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First home server advice (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Hey everyone, I'm planning on setting up my first home server this year. Going to use an old Dell Optiplex with a couple 4tb SSD's.

I only need two services running. Jellyfin and immich. I've tested this out in a debian netinstall VM and it works.

Just looking for helpful hints or advice etc. I'm a long time Linux and BSD user and I'm tempted to try it out using Alpine Linux or even NetBSD (my daily driver os) but I thought I'd be sensible and go with Debian for.... Stability?

Anyway, immich is run in a container whereas jellyfin has a binary install. Apparently you can run jellyfin in a container also, not sure I really need to tho?

Thank you for any hints or advice.

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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I would suggest giving Proxmox a go and virtualise your VMs, as you can easily make snapshots and recover if something goes south.

You can also check https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ containing easy deployable scripts to make your life easier.

I would also try to run everything out of Docker compose and create a repo containing all configuration files.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    This. ProxMox will save you many times over while you are learning. It makes it so easy to backup and restore, try out new projects in a sandbox, and much much more.

    I credit ProxMox with making me bolder about what I wanted to accomplish and having the courage and time to take risks while knowing I could always restore from backup in an instant.

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