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Understanding LXC user/group mapping

3 minute read

I’ve been moving some docker containers back from the VM I put them back to Linux Containers (LXC) because of I/O performance and cpu consumption reasons (caused by that I/O).

Using ZFS snapshots instead of BackupPC

2 minute read

One of the docker containers I’ve been using is the wonderful BackupPC for agentless backups. This thing works quite well, allowing me to backup laptops around the house without too much hassle. It’s a bit work to set it up properly, but it works and is fast.

Migrating Proxmox/ZFS from raidz1 to mirrors

4 minute read

The Proxmox box at my home is also being used as a NAS, with Samba and NFS doing the sharing. It had 4 WD Red 6TB PMR drives, in a raidz1 configuration, giving me a net capacity of 18TB (give or take a few).

Moving docker to a VM

1 minute read

In the original design of my Proxmox box I opted for running the docker containers straight on the host. For a lot of reasons, this is actually a Bad IdeaTM, and it’s been one of my goals to migrate these to a VM at some point.