TCB13

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Upgrade/Replacement of NAS

Third, looking at Via’s AAC FAQ, license fees are due on “per unit” sale, and the term of the license is five years, with additional five years renewal. There never was a lifetime license for it.

Yes, that’s a scam. One thing is when you rent, lease or have hardware provided on a subscription basis, another entire different thing is when you buy hardware. Synology is just propagating this kind of BS by including AAC.

Up until now I’ve dealt with a few devices that included AAC and none of them suddenly became obsolete by the lack of license after 5 years.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Upgrade/Replacement of NAS

Because they shouldn’t sell hardware “for life” with an underlaying license that is only temporary. That doesn’t make sense. They’ve to make better agreements or pick other solutions.

TCB13 OP , 1 year ago to linux in Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux

Well if it makes you more comfortable let me tell you that the format of OnCalendar is the same, or very close. I bet that just by looking at the following you know what is does!

<span style="color:#323232;">[Unit]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Description=Logs some system statistics to the systemd journal
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Requires=myMonitor.service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Timer]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Unit=myMonitor.service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">OnCalendar=*-*-* *:*:00
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Install]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WantedBy=timers.target
</span>

TCB13 OP , 1 year ago to linux in Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux

systemd-kerneld 😜

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Upgrade/Replacement of NAS

As if anyone should be using RAID 5 or RAID 6: zdnet.com/…/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/ and linkedin.com/…/avoid-raid5-raid6-live-happy-life-…

Those setups are highly discouraged.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Upgrade/Replacement of NAS

Does FileBrowser support creating public links for sharing?

noted.lol/…/filebrowser-self-hosted-public-shares…

My issue with Syncthing is that doing partial sync is sort of a pain in the ass.

That’s like the ONLY feature everything is missing from Syncthing. Frankly I don’t get it, I just don’t understand why they don’t implement it. They’ve their ignore patterns that can essentially be leveraged to implement partial sync but they won’t just do it. forum.syncthing.net/t/…/16394

TCB13 OP , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux // Self-host more with less hardware

Ahaha you wish. nftables replaces iptables and it has already happened in Debian 11.

nftables adds a new tool, called nft, which replaces all other tools from iptables, arptables and ebtables. From an architectural point of view it also replaces those parts of the kernel that deal with run-time evaluation of the packet filtering rule set.

Read the complete explanation of the why is is happening here: …redhat.com/…/what-comes-after-iptables-its-succe…

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Upgrade/Replacement of NAS

I’m aware of that but what practical difference does it make? You buy one of those things and suddenly you got functionality because they weren’t able to properly negotiate lifetime licensing for their devices that are sold, not rented, not leased…

TCB13 OP , 1 year ago to linux in Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux

Systemd timers are way, way better than cron. Because can audit them, view when they last run, next expected run, can be set to persist with reboot or not, aggregate logs under journalctl, can do amazing things such as “x minutes after boot”, can be configured not to run again until the last run is complete etc… opensource.com/article/20/7/systemd-timers

TCB13 OP , 1 year ago to linux in Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux

chrony -> sd-timesyncd […] one less daemon

Thanks for pointing that out, it was out of place. :)

TCB13 , 1 year ago to linux in which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

Anything other than Debian or RedHat/CentOS/Fedora. Why? Every other distro bring nothing to the table. For a desktop Debian+flatpak will get you the latest apps and for servers Debian will be stable as a Linux can be. RedHat has its particular use cases.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Docker container reappears constantly after "rm" or "rm -f"

Solution: sudo rm -rf /. Reinstall Debian, never install Docker again. :)

TCB13 OP , 1 year ago to linux in Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux

Did a couple of times, no issues. Simply add KillSignal=SIGINT or ExecStop=/bin/kill -s SIGINT -$MAINPID & /bin/kill -s SIGINT -$MAINPID and it will work out.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Upgrade/Replacement of NAS

What I am not comfortable with is that that generation is already end of life

The thing is that those are very cheap as people want faster things for Windows desktops and as we both know Samba won’t ever saturate that CPU on a 1GbE to 2.5GbE link. If you can get a last-gen low power solution like an i3 in the same price ranges go for it and ignore my previous advice. But you know an i5-6500 or i5-7400 + motherboard + RAM for 70-80€ is a good deal and enough for the use case.

For 200€ I can get 4TB SSDs.

Sorry, my mistake. I meant 4TB.

Does BTRFS include Raid support?

Yes many possible configurations and snapshots. BTRFS also tends to be way more reliable than Ext4 and others when the hardware fails, you experience sudden power losses etc. More: linuxhint.com/set-up-btrfs-raid/

As fro Syncthing… I’ll have a look at that.

Syncthing + FileBrowser is a “killer” setup for a personal cloud. I’m even amazed you’ve never heard about / used Syncthing as it is very popular in self-hosting. You can also use it to sync your main NAS with the remote backup. Very reliable and easy to setup.

Docker is just nice and simple. I remember times when deploying software on a single server was hell on earth.

Never had that experience… if the software is properly done and you aren’t using a weird distro things should work out well. Eventually you can use LXC/LXD or even systemd containers to isolate problematic applications without having to deal with all the Docker overhead and mess.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Upgrade/Replacement of NAS

Another option, easier than rsync is simply use Syncthing to sync the main machine with the backup machine. No tunnels required and it has built in file versioning with a GUI.