Selfhost a home-server with homed and OpenVFS?
from ratatouille@feddit.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 May 08:10
https://feddit.org/post/29249227

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/29249226

OpenVFS and Systemd-Homed possible?

I’m into selfhosting and Im looking for a way to centralize the Userhomes and have a better Backup of these files.

The idea is to use a virtual filesystem to sync needed data to the client PC and have Homed to encrypt userdata and store the data on server.

That way I do not have to backup the client PCs.

What do you think? And are there any working examples out there?

#selfhosted

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greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo on 01 May 08:23 next collapse

slop graphic plus systemd

this can gargle my ballsack.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 01 May 09:44 collapse

Why is good old NFS not a viable option? I think homed is something that nobody asked for and it’s basically unused. But I might be wrong.

ratatouille@feddit.org on 01 May 09:57 collapse

All family member I support and provide with services use a Laptop. They are connected over wireguard. Solutions that depends on Network connections will not work.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 01 May 10:30 collapse

Then I suspect homed will not really help. Something like syncthing is probably the way to go.

hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world on 01 May 10:51 collapse

I second syncthing as a solution.

I personally use an smb server and tail scale client + Headscale and then those smb files are locally backed up to a different drive / different PCs that remain in the network, but that doesn’t automatically sync and instead works by connecting to the server directly.

What you’re describing sounds like a solution that automatically resynchronizes on connection, and that means you’re looking for versioning / sync, thus probably syncthing is the easiest.