I bought a managed switch
Turns out, it’s bottom tier but has just enough features and fanless… :)
Update: Server Adventures
Reconstuction and Planning My home servers need some attention and this is my thought process.
The plex box I’ve noticed that my plex server has been running low on ram after deciding to deploy radarr and sonarr to help organize things. Between a small handful of docker apps, plex, and a 4GB transcoding ramdisk; things feel a little tight. I had to add some extra swap space to avoid crashing and wind up using almost 4GB of the 5ish GB it has total; I added a 4GB swap on top of the 1gig or so the ubuntu installer added or maybe I did.
My New Moto G6
A few weeks ago I bought a new phone, the Moto G6. It runs Android 9 and has a 8 core snapdragon cpu, 3gb of ram, 32gb of internal storage. All for like $80 on sale from TracFone.
I’ve got most of my apps installed, could be some I’m missing though. Far better than my old LG phone. :)
It seems to have some sort of oled display and depending on the app, black is really black.
Backing up a disk to another with rsync
Putting this here for future reference from future me if he thinks to look here. Heeey! It’sa me, your past. :)
Copied the contents of one disk formatted with XFS to another bigger disk with XFS using Rsync.
rsync -arvluht -pog -P /media/Source/ /media/Destination/
Breakdown of the switches;
-a for archive -r for recursive -v for verbose -l for links -u for update -h for human-readable -t for preserving times -p for preserving permissions -o to preserve ownership -g to preserve group -P to show progress
Trying out proxmox on my lab server
Yesterday I decided to try something different on my lab server. I just got tired of the limits of ESXI with it’s free license. Was gonna put it on another flash drive but after trying and experiencing the excruciatingly slow install of the Citrix Xenserver onto a flash drive only to be left with no webui to manage it, I ended up putting proxmox on the 1.2TB 4 disk RAID-10 array.