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Look into StorJ, they work out of the box with truenas and the backups are done with restic, encrypted by default. And it's quite cheap, I pay less than 5 eur but I don't backup there my multimedia (not worth it and my bro has the same anyway). I backup over a terabyte. I think it will always be more expensive to build your own backup server than to use what is available on the market even with subscription. And again you can encrypt so it's completely safe.

I am backing my proxmox to my truenas, there is a good vid from Lawrence systems about it, but they are two separate devices in my case. In theory you could use your pc for the backups, depending what os you use, how often are you using the pc etc. You could simply use syncthing, restic or you could spin up lxc with proxmox backup server. It doesn't matter it doesn't run 24/7, it has to be running only when regular backup is done, maybe at times you know you are always at the pc.

I see thanks. I think it should be important for everyone, because companies will use your private data to get money (sell them to data brokers, advertise based on the data, etc) and governments may change and may use your data against you in the future, USA is a good example of how things can get very wrong real fast.

Is it e2e encrypted? They say they encrypt on transfer and at rest but it seems that the at rest is encrypted on server. And they don't say who is keys holder. That is sus. And it means if eu asks for your data, they will get it because the cloud provider is obliged to.

1. What do you need? Ask yourself what do you need first that will help you decide
2. Hardware - buy second hand 2017 - 2018 (office) pc - dell, fujitsu, hp for ~ 80 eur - clean it! Re-paste processor and buy ssd.
3. Either instal clean debian, prxmox, or some nas software. If you go with e.g. trueNAS you need to decide if you want to invest into proper nas hard drives. They cost a lot but last for ages.
4. Setup your fist apps - treat the beginning as a test. Its a test machine and environment, feel free to try stuff, break stuff and document it, especially what you like and want to keep.
5. After a while, when you feel like you are not experimenting as much and you know what you like about what you have, backup what you want to keep, and start clean - now use your documentation. This step is optional - depends on how much you were messing around but can be pivotal in order to get stable environment.
6. Next steps will write themselves. In fact you will have so much you would want to try that you won't know where to start.
7. You are welcome

You are welcome 😊 I am using it for several months now and it is great. The only think I want to figure out in the future is how to do it so that it rotate some servers.

This is what you need: https://github.com/alexmaisa/tailscale-protonvpn-exitnode

I was also enjoying my stable homelab until... well lets just say I got cheap parts here, nice stuff there and now I am building myself a new system and I started by stripping a case I got for 20 bucks and totally spray painting it, got some nice black and white cables, wanna display my nas this time instead of hiding it in the cupboard. After that I will put in the parts I got and then I need to migrate everything from the old nas (well hopefully I just put the drives in and it works). Soooo... Yeah 😀

By the way one more thing why you want to switch to Gadgetbridge is to stop firmware update, because at one point, the enshittification update will come. Sadly, too late for me, my gps went from locking within seconds to locking within the next 30 minutes :(

Okay I just wrote basically the same post 😀

Exactly. It's simple, it integrates with home assistant and I have a few images that I like to choose when to do the update, so its perfect for me :)

If anyone is interested in just a simple image updates monitoring, check out cup.I know its not exactly what you want (it doesn't do the update), but I stumbled on it quite by accident and I like the simplicity.