I personally think of a small DIY rack stuffed with commodity HDDs off Ebay with an LVM spanned across a bunch of RAID1s. I don't want any complex architectural solutions since my homelab's scale always equals 1. To my current understanding this has little to no obvious drawbacks. What do you think?
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.
No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports.
Resources:
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
Backups... with LVM, if you're trying to do a full system backup (ie with clonezilla, etc) then you have to backup the whole thing - you can't backup just 1 drive.
I have a media server with 2x 2TB HDDs and 1x SSD in a LVM, split into Music, Video, TV... and the OS ... and I can backup the individual files of course, but I can't backup just the OS drive.
btrfs didn't exist when I created it, but I use it on my NAS and it's great.
I'll be rebuilding my media server one day and change LVM to btrfs.