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I wanted to shared my enthusiasm, which makes me feel like a little boy (despite me being 50+) fascinated by how such complex systems can be managed so easily by novices. I started using Proxmox recently. I had a machine running one VM with various docker images installed. But NVMe was tiny. So I setup another node and got it to share the same NFS share on the NAS, where I had saved full backups of the VM. Once added the NFS share to the new node (with a bigger ZFS local partition) I simply restored the VM from the NFS share that had been backed up from the original node. It seemlessly imported and started. Then I cloned on the new node so that I could get it on the new ZFS partition. Now the next task is to get a bigger NVMe on the original machine, install Proxmox from scratch, and add to cluster so that it shared the backup NFS share. I just then need to understand how to get HA up and running so that VMs are always synced flawlessly. Proxmox is super brilliant. I feel like I have a data center at home :-) I could not imagine this system was so flexible and relatively easy to use. The people that deliver and contribute to this stuf are super cool. A couple of proxmox nodes, a Truenas scale NAS and a good backup strategy and your data is really safe and rock solid ... I hope :-)

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[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a kid I always thought the basement model train set ups were cool. Then as I grew into a young man, I thought it was kind of weird that some grandpa had a train set in his basement he played with. Then as I got older, it started making more sense to me. I don't have a train set in my basement, but selfhosting I would imagine, is along the same lines at least for me.

[โ€“] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is. Do you know how I know? It pisses off my wife to no end the ridiculous amount of time I spend testing services to self-host ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ahhhh the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). I don't have those issues, so I'm free to run amuck as I please.