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[Question]Selfhost a home-server with homed and OpenVFS? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ratatouille@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/29249226

OpenVFS and Systemd-Homed possible?

I'm into selfhosting and Im looking for a way to centralize the Userhomes and have a better Backup of these files.

The idea is to use a virtual filesystem to sync needed data to the client PC and have Homed to encrypt userdata and store the data on server.

That way I do not have to backup the client PCs.

What do you think? And are there any working examples out there?

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[–] ratatouille@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All family member I support and provide with services use a Laptop. They are connected over wireguard. Solutions that depends on Network connections will not work.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Then I suspect homed will not really help. Something like syncthing is probably the way to go.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I second syncthing as a solution.

I personally use an smb server and tail scale client + Headscale and then those smb files are locally backed up to a different drive / different PCs that remain in the network, but that doesn't automatically sync and instead works by connecting to the server directly.

What you're describing sounds like a solution that automatically resynchronizes on connection, and that means you're looking for versioning / sync, thus probably syncthing is the easiest.

[–] ratatouille@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the hint. Long ago I also used syncthing. At that time it not fit my needs. But in this case it may is a possibility.

Any best practises for excluding files in Home for syncing like .cache ?

As far syncthing does not come with a vfs.