Yes i use it for Docker and to have as a glacier/archive storage (3rd backup for important stuff).
Home Servers\Homelabs: NAS, Plex, & Everything Else
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Had Syncthing running and was using the server as the main hub to sync notes across all my devices. Something broke in my DNS settings tho and I wasn't able to resolve it after 2-3 hours of troubleshooting.
Gonna wipe and reinstall since I can quickly recreate all the changes I made. I'm relatively familiar w/ the CLI but this time I'm also going to install a (light) desktop environment.
It's kind of a Debbie Downer since it seemed more tech-savvy using only the CLI, but I ran into issues requiring GUIs. For example, to get full articles in my RSS feed required interacting w/ a GUI which my device doesn't have. I started going down the hole of X-forwarding et al (which I think is what broke my server lol) and then just decided to wipe the whole thing and start fresh. I'll be backing up more regularly moving forward too fwiw
But yeah, w/ the Desktop Environment enabled, I think there's a way to avoiding loading the installed Desktop Environment unless prompted to save resources, so I'm going to go that route most of the time. My chip is 11th Gen, so it's probably overkill but I'm a penny-pincher by nature lol
FatherSimp
Enough white hoes to last me thru ATL
Can't go wrong with the good ole wipe and reinstall. If you ever need a GUI for a headless server you can always install Cockpit. It's a web based app that allows for full server administration. Red Hat has that preinstalled on their OS.
Repped. Just watched a video from a breh breaking it down.
It doesn't quite fix what I was looking for, but it did make me realize I need to redefine my issue better. I was having trouble connecting to localhost on a headless server which kicked everything off. I created an ssh tunnel correctly to configure syncthing but may have broken something when I tried it for the RSS feed thingy.
I just did some more googles and think I found another simple solution so I'll be giving a headless server another shot
EDIT: FML, wiped and reinstalled Debian yet I'm getting the same errors as soon as the install finished and I boot into Debian.
Basically pings = temporary failures, and apt commands are erroring out. I know I'm experiencing network issues, but I've already tried the top 4-5 stackoverflow suggestion like etc/resolve.conf, editing hostname/hosts, etc.
I couldn't even get far enough to install sudo
Back to the drawing board I go. Gonna have to check the BIOS to make sure nothing is triggering from there too
Basically pings = temporary failures, and apt commands are erroring out. I know I'm experiencing network issues, but I've already tried the top 4-5 stackoverflow suggestion like etc/resolve.conf, editing hostname/hosts, etc.
I couldn't even get far enough to install sudo
Back to the drawing board I go. Gonna have to check the BIOS to make sure nothing is triggering from there too
FatherSimp
Enough white hoes to last me thru ATL
EDIT: FML, wiped and reinstalled Debian yet I'm getting the same errors as soon as the install finished and I boot into Debian.
Basically pings = temporary failures, and apt commands are erroring out. I know I'm experiencing network issues, but I've already tried the top 4-5 stackoverflow suggestion like etc/resolve.conf, editing hostname/hosts, etc.
I couldn't even get far enough to install sudo
Back to the drawing board I go. Gonna have to check the BIOS to make sure nothing is triggering from there too
Can you ping your default gateway?
Had to google what that meant and then ask chatGPT how to do it lol. It's working on my desktop and blank on my server. Gonna start digging around some more there
SN: I tried
Bash:
lspci | grep NetEDIT: Problem 'resolved' in that I wiped + installed Debian again, but this time w/ a wired connection. Should probably be my permanent solution anyways since I read somewhere that my server's IP address (or is it DNS?) should be static anyways.
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Allen Poe
All Star
been running a little jellyfin server for the past couple months, and one of the HDDs just died a couple days ago 
Got a QNAP NAS for my video production.
Has about 90TB of storage.
Been really reliable and has improved my workflow exponentially.
Has about 90TB of storage.
Been really reliable and has improved my workflow exponentially.
Anyone use Unraid? I’m setting it up and it says it’s going to take 12 hours to sync the drives.
Never used it, but that's not an unreasonable time.
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