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I woke up to faulty internet and after some troubleshooting it turns out the root zfs dataset that OPNSense boots from got corrupted… PRO-TIP - Auto backup your OPNSense config to Google Drive, git, or nextcloud… But if you won’t then at least back up your OPNSense config somewhere everytime you update it. It’s too much to recount every issue, so here’s a bullet list what worked. On a fresh drive install OPNSense Plug in the old drive through a USB enclosure - now I’m not sure what would happen if you plugged it in along with the new drive and then booted up. Because both drives will have a zfs pool and the boot dataset is automounted at. My old pool was so it didn’t automount Because the old was corrupted I did this to mount it RO: -d is the zfs flag to import the pool by disk id, -N it to not mount any of the datasets (we need to change mountpoints) and the imports the pool with a new name Change the mountpoints for all the datasets to somewhere like Depending on the mount point you…

Amazon has crossed the line with me just one too many times now so we are looking to drop them like every other Big Tech provider…. However, one key feature of Amazon that has been so useful for us is Lists… We can just maintain a list for each of us and then family members can login anytime and check it out… This really alleviates any last minute gift idea stress right before a birthday or something. So I need a nice gift list service but I don’t want to be locked into one company (like a Target registry or something) and I’d like to host it myself The internets had a few options but nothing looked/felt like I wanted to I decided to build my own. The Frontend I have no idea how to do front end so stay tuned The Backend FastAPI for the win on this one… I followed a few examples online and what I was able to build in just a few minutes is pretty impressive thanks to the design of FastAPI. Some key features are: Auto doc generation Required typing (which makes #1 possible) Built-in api t…

My current homelab setup is not great but it works… Proxmox on PowerEdge R610 I boot off an SD card and have 1 SSD and 5 HDDs configured as a JBOD array using a Dell H700 SAS controller. I cannot boot from a disk using this controller and I can’t get the firmware configured in a way to allow it. So I have 1 SSD as a ZFS array that I’ve been putting my VM images on, and the 5 HDDs are passed through to a TrueNAS VM where I handle all the ZFS stuff there… kind of meta because I then attached those drives to Proxmox as a CIFS share. TrueNAS on dedicated box I have an on-prem backup that is just an old desktop running TrueNAS I regularly backup the 5 disk RAIDZ2 array from my Proxmox host (managed by a TrueNAS VM) to this backup box Currently there is nothing else running on this machine since it’s my “backup” Jellyfin I was HWA for Jellyfin, but hardware passthrough on the R610 is finicky or broken so Jellyfin is running on an Ubuntu host. I could put UBuntu on the R610 and give up “true…