Comment by srjilarious 8 hours ago
I just learned about the whole homelab thing a week ago; it's a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected. I'm planning to setup ProxMox today for the first time in fact and retire my Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well for last couple years.
I hadn't heard about mealie yet, but sounds like a great one to install.
Data Hoarding is a bit more involved than just a homelab. Don't want your data hoard to go down or missing, whole you're labbing new techs and protocols.
You should definitely try mealie yes. On top of a good way to host your own recipes, the entire thing just feels...really well put together?
I'm not even using the features beyond the recipes yet, but i'm already very happy that i can migrate my recipes from google docs to over there
I've had a ton of fun with CasaOS in the past few months. I don't mind managing docker-compose text files, but CasaOS comes with a simple UI and an "App Store" that makes the process really simple and doesn't overly-complicate things when you want to customize something about a container.
Proxmox is awesome! I've been running it for ~5 years and it's been absolutely stable and pleasant to run services on.
The Proxmox Backup Server is the killer feature for me. Incremental and encrypted backups with seamless restoration for LXC and VMs has been amazing.
My PBS server has 2 datasources - one local external drive & Backblaze B2. I snapshot to the local drive frequently throughout the day & B2 once in the evening.
Yeah I don't backup any of my media zpool. It can all be replaced quite easily, not worth paying for the backup storage.
I have Proxmox running on top of a clean Debian install on my NUC, I wanted to allow Plex to use the hardware decoding and it got a bit funny trying to do that with Plex running in a VM, so it runs on the host and I use VMs for other stuff
I have an Intel (12th Gen i5-12450H) mini-pc and at first had issues getting the GPU firmware loaded and working in Debian 12. However upgrading to Debian 13 (trixie) and doing apt update and upgrade resolved the issue and was able to pass the onboard Intel GPU through Docker to a Jellyfin container just fine. I believe the issue is related to older linux kernels and GPU firmware compatibility. Perhaps that’s your issue.
Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well
In my book, that’s a homelab, it's just a small one (an efficient one?...)