Today I set up my old laptop as a Debian server, hosting Immich (for photos), Nextcloud (for files), and Radicale (for calendar). It was surprisingly easy to do so after looking at the documentation and watching a couple videos online! Tomorrow I might try hosting something like Linkwarden or Karakeep.

What else should I self-host, aside from HA (I don’t have a smart home), Calibre (physical books are my jam), and Jellyfin (I don’t watch too many movies + don’t have a significant DVD/Blu-ray collection)?

I would like to keep my laptop confined to my local network since I don’t trust it to be secure enough against the internet.

edit: I forgot, I’m also hosting Tailscale so I can access my local network remotely!

  • sbird@sopuli.xyzOP
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    1 day ago

    How do I set up backups for Immich, Nextcloud, and Radicale? I see lots of different options, I can’t pick!

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
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      9 hours ago

      I only host Nextcloud in an old setup (read pure PHP, MariaDB, Apache - no docker, etc.)

      That server is set-up to be snapshotted daily. Also there’s a script running about 30 min before each snap shot that will also dump the database to disk (as otherwise the snapshot might contain a random state of the database). It’s not perfect, but it works - also because everything of this is done in the night, when I do not use the system, so chances are really low, that the snapshot of the disk and the database dump in it are not desynchronized too much.

      I do not know what’s the best practice for a modern Nextcloud setup with docker is or how to handle the other two…