Network

• Linksys MX4300 running OpenWRT, plugged into ISP ONT set to bridge mode.
• Various smart switches along the way to handle VLANs
• 2x UniFi UAP-AC-Lite, 1x UAP-AC-HD

Hardware

The whole ‘rack’ with networking gear and the hardware below sits at about 120W of power draw.

Moxxie

• HP ProDesk 600 G3 | i5-7500, 48GB RAM | Proxmox
  This is my general server where the bulk of services run. It has enterprise SSDs because I kept wearing out consumer models.
  • 2x 960GB Samsung SM863 SSDs in ZFS Mirror, for OS, VMs, and Containers.
  • 2x 10TB in ZFS Mirror, for Media and Files.
  • 1x 16TB as ZFS Single, for Backups from our PCs.
  • 1x 5TB as ZFS Single, for Proxmox Backup Server.
    (Yes this all fits inside that little case with some 3D printed brackets, it’s not pretty!)
    

Frieren

• Dell Optiplex 3000 | i5-12500 | 16GB RAM | Proxmox
  Bought this as my game server due to the very high single thread performance.
  
  • 1x 256GB SSD as ZFS Single

Felix

• Unknown Digital Signage PC | i3-7100u | 20GB RAM | Proxmox
  This runs proxmox backup server and a few other lightweight things. Only uses about 2W at idle!
  
  • 1x 128GB SSD as ZFS Single.
  • 1x 5TB as ZFS Single, for Proxmox Backup Server.

Applications

• AMP for the game servers
• Actual
• Adguard Home
• Beszel
• Change Detection
• Cloudpanel (runs this website!)
• FreshRSS
• Frigate
• Ghostfolio
• Gitea
• Grafana
• Healthchecks
• Hister
• Home Assistant
• Immich
• Mealie
• SFTPGo as a WebDAV server
• SearXNG
• Syncthing
• Traccar
• UniFi
• Uptime Kuma
  

How I Handle Backups

• User PCs and Important Server Files (Like application data)
  • Backrest manages and runs Restic on a nightly schedule, it sends backups to Rest server running on Moxxie to the 16TB drive.
  • For user PCs I also back up AppData and ProgramData (windows), with a large exclude list of junk I don’t want.
  • Backrest also sends backups to a hosted storage box as an offsite, online backup. I use HostBrr.
  • Backrest sends a ping to Healthchecks when a backup completes (or fails), which then notifies me via ntfy.sh if something has gone wrong.
  • For the exclude list backrest runs a script before backup that pulls the txt file from a webserver, this way I can update the exclude list for all backups at once.

• VMs and Containers
  • Proxmox sends these nightly to Proxmox Backup Server running on Moxxie
  • Several hours after, PBS on Moxxie mirrors the backups to PBS on Felix for a 2nd copy.
  • PBS emails me in the morning after each backup, or if something failed.

I test backups occasionally, for Backrest I restore some files from a random host and make sure the size looks correct and everything works OK. For PBS I’ll restore a VM or Container and disable the network interface, then I can boot it up and check things without causing any conflicts on the network.