Unraid

I bought two 10 TB Toshiba drives for backups. One receives weekly restic backups. The other is still waiting for me to install it at another location. Together, they cost about $500, and the remote copy I bought one of them for still doesn’t exist. In the previous post, I counted those drives as part of the cost of protecting my data. This time, I want to explain what the working drive actually does, which data I chose to back up, and what remains unfinished. ...

Sherlock watches over the server with no top cover. I currently have about 3 TB of data in my main array, but I’ve bought five HDDs. One holds important data. Another protects the array if that drive fails. Two more are for backups. The fifth holds movies, TV shows, and other files I can replace. Whenever I try to explain all those purchases to myself, I have to remember where this started: I wanted to control the floor heating. ...

Starting with Unraid 6.12.8 in February 2024, official support for ntfy.sh notifications was added to the Unraid web UI. The problem is that the integration only supports a single topic for all notifications and only allows configuring the notification title and message body. Expecting full customization through the UI would probably be unrealistic anyway. I use three ntfy channels for notifications: critical, alert, and info. This works much better for me than alternatives such as having separate channels per device. My approach is based on how I need to react to a notification rather than where it comes from. ...