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  • I do restore my VMs to deplicate VMs to test from time to time (it’s pretty easy with Proxmox) but I use Restic for data backups which encrypts the data before uploading it, so one should restore a backup to a different folder to ensure the data integrity and that you didn’t forget your keys ahah

    You don’t have to do it every week or month, but it’s worth doing it a few times a year or when you change something!




  • banana1@lemmy.catohomelab@lemmy.mlPi or Nuc
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    They are Ultra Small Form Factors PCs from the big brands. Lenovo ThinkCenter Tiny, HP EliteDesk/ProDesk Mini and Dell Optiplex Micro. They are small, quiet, they don’t pull a lot of power and they are not too expensive when you get second-hand ones that are decomissioned from business environments.

    The only thing is that they don’t have a lot of room for expansion/storahe. Some some have 1x M.2 port for NVMe + 1x 2.5" slot, some have 2x M.2 ports. Most don’t have PCie ports (apart a few Tinys) but if you want affordable nodes, they can be great!

    Edit: you can read more here https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/


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    I decided to go with Tiny/Mini/Micros personally. It consumes more than a Pi but it’s also more powerful. I can find second-hand TMMs locally with 8th gen Intel i5 for almost the same price as a Pi kit (Some Single Board Computers looks affordable, but you often need to add storage, a power brick, an enclosure, which can add up quickly!)

    I use TMMs with a mix of 6th-gen and 8th-gen Intel i5. The 6th gen are decent for my needs, but the >7th-gen’s iGPU supports more codecs, which is useful if you want to stream HEVC. i5-8500T also have 2 more cores than i5-6500T!

    Edit: those TMMs are used in a lot of businesses and often replaced every 3-4 years. They may be slightly more power hundry than newer hardware, but I like to think I am saving them from being e-waste!


  • Personally I do:

    • Daily snapshots of my data + Daily restic backup on-site on a different machine
    • Daily VM/containers snapshot locally and on a different machine, keeping at least 2 monthly, 2 weekly and 2 daily backups
    • Weekly incremental data backup in an immutable B2 bucket, with a new bucket every month and a 6 month immutability (so data can’t be changed/erased for 6 month)
    • Weekly incremental data backup on an other off-site machine
    • Monthly (but I should start doing it weekly) backup of important data (mainly documents and photos) on removable medias that I keep offline in a fire-proof safe

    Maybe it’s overkill, maybe it’s not enough, I’ll know when something fail and I am screwed, ahah

    As a note, everybody should test/check their backup frequently. I once had an issue after changing an IP address and figured out half my backups where not working 6 month later…





  • Mopidy (and LogitechMediaServer for that matter) will obviously let you stream local music or use other plugins (like TuneIn or other streaming platforms) but what really didn’t work for me with librespot was the way it works when having multiple people using it.

    Arriving home to my SO listening to music and needing to connect spotify to librespot, select join (vs take over), then stopping the music was what I didn’t like much. I feel like queues are also not the easiest thing to handle on spotify

    That being said, I prefered browsing/searching on spotify and I like the fact that we didn’t have to use only one of our account to stream (so Daily Mixes on my account were affected by everything that was streamed for example)

    I honnestly didn’t find a perfect solution yet, so I am open to ideas!



  • If it wasn’t the fact that I always had iasues with spotify on LMS/SqueezeBox, I would still use it today. Songs stopping and/or randomly skipping a few times per hour killed my experience

    I started using Mopidy with Snapcast. My only issue so far is Iris’s spotify search that’s a bit of a mess

    Edit: I know the fix would be to stop using spotify ahah