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I am working on setting up a home server but I want it to be reproducible if I need to make large changes, switch out hardware, or restore from a failure. What do you use to handle this?

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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I use Unraid, so I just back up my whole config folder along with the OS itself in case I need to flash it to a new USB. In other words, I just clone the whole thing. It means I can be up and running in a few minutes if everything was corrupted.

A data drive loss is pretty simple too, I just simulate the lost data until I can get a new HDD in. That takes a little longer to fix tho.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think it gets some flak but I've been super happy with Unraid.

Migrated hardware by moving the usb drive over to the new system and it didn't blink that everything but the HDDs was different. Just booted up and started the array and dockers. The JBOD functionality is great. Drive loss is just an excuse to add a bigger drive.