The easiest I’ve ever used is https://localsend.org/

Very simple, just open it on both computers, select the file and click the other computer.

As I remember ZFS did recently just add the ability to grow an array, but it’s not seamless and wastes space because of some limitations with it. You also need to learn the CLI procedures to do it without breaking something, vs just clicking a button on a webUI.

ZFS also recently had a major data loss bug so I’m not sure safer is accurate.

I do use ZFS on my servers, I’m not actually an unraid user myself. But managing ZFS is not easy and takes a lot of time to learn.

Lots of backup software out there, I use a mix of Veeam Endpoint, Restic w/ Backblaze B2, and iDrive.

Are you trying to add it to a VM or a CT?

You can bind mount a folder on the host into a CT: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container#_bind_mount_points

For a VM you have to either add a virtual disk image on the external drive (will be fixed size, cannot use existing data), or share the folder on the host via NFS and mount it in the VM with the NFS client.

Unraid can use randomly sized disks, and allows expansion of an array by adding more disks. Something that traditional RAID doesn’t do.

It’s more like Synology but on your own hardware, much more user friendly for people that don’t have the experience (or time) to set it up the hard way.

It’s much simpler/easier to use, and supports expanding storage by adding more drives. More like your typical user friendly NAS like Synology.

TrueNAS can give you almost the same end result (minus being able to expand storage easily), but just takes a lot more experience and knowledge to pull it off.

I’m just impressed an SD card in a Pi lasted since 2017 without losing all your data on its own.

For the future the general guideline is 3 copies of your data at minimum, so definitely set up some backups.

Yeah they don’t mention it at all which is a bit concerning.

They’ve gotta make money somehow.

Having a bunch of intentionally out of date systems seems like a bad idea though.

Very odd, I think something else is going on not related to LXC/Proxmox. I’ve got LXC containers with external mounts and internal storage and haven’t seen any data loss over the years they’ve been running.

That’s pretty weird, where were the files stored that went missing? Just in your home folder?

Definitely recommend setting up regular daily backups, you can use the built in proxmox backup system, or run whatever tool you want inside each VM/CT.

Finding throughput data is difficult though, basically anything will support like 500Mbps, but hitting 1-2Gbps consistently with internet downloads or transfers crossing VLANs seems a lot tougher.

I’ve run Opnsense for quite a few years now, haven’t really had any issues with it.

I’d like to try OpenWRT and move to a nice low power router, but figuring out what hardware is supported is hard, as just “it runs openwrt” isn’t good enough when hardware acceleration often doesn’t work and stuff like that. Overall just too confusing for me to bother with finding hardware that will handle at least 3 Gbps throughput.

VyOS looks interesting but CLI only sounds super rough, I don’t really understand how I would do stuff like see DNS blocklist stats and easily whitelist by clicking on a blocked host, or add a static IP by clicking on the MAC address and that sort of thing.

Anything based on KVM does great

Proxmox

Best option is to delay docker startup until the mounts are ready.

It’s not too different from ESXi, things are just named differently in the webUI.

If you’re running a basic linux install you can use KVM for some VMs. Or use Proxmox for a good ESXi replacement.

docker rm removes the container and everything inside it.

If you have any bind mounts or volumes with settings stored in there, you’ll need to remove those as well.

The biggest problem is you have to set up every device independently with accounts, senders, signatures, and have one device online all the time to apply rules. It’s a lot of work to keep 3 mail clients all set up the same. Especially when clients all have their own bugs (ie; thunderbird has a CalDAV bug that makes it forget your password).

We need essentially self hosted gmail, where you have a web client for PC use and an app for mobile, mail is processed server-side, and settings are all automatically the same across clients.

Do you have a client you like for desktop? Thunderbird is not great, it’s slow and buggy.