HIPAA (not hippa) is not even remotely applicable.
Cheap and easy are in opposition here. Which matters more? There are symptom and medication apps already that would be easy and available right now. And you don’t need to do tech support for family.
Let’s be honest - in this community NAS means “my do-everything server that may have a RAID and probably also shares storage”.
All my systems are backed up with “rsnapshot” to a file server. File server is backed up to backblaze with duplicacy.
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I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?
Only you can answer that - what is your risk tolerance for data loss?
You’re not going to run deepseek r1 without GPUs (plural).
I’m also considering UnRaid instead of Proxmox for a NAS OS.
NAS just has no meaning anymore?
Ah - I gotcha. That’s some terrible luck with drives.
This is why I do my first-level of backups with rsnapshot. It backs up to the plain filesystem using rsync and uses hard-links to de-dup between backups. No special filesystem, no encryption, restore is just an ‘rsync’ away.
Is it? I guess I don’t know the difference… I installed mine myself but my system is also dead simple - only 2 wires. My first thermostat was just a bi-metallic strip. 😀
I believe so, my system is baseboard so I didn’t use a fan. There is a fan control option on the device. The instructions say it can do auto, on, of, circ.
https://digitalassets.resideo.com/damroot/Original/10011/33-00181EFS.pdf
More details here:
I’ve got a couple Honeywell T6 z-wave thermostats that work great and didn’t cost a lot. I control them through home assistant with some custom code to set them on a schedule, but they can also still be operated manually if needed.
I’d highly recommend not doing that. A smart thermostat is much easier and going to be a lot more reliable. And it won’t stop working if your server goes down.
Yeah I figure it’s the sort of thing that requires some firmware support at least.
One thing I’ve always liked about using laptops as servers more than the battery has been the built-in display and keyboard. 😁
Ahh, okay - it is a different chemistry. I wasn’t sure - thanks!
battery of this machine is toast (holds up for half an hour or less)
Fair.
as someone mentioned in another comment: unattended laptops with batteries can be actually bad. Batteries on certain cases can leak and cause fires, so for me, if it can work without it great, otherwise I have to drop the idea
I’m not clear on how a UPS would be different in this regard. They both have high-capacity batteries that need monitoring. Unless the UPS is using a different chemistry?
If the laptop has a way to limit charging to, say, 70% in order to not turn into a spicy pillow, it would be viable.
Firstly - I love the phrase “spicy pillow”.
Secondly - It would probably depend on the laptop and its battery health. But also the OS can limit charging I believe? I haven’t looked too far into how it works but I’ve got my laptop setup to only charge to 90% because I’m nearly always plugged in. I don’t know if that relies on any hardware/firmware options though.
It’s a laptop… One of the benefits is that it already has a battery, no?
I would definitely scale things out slowly. While the NAS will eventually be the cornerstone of your setup it will be an investment. You could also try setting up a cheap server as a stand-alone to get the feel for running applications. Maybe even as cheap as a Raspberry PI or small single-board system. Some of them have pretty decent specs at very affordable costs. Such a system could go on to serve simple services in your final architecture (DHCP, DNS, etc.).
There are sometimes ways to upgrade a RAID later. In one scenario I replaced the drives one at a time with larger drives and created a second RAID on the same disks (in a second partition). Wasn’t a great idea perhaps - but it worked! I just expanded my LVM pool to the new RAID and was off to the races. I’m sure performance was hit with two RAIDs on the same disks - but it did the job and worked well enough for me. 😉
I’m not as familiar with zfs to know what options it has for expansion. With MD these days I think you can just fail and replace each disk one-by-one and expand the raid to the new size once they’re all replaced. MD can be pretty picky about drives having exactly the same number of sectors though so care must be taken to use the same disks or partition a bit smaller than the drive… Waiting for each disk to sync can take ages but it’s possible. There may be other options for ZFS (scaling with more disks maybe?).
Good luck with your project!
Ah - I get that. You have my sympathies.
A personal project like that would be a great way to train/get experience then. But do realize that it becomes a lot more complicated once you have people other than yourself relying on your application. Suddenly up-time becomes very important and up-time is hard. End-users, even friendly ones, get very frustrated when you say “try now please” a lot. They’ll just stop using it.