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Paperless-NGX on Docker

Posted on May 8, 2024 by michael

This should be easy, since paperless very wisely provides pre-made docker images for you. The problem is that they aren’t complete unless you’re running absolutely bog standard and not so secure. There are others out there who have published their own experiences and I’ll add to the pile since I didn’t find what I was …

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A NOOB sets up TrueNAS

Posted on April 25, 2024 by michael

The choice to go with TrueNAS Scale as the bare metal system was made based on a bunch of reading online and in the end a bad experience with a failed disk with TrueNAS Scale virtualized on proxmox. I’m guessing that setup could have been made to work but I’ve been doing this as a …

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Docker Compose and the danger of copying existing configurations…

Posted on March 9, 2024 by michael

So, I have this docker server running a bunch of services through Traefik. This is working well for me as the services are picked up by traefik based on labels in the docker-compose for each app (instead of setting things up on the traefik side explicitly). Setting up a new app is painless with respect …

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ProjectSend as Docker

Posted on March 3, 2024 by michael

The projectsend page at LinuxServer.io is great but missing something… like the database config. You CAN stand up a database for this and other services but wanting my docker compose files to create complete working applications, I’m happy to spend the memory and CPU on yet another database instance just for this docker container. There’s …

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Moving /var on debian vm to a SMB share (hint… don’t do it)

Posted on February 4, 2024 by michael

Now that the drive has been shared to this VM, I had this idea that I’d move /var to this drive. The theory being that it will just work and var will have this huge space to work with (2 or 4 TB depending on the drive I’ve connected). Looks like there’s a challenge with this idea …

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Adding a zfs disk as SMB Share on a Proxmox host

Posted on February 2, 2024 by michael

UPDATE: I’ve abandoned this setup. Despite the fact that this works here, later it is a nightmare to deal with permissions. Trying to get anything to run on docker on this setup is beyond my capability or patience to figure out. If I was more patient it might work from a NAS setup on the …

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FIM for immich servers

Posted on January 11, 2024 by michael

So, I have an IMMICH server and I found a bunch of stuff in the uploads folder that looks like it’s probably bad images that didn’t make and other chaff. I wanted to have look to make sure the images actually made it (compare what I’m seeing that’s broken and stuck in uploads with what I …

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Learning Docker, traefik and backing things up on a Proxmox host

Posted on January 7, 2024 by michael

Beginning to build a homelab has been an experience. Picking the underlying system on which to build took way too long. But now that I’ve settled on something (proxmox with a simple VM host for Docker, no portainer, k8s, no NAS. As few layers as possible for now) progress is being made.  I started by setting up a …

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A noob sets up Proxmox 8.0

Posted on July 17, 2023 by michael

2023-12-28: UPDATE the second: much battling with TrueNAS ensued and I simply don’t have enough understanding to troubleshoot all the layers involved in TrueNAS. After not being able to get anything that I wanted to work (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden) I gave up and ignored the whole thing for a while. I realized that I need to start very …

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Converting a Trail-a-bike to a Bicycle Cargo Trailer

Posted on August 6, 2022 by michael

Leave your earwax alone…

Posted on August 29, 2008 by michael

Guidelines have just been published in the US on earwax.  Basically, leave it alone, it serves an important biological function and all the fiddling folks generally do to remove it often just causes it to become impacted. If you wear a hearing aid or something else that is likely to cause impaction, visit a doctor …

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Dr Horrible…

Posted on July 17, 2008 by michael

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