Self-hosted backups only work if you can actually restore them. Many homelab setups skip restore testing because it feels tedious, but that is exactly how silent data loss happens. A backup job can report success every day and still fail when you need it most. Restoring backups regularly is the only way to confirm your … Read more
If your homelab stores media, VM disks, backups, and datasets across a mix of USB drives and random disks, you’ve probably already experienced the pain of rebuilding after a drive failure. TrueNAS Scale consolidates all of that into one ZFS-based storage appliance with a web UI, SMB/NFS/iSCSI shares, and built-in snapshot replication. Why TrueNAS Scale … Read more
If you run a Proxmox homelab, the biggest risk isn’t hardware failure — it’s data loss. One misconfigured zfs destroy or failed VM update can wipe months of work. A Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) protects every VM, container, and dataset with efficient deduplication, compression, and incremental backups. Why PBS Instead of rsync or snapshots Proxmox … Read more