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[Question] If you want to have two environments (lets call it Sandbox and Production), and you want to have a NAS in Production (Terramaster, Ugreen, etc), what do you put in your Sandbox environment? by Campers in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh... That sounds risky!

But, with no experience doing it, I may be missing something.

Have you had no issues with this approach?

[Question] If you want to have two environments (lets call it Sandbox and Production), and you want to have a NAS in Production (Terramaster, Ugreen, etc), what do you put in your Sandbox environment? by Campers in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No. I really need Production to be stable because other people will be using it. And I do not want my own playing around to cause issues.

I am really considering both @[email protected] idea of a smaller NAS from the same company and @[email protected] idea of just creating a new volume in the same NAS.

[Question] If you want to have two environments (lets call it Sandbox and Production), and you want to have a NAS in Production (Terramaster, Ugreen, etc), what do you put in your Sandbox environment? by Campers in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That is an interesting proposition. And it is a bit cheaper then buying a second NAS while still possibly catching many issues.

Have you done this, out of curiosity?

[Question] If you want to have two environments (lets call it Sandbox and Production), and you want to have a NAS in Production (Terramaster, Ugreen, etc), what do you put in your Sandbox environment? by Campers in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Good point. I need to consider doing this to make troubleshooting easier.

Also curious if someone had any RAID related issues. Which you will not catch with a 1 or 2 disk NAS since you cannot have RAID 5 there.

[Question] If you want to have two environments (lets call it Sandbox and Production), and you want to have a NAS in Production (Terramaster, Ugreen, etc), what do you put in your Sandbox environment? by Campers in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I was not clear on why I wanted a production environment. The reason is that I want enough stability in it to be used by family and friends. Preferably without breakages. Immediate usages will be as shared storage, e-book management, game centre to run Minecraft for my kind who lives far away from me., etc. Also, the list of services I will make available in production will vary throughout time.

This is why I mentioned a NAS in production. So that the hardware storage just works. But, at the same time, I really do not have the budget to buy two similar NAS and test things in Sandbox.

I really get your point about having two different envs if I want to have perfect stability. But I was trying to figure out if I could make the Sandbox env a little bit less costly but go 80% of the way in terms of catching issues before breaking Production.

I may just buy a lower model of the same brand but lets see if other people suggest another approach.

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[Question] If you want to have two environments (lets call it Sandbox and Production), and you want to have a NAS in Production (Terramaster, Ugreen, etc), what do you put in your Sandbox environment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am trying to plan my home lab to satisfy two different needs:

I want a stable environment where I will put a relatively expensive NAS and maybe some other Zima boards.
I also want to try new versions and configurations in an env where I can break stuff BEFORE trying things on my Production environment. I would also like to use that environment to try other things like playing with Kubernetes, Docker, Iceberg, etc. I am a backend software engineer so this is very useful to me. Besides being fun.

So, I am just trying to gather ideas on how to configure this both in terms of software and hardware.

SQLSeal - SQL Engine for Your Obsidian Vault by Campers in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

There is another issue with DataView. You, very quickly bump into slow queries in a medium size vault . I call having 4600 notes a medium size note, to be clear.