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submitted 3 months ago by Dust0741@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Its new homelab time. And with that, potentially a new OS time too.

I currently am very happy with Debian and Docker. The only issue is I am brand new to using data redundancy. I have a 2 bay NAS I'll use, and I want the two HDDs to be in raid 1.

Now I could definitely just use ZFS or BTRFS with Debian, and be able to use Docker just like I do currently.

Or I could use a dedicated NAS OS. That would help me with the raid part of this, but a requirement is Docker.

Any recommendations?

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[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

I run Debian with zfs. Really simple to set up and has been rock solid for it too. As far as I can tell all the issues I've had have been my fault.

ZFS looks like it uses a lot of RAM, but you can get away without it if you need too. It's basically extra caching. I was thrilled to use it as an excuse to upgrade my ram instead.

Mdadm has a little more setup then zfs, as far as I'm concerned. You need to set your own scrubbing up whereas zfs schedules it's own for you. You need to add monitoring stuff for both though.

I've considered looking into the various operating systems designsd for this, but they just don't seem to be worth the effort of switching to me.

[-] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I can also recommend zfs on debian. Even if you only using two disks you will be still protected from bit rot.

[-] Dust0741@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Any recomended monitoring solutions? Or just proxmox and grafana?

[-] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I can recommend dockprom. It comes with grafana preconfigured.

[-] Dust0741@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oh cool!

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