pms-wiki VS snapraid-btrfs

If you want a fully open and free solution, https://perfectmediaserver.com should do the trick.

Alex Kretzschmar from Jupiter Broadcast (Linux Action news, Linux Unplugged, Self Hosted) used to maintain https://perfectmediaserver.com/ as a guide to do this.

I am creating a list of parts for building multi-purpose server that will be running Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 as I am relatively new to Linux and a GUI will ease me into the structure OS as become more familiar with the CLI. Also, I am using perfectmediaserver.com as a general guide. For some context, I also have a gaming PC with some older parts I may donate to the server build. Specifically, I am considering possibly transferring:

Have you looked at the resources here, https://perfectmediaserver.com/

I myself prescribe to the teachings of the IronicBadger(Alex Kretzshmar) from the Self-Hosted podcast and (when I get one setup) intend to follow the guides on his site https://perfectmediaserver.com and use mergerfs to turn a JBOD to a single filesystem and use SnapRAID for redundancy.

I went with this guide https://perfectmediaserver.com/

Trashguides and Perfect Media Server have great setup guides and linuxserver.io has all the docker-compose templates. Good luck!

It's supposed to be a "Perfect Media Server"/NAS/Router/Smart Home Hub/Hypervisor in a Small Form Factor footprint. I want to combine as many appliances as possible into one. Single point of failure is okay, I use the network alone, only I will suffer if any of the services (including Internet) goes down ;). I value less power consumption (0,35€/kWh...) over redundancy currently.

Are there any good tutorials? I’ve read the Perfect Media Server (PMS) series but it’s not that thorough.

Check out: https://github.com/automorphism88/snapraid-btrfs

I've been looking into snapraid-btrfs and snapraid-btrfs-runner.

- Use https://github.com/automorphism88/snapraid-btrfs which allows me to run 'snapraid' sync from a brtfs-snaptshot so the system can continue running 24/7 while doing parity maintenance tasks.

Add btrfs into the mix with snapraid-btrfs and now you have atomic snapshots and don't have to worry about new writes corrupting your snapshot data for that missing drive. And then automate it with snapraid-btrfs-runner, which will automatically check if more than X files were deleted, run the sync, run a scrub, and email you the result. After all that I use Borg Backup to backup content I generate (stuff I can't just download again) to a PC I have at my dad's house off-site. Which has already come in handy when a logical volume for my container data destroyed itself for some unknown reason (that was data on a RAID1 baked LVM volume with XFS as the filesystem).

Btrfs for data and ext4 for parity is one decent combination (btrfs should be absolutely safe enough on single drives) and you can also use something like https://github.com/automorphism88/snapraid-btrfs (read the FAQ if you're wondering why).

Not an answer to your question, but just making sure you are aware of this project: https://github.com/automorphism88/snapraid-btrfs

This is a cross-post from SnapRAID-BTRFS Github issue.

Because I need snapshots and I plan to use snapraid-btrfs.