Backups
Home Assistant Update Plan: How to Upgrade Without Breaking the House
A Home Assistant maintenance guide for reading release notes, backing up, updating Core/OS/add-ons safely, smoke testing automations, and rolling back.
Restore From a Compromised Backup Without Reinfecting Production
Recover needed data from suspect backups in isolation, rebuild executable components from trusted sources, replace exposed credentials, and require application checks plus security review before reconnecting.
NAS Integrity for Home Labs: Scrubs, SMART, ECC, Checksums, and a Real Restore
A practical NAS integrity routine: ZFS scrubs, SMART tests, snapshots, checksums, ECC expectations, backup verification, and actual restore drills.
Plex From DVD and Blu-ray: Storage, Transcoding, and Backup Boundaries
Check permission to create disc-derived files before planning a Plex library. Measure sample file sizes, distinguish remuxing from transcoding, and protect metadata and recovery copies separately from the original discs.
Linux Failure Injection Lab: Test systemd, Disk, DNS, and Recovery
Run bounded Linux failure-injection tests for systemd crashes, full and read-only filesystems, DNS and network loss, watchdogs, external alerts, rollback, and user-facing recovery without using production as the target.
Self-Hosted App Lifecycle: Updates, Rollbacks, and Release Notes
A self-hosted operations guide for updating containers safely, reading release notes, backing up state, automating carefully, and rolling back.
LXC vs VM vs Docker VM in Proxmox
A practical Proxmox placement guide for deciding when to use LXC containers, full VMs, or a dedicated Docker VM for home-lab workloads.
Proxmox Backup Server for Beginners
A beginner-friendly Proxmox Backup Server guide explaining PBS, retention, pruning, verification, restore drills, encryption, offsite sync, and sizing.
Proxmox 9.x Upgrade Plan for Home Labs
A practical Proxmox 9.x upgrade runbook for home labs, covering backups, pve8to9 checks, repositories, Ceph caveats, rollback, and post-upgrade validation.
From Homelab Chatbot to a Private AI Operations Platform
Extend a local chatbot with document retrieval, bounded tools, monitoring, and backups only after defining permissions, ownership, failure behavior, and recovery; begin with read-only assistance.