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Data storage for containers in LCX / VM (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by conrad82@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I run my containers in an LCX on Proxmox (yes I heard I should use a VM, but it works..)

For data storage (syncthing, jellyfin ..) I make volumes in the LXC. But I was wondering if this is the best way?

I started thinking about restoring backups. The docker backups can get quite large with all the user data. I was wondering if a separate "NAS" VM and NFS shares makes more sense. Then restoring/cloning docker lxc would be faster, for troubleshooting. And the user data I could restore separately.

What do you guys do?

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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're using LXC and your filesystem is BTRFS you can use the built in snapshots.

[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, before doing major changes i usually run a snapshot

I listened to https://thehomelab.show/ podcast today, and they mentioned that before doing major upgrades, you could create a clone VM from latest backups and test the upgrades before doing them for real. That way you both ensure safe upgrade and also make sure your backup is restorable.

It sounded like a good idea, but it got me thinking of the size of my LXC filled with user data.. So I was wondering if I was doing it wrong

[–] Fermiverse@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use unpriveliged LXC für everything I have running in my proxmox.

Plex, syncthing, rclone, motioneye, pyload all in seperate Lxc on the boot drive.

All data of those is on my mirror raid, including the lxc backups. The rclone lxc backs the important data onto my cloud drive.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
LXC	Linux Containers
Plex	Brand of media server package
VPN	Virtual Private Network

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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