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Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? (lemmy.nocturnal.garden)

submitted 4 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What's up, what's down and what are you not sure about?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

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[–] TK420@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really like the idea of containers, it def solves my problems of running multiple services in the host OS. I’d like to build my own containers to pull the few “bare metal” services I’ll have outside of docker. Anyway, I’ll keep podman in the back of my head.

One thing I’m already happy I did was create a docker directory and having sub directories keep all of my container volumes separate. Should make backing things up easier as well.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, containers are great! It's really nice knowing exactly which directories to move if I need to rebalance my services onto other hardware or something.

Most of my services are on my NAS, so I have this setup:

/srv/nas/ - everything here is on my RAID, and offsite backups look here (and exclude certain directories to save on cost
/home//containers - my git repo with configs, sans passwords/keys
configs w/keys live in my password manager

Disaster recovery should be as simple as:

Copy my data from backup into /srv/nas
Clone my container repo
Copy env files to their respective locations
Run a script to get things set up

I use specific container versions, so I should get exactly the same setup.

I'm going to be reinstalling my NAS soon (boot drive is getting old), so we'll see how this process works, though I'll skip step 1 since I'm keeping the drives.