Backup and Disaster Recovery for Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Tdarr, Prowlarr, and SABnzbd
A practical disaster recovery guide for backing up the important details of a Plex and Arr homelab without trying to duplicate the entire media library. Rights and lawful use: Back up Plex, Arr, SABnzbd, Prowlarr, and Tdarr configuration only for systems and media workflows you are authorized to operate. A recovery archive should preserve legitimate […]
Ubiquiti Site Magic Routing: A No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to Routes, Route Injection, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network Fabric Design
Site Magic is one of those UniFi features that feels easy until the first routing problem shows up. The tunnel says it is connected. Both sites look healthy. You can see the remote gateway. Then the actual server, printer, backup target, or management page still does not work. That is when the uncomfortable truth appears: […]
Building a Network Digital Twin Workflow
A network digital twin is useful when it models topology, intent, policy, dependencies, and change impact. Here is a practical workflow for using it safely.
Reverse Proxy for Media Apps: Nginx Proxy Manager, SSL, Access Lists, and Security
Keep Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, SABnzbd, Tdarr, NAS administration, and the Nginx Proxy Manager dashboard private. Use LAN or VPN access by default. Add a reverse proxy only for a hostname that has a real remote-user requirement, and keep application authentication, patching, isolation, backups, and logging behind it. Rights and lawful use: This reverse-proxy workflow assumes […]
Homelab DNS Guide: Local Names, Ad Blocking, and Reliability
A practical homelab DNS design for local names, ad blocking, split DNS, redundant resolvers, VPN clients, and safe internal naming.
Campus Segmentation Design: From VLANs to Unified Fabric
Campus segmentation should evolve from VLAN sprawl toward a hierarchy of VRFs, virtual networks, SGTs, and group-based policy that operations teams can actually manage.
Plex + Tdarr GPU Strategy: Sharing NVIDIA GPUs Without Hurting Playback
A detailed guide to sharing NVIDIA GPUs between Plex and Tdarr with worker limits, peak-hour scheduling, driver verification, nvidia-patch checks, and safe transcode testing. Rights and lawful use: Use Plex and Tdarr GPU workflows only to stream or transform media you own, created, or are permitted to process. Hardware encoding, scheduled workers, and format conversion […]
Designing an AI-Ready Campus Network After Cisco Live 2026
An AI-ready campus network needs segmentation, telemetry, resilient wired and wireless design, cloud access, identity integration, and a change workflow that can support agentic operations.
Radarr Import Lists That Do Not Fill Your Library With Junk
Start every new Radarr import list with search on add disabled, a unique source tag, the intended root folder and quality profile, and a manual review. Enable automatic search only after multiple syncs add the titles you actually intend to manage. That one staged workflow prevents most noisy-list failures. Rights and lawful use: A Trakt, […]
Homelab Reverse Proxy Guide: HTTPS Without Unsafe Exposure
A security-first reverse proxy guide for homelabs, covering DNS, TLS, app exposure, internal-only services, authentication, logging, and validation.