I recommend installing calibre web on a home server, installing koreader on the Kobo, and accessing your eBook library over your WiFi and OPDS.

Koreader is such a good reading experience, I never want to go back to stock firmware (well, except for the dictionaries maybe, those are better.)

I've read good things about migadu. Haven't used it myself.

It's going to be powerful by every imperial, too.

Gimp might be able to perform that little logo-transformation favour for you libre of charge, but at least give it a call after for heaven's sake.

Storage box is self-serviced storage on a single server, as far as I'm aware. If you need replication, you need to rent storage at a second location and do it yourself.

You should start training in secret immediately! Stages are easy enough to come by once you're ready.

A gas pedal!

I am trying to learn in a safe environment without breaking my existing network. It's not actually a WAN, except from the firewall's point of view.

That makes sense. If you start out without any of those I'm sure it's night and day.

Thanks for the additional input!

The killer feature for me is my networked scanner scanning directly to the paperless consume samba share and the documents just popping up in the inbox fully OCRd and pre-categorised. Pretty magical.

NB, the docs make it sound like a proper DB is optional, but it's really not. Performance was iffy for me with sqlite but is rock solid with Postgres.

I have been researching the same question a few days ago and am currently running > badblocks -b 4096 -c 8 -svw /dev/sda on my old NAS drive. It makes a few passes writing the disk full of 0xaa and 0x55 and then reading it back. I have my disk in a USB2.0 SATA adapter on a raspberry pi 3 and it's currently at 70% of pass #2 after 100 hours, so it sure is slow, but I don't mind.

Does anybody have pointers how to compile it? The readme is a little lacking...