Implementing Cold Off-Site Backups - Virtual Machines

Up until recently I have been backing up my most important data to Backblaze. I wanted to implement something that was more of a last resort, cold storage backups to backup both my servers and my file share. I wanted this to be easy to implem...

External drive caddy for hot-swapping drives

I wanted an easy way to add and remove drives for cold storage backups, so I created this external drive caddy using this Hard Drive Rack. It is no long available on Amazon and has gone up in price, but you can create your own using similar methods o...

Adding Noctua Fan to Cisco 3560G

I have since moved on from using this switch to a Brocade ICX6610, but when I first started learning and homelabbing I bought a couple Cisco routers and switches. First I was using a Catalyst 3560G. Eventually I got a Cisco WS-C3750X, both because I wanted someth...

How to Add a File Share to Proxmox Backup Server

For my local backups, I backup my virtual machines using Proxmox Backup Server to my TrueNAS device. While this is not the officially supported, it has worked well for me so far. The device I use for this is an Udoo x86 device which has worked per...