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HomeServer main storage upgrade (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello selfhosters!

I'v small homeServer (Dell Wyse 5070) and I'm thinking about upgrade of main SSD M.2 storage.

Currently most of my services are docker containers. During upgrade I want to refresh whole setup and learn ansible a bit during the process.

I've got few services that I want to avoid to stop for hours/days which could take me to set the whole server from scratch in the new way (NextCloud, Home Assistant, Matrix), all of them used locally (trough Tailscale) by my family.

I'm thinkging about keeping them running, by connecting old SSD M.2 drive to my laptop and run inside VM. Do you think that will be doable / what kind of troubles I can get through that process? Asking about that "keeping services on my laptop" think. With refresh of server it will of course be the journey with troubles, but I will have time for that, when crucial services will be running on different machine.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got few docker containered Tailscale deamons as a sidecar, exactly. Those should work as the same host (login based), as in the original home server. I'm mostly unsure, how the whole "VM environment" with attached drive with whole docker engine install will perform - also in terms of connection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So their names would come across with them. In what I'm proposing, you wouldn't worry about attaching the drive. Just copy the data for one service over, then start it's container on the laptop. Once that's all working fine, do the rest one at a time till they're all on the laptop. Then wipe your Dell and start from scratch.