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So today after almost a year of learning what self hosting and what a nas and raid configuration was, I was to get a used hp prodesk 600 g6 mini and install zimaos on it. Zimaos really made things a lot simpler than I thought it was going to be. I was easily able to install portainer and immich and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.

I’ve actually made a goal now to use this for me to get used to it and since I already have a list of what I would like to self hosting for my parents as well as for myself, I’m going to take this as an opportunity to try to set everything up so I’m comfortable with it and when I’m ready to buy a nas for my parents and set it up for them, it won’t be hard. I will also learn how to do remote access and how to do it safely and maybe even try out different nas os to see which one I’m comfortable/like more.

Anyway I just wanted to say that I’m happy to be deep diving and this and can’t wait to learn and host more!!

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[–] Confining@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes backups backups backups, it will never leave me alone

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

My advice as someone who's server is so large backups aren't feasible at my price point. Ensure that things you care a lot about, photos, family videos, tax information, things that can't be replaced have a proper 3-2-1 backup solution and test it periodically. Nothing worse that putting all that effort into a backup then not being able to recover.

I do not recommend backing up media, like movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and music. Use a 2-1. Have two copies of the data with one offline. I have over 20Tb of high-res media and it would cost more than it's worth to me to backup that stuff. So I don't. I can just redownload The Lord of the Rings, I can't redownload the video my parents took of me in a childhood school play.