Thanks for that Nextcloud tip!

For the containers, do you mean mounting them to a NAS? I already have them mounted locally on the VM so the files are easy to grab there, but I've never thought about mounting them on a NAS. I'll have to give that a think

You’re welcome

No not to NAS. To the local disk.

For example in Proxmox I have /media/ssd-storage/Containers/ where each subfolder is mounted to it’s VM (therefore isolated) and each VM’s docker-compose file brings in the volume mounts to it’s containers.

Then, all containers are backed up with a duplication of the ‘Containers’ folder. In a couple cases the container itself needs to be shut down in order to be backed up safely but those are few, far-between, and outdated.

Ah Gotcha, I'm already doing that in that case, I throw everything in /media/

Don't ask me why /media, I think I read a guide about 10 years ago for something in Linux that used /media and now I just default to that

I think Ubuntu used /media instead of /mnt. I also ended up using /media on all my Linux boxes after using Ubuntu foe a while. I’m also currently using /Volumes (mostly from services that were on OSX and configured before Docker was available).

Veeam WAS quite RAM heavy when it used Microsoft SQL, but they have updated it to PostgreSQL which has helped, and Veeam for Microsoft 365 uses a fair chunk too. But the reason it actually has 10GB of RAM is that it seems when restoring files through the Arq application, it caches to RAM, and having more RAM makes it much faster. I could probably move it down to 8GB no issue

Keep in mind that most of those containers are very light and are not really "Doing" anything, unlike everything in the Backup VM

> have a single wifi router and power everything through that and still have much faster bandwidth than the author does

I'm confused, what's faster than what?

Its really disturbing how whiney Europeans (I assume you are) are with their superiority complexes.

I don't even know why I'm replying to you, but here we go

So I should ditch all this and rely on cloud services I guess. Cloud services are hosted in magic land where they don't use any power, right? If you use any cloud services, you are just as bad as me.

I have 17kw of solar on the roof. As we type this, I'm exporting 10kw of power back to the grid. I generate enough solar to completely cover all of my electricity usage, and during the night when I'm pulling from the grid, my power plan is sourced 100% from wind or solar.

All of this is my hobby, but also helps me learn skills for my job. That job is 100% work from home, which means I don't drive pretty much at all. I'm sorry my F150 offends you, which has less than 10,000 miles on the clock despite being 5 years old. That same F150 also gets better miles per gallon than a lot of regular cars on the road. My wifes Ford Escape (A compact "SUV" if you can call it that" gets worse milage than my truck. But I'm sure if you saw a Ford Escape, you'd be fine with it right?

Where in the post did I say how much power all this uses? You said "power... so much power" yet you don't even know how much power it uses...

I won't even go into detail how I've removed over 1000sqft of concrete on my property, how I've planted an 800sqft native wildflower meadow, have a bat house, use rainwater for plants, etc etc. But no I'm just such a terrible American. Grow up.

I'm 100% with you. Would love to see photos of those meadow and bat house, they sound lovely.

Here are some images of the meadow: https://files.networkprofile.org/s/86FzBHYfNwHyXTY

Its not quite as green as that right now, since we have a pretty bad drought here in Houston, but it will come back.

I had to make the small fence as it just kept trying to spread out. The fence is made from scrap 2x4's ripped down the middle to make 2x2's, and the rails are old scrap cedar pickets pressure washed and ripped down

This is the seed mix: https://www.dkseeds.com/shop/flkbee-website-king-s-feed-the-...

I'll have to take some pictures of the bat house, maybe I should just make a post on all this, maybe that will please them

Well, its not really apples to apples, that is a 5G connection... Of course the speeds are bad and relatively expensive compared to fiber

Comcast is available, but it follows the same path as AT&T under the trees, so I figured that makes no sense

Also, the less money I give to Comcast the better.

Lol, I hear you on that. I’m fortunate to not have Comcast as my second option.

I bought the house for that little box!

If I hit it big, I'll make an apartment with an attached datacenter and a quarter rack available for colo per unit

Buy used off eBay 100%! Don't pay those prices

Even a few year old AP will work great. My R510 is pretty old, but works flawlessly

You know, I'd LOVE a model railway...