Purpose The two Proxmox hosts described in the Proxmox post now share a direct 25 GbE fibre cable with no switch in between. The main host holds the media pool and the TrueNAS VM (see the TrueNAS ...
Purpose The offsite ZFS post shipped with “12 TB” in its Purpose section and “about 13.5 TB” in its Notes. All five automatic checks passed: post, sanitize, markdownlint, mermaid and gitleaks, run...
Purpose Having snapshots is not the same as having a recovery plan. The homelab has a written disaster-recovery (DR) plan, and a daily job that checks the homelab against it. The plan has four go...
Purpose Once a dozen agents and timers run on one box, “what ran, did it need a model, which one, and what did it cost” has no obvious answer. The question came up as four parts: how many times an...
Purpose I moved datasets from the Proxmox host to a TrueNAS VM with zfs send and zfs recv. The first one, a small SMB share, copied cleanly and passed every check. About an hour and a half later T...
Purpose This is the order of gates I used to retire the old Proxmox host after the migration to the new one. Nothing on the old host was destroyed until the offsite copy of the backups was proven,...
Purpose An offsite NAS pulls nightly ZFS replicas from the main Proxmox host over Tailscale. It used to log in as root. It now logs in as an unprivileged zfspull user whose SSH key can run one sma...
Purpose The hand-written “map” of the lab drifted, and the chat UI and the Hermes agents kept getting facts wrong. The replacement is a small generated knowledge base: facts, Kubernetes state, pla...
Purpose On 2026-10-22 at 19:41:59 local time, the main Proxmox host had a kernel panic during a ZFS scrub. The cause was a fatal PCIe error on an NVMe carrier card. Afterwards the journal and the ...
Purpose On 2026-10-12 at 00:35Z the cluster’s wildcard certificate got stuck renewing. The old certificate kept working, so nothing broke. It was due to expire on 2026-11-11, and every HTTPS route...