM with disks passed directly into it, plus some other VMs or TrueNAS direct with VMs on there… Suggestions? Anyway, as part of the clean-up, I put my custom WordPress Container up on GitHub and it builds new builds nightly. The move is going to be fun, so my weekend will be busy… So, other than that, some links.

Day 50 of #100daysofhomelab (this was stuck in a draft folder, so this is a couple of weeks old… I decided to recycle this as day 50, but it was originally day 37 or something…).

Just about 13 days ago: After running ZFS on my Mac for a few hours, I removed it and installed a trial of the SoftRAID software. I am not sure what was going on, but with ZFS installed, my machine just kept crashing. less than an hour and bang. So, I installed SoftRAID, and the speed ok. Not massive speeds, but not 100% sure I am using the right cables. More testing with cables soon.But in reality, this is software RAID 5 over 5 spinning disks. 270Mb/s read ain’t bad. 115Mb/s write ain’t great, but it’s RAID 5.

Day 49 of #100daysofhomelab, and I missed this yesterday, but it’s only going to be a link dump… And todays link dump is mostly Mikrotik gear! Some of these are a little cringy (looking at your Solid Rack video) But hilarious nonetheless! Some of these are so new, they don’t even seem to have product pages, just videos announcing them…

Day 48 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been out of commission for the last couple of days… Havnt been well… cold and flu-like symptoms, but luckily, not Covid… Haven’t done a major amount, so it’s mostly links for today, but I did try a few projects and installed them. Links for those are below.

Day 47 of #100daysofhomelab and i have missed a few days due to, well, a mix of laziness and being busy… I was working from my new home office today… still need to get some cabling and other stuff sorted, but we are getting close… nearly a year since it was installed! More on that at a later stage… for today, some links.

Day 46 of #100daysofhomelab and I haven’t had much time to work on the homelab this weekend, but have had some time using it, somewhat indirectly. Plex, Netflix and Disney Plus streaming, etc. Internet is more stable (but not 100%. more messing on that part soon) and the RB5009 is definitely more stable (IPv6 BGP is currently off, and only using 5 of my 14ish BGP sessions I could use. I think 1Gb RAM is struggling, or my filters are wrong. Hopefully, it’s a filter thing, that way I can sort it out without new hardware.

Day 45 (little late) of #100daysofhomelab, and still quite busy with $DayJob stuff. Mostly monitoring of the network and the like. Some links are below:

• How to Set Up a 24/7 Livestream Powered by Starlink – Speedify
• How To Boost Starlink Internet with Two Additional Connections – Speedify
• Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership – The Verge
• Announcing pricing updates and more flexible payment options for Google Workspace | Google Workspace Blog – price increases if you pay monthly…
• Frebniis: New Malware Abuses Microsoft IIS Feature to Establish Backdoor | Symantec Enterprise Blogs (security.com)
• Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS · Tailscale
• 4.0.0 — Homebrew

Day 44 of #100daysofhomelab and still quite busy with $DayJob. so some links below.

• Intel Launches Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 Processors For Workstations: Up to 56 Cores and 112 PCIe 5.0 Lanes (anandtech.com)
• Tiernan on Twitter: “RT @ZeroTier: ZeroTier 1.10.3 is now available. This release includes low bandwidth mode, a duplicate path bug fix, and OIDC improvements..” / Twitter
• swarmlet/swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service that enables easy swarm deployments, load balancing, automatic SSL, metrics, analytics and more. (github.com

Also, I have been fiddling with some JQ and Zerotier-CLI commands. Not finished, but working on trying to get some data out of the CLI. I have a GitHub Gist with some details. I plan on adding to it over time.