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  • What you’re looking for is a backup. RAID is not a backup, as another poster said it’s a tool for enduring high availability, and possibly higher throughput.

    Buy a second pi and put it in another location in your house or even better at friends house then configure regular backups of your important data to it. There are also cloud services for doing backups which are great because having a location to do off-site backups to can be really hard to get as an individual.




  • Openstack is like self-hosting your own cloud provider. My 2 cents is that it’s probably way overkill for personal use. You’d probably be interested in it if you had a lot of physical servers you wanted to present as a single pooled resource for utilization.

    How does one install it?

    From what I heard from a former coworker - with great difficulty.

    What is the difference between a hypervisor/openstack/a container service (podman,docker)?

    A hypervisor runs virtual machines. A container service runs containers which are like virtual machines that share the host’s kernel (more to it than that but that’s the simplest explanation). Openstack is a large ecosystem of pieces of software that runs the aforementioned components and coordinates it between a horizontally scaling number of physical servers. Here’s a chart showing all the potential components: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Openstack-map-v20221001.jpg

    If you’re asking what the difference between a container service and a hypervisor are then I’d really recommend against pursuing this until you get more experience.








  • When you start talking about offline then you’re going to run into consistency issues and conflicts. How will a system automatically determine which edit to a file is correct if they were both edited offline?

    I’m fairly certain Ceph is also going to be online only. You won’t be accessing your CephFS filesystems when you take your laptop offline since they’re part of the object store.

    Something like Syncthing (as @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me suggested) or some other ‘Dropbox-like’ self-hosted solution might be the way to go for what you’re doing. Even then you’ll probably only want to replicate a subset of your home directory - for example I’d skip temp and cache files that a lot of programs create.

    If you want to play with Ceph just for the sake of doing so then don’t let me stop you though :)