Considering that Linus himself only makes binaries for windows and mac, and doesn’t bother packaging for Linux because it’s so painful, I’m not surprised that the immich folks didn’t make one.

Ah, ok then, never mind my answer. I greatly misjudged what you were really looking for

What are you using for your main backup? It probably has a feature for doing remote backup / duplication. You’re best off using that.

If you don’t, then I think that’s probably your first order of business. There are a bunch of good COTS NAS devices that support remote backup to a similar device or to the cloud. Synology generally seems to be the easiest to use based on reviews, but recently they’ve been getting picky about hard drive support.

If you’d rather DIY then there are some FOSS software options to let you build your own NAS and then back it up to the cloud or to a remote device running the same software. These can get pretty complicated from what I can tell (I’m in the process of doing something similar, been researching). Options include OpenMediaVault, and TrueNAS. TrueNAS seems to be “better” but more complicated and easy to fuck up.

Unraid is also very popular, but it costs money to get a software license. Users swear by it, though.
And on the outside HexOS - a fork (or maybe alternative front end?) of TrueNAS, by some former Unraid devs, with the goal of making TrueNAS as easy to use as Unraid. But it’s both paid and beta, so probably not a good choice yet.

These will all allow remote backup to cloud or to a remote device running the same software. They also typically support some kind of virtualization with an app store, so you can use your NAS to host other servers like a media server or immich or home assistant, etc (although app ecosystem abundance will vary).

Wrt hardware, you’ll have to look up system requirements for the software you want to use. For example, TrueNAS uses ZFS filesystem, which wants a lot of ram if you need it to perform well.
If your r-pi can run the software you want, then you can get a SATA hat for your pi, to run a couple hard drives. You can also get NAS cases for your pi.
I probably wouldn’t recommend leaving a mess of cables and parts at your friend’s house across the country, it’s better for both of you if the system is fairly well contained - enough for them to move it without risk of parts getting disconnected.

Thanks!
That helps when I eventually get around to standing up my own AI server.

Right now I can’t really justify the cost for my low volume of use, when I can get CloudFlare free tier access to mid-sized models. But it’s something want to bring into my homelab instead for better control and privacy.

It depends on your motivations and security requirements.

If you’re already hosting Home Assistant, there is an add-on for CloudFlared which will take care of most of everything for you, using CloudFlare secure tunnels.
It even does simple subdomain reverse proxy, to serve your other services.

It requires that you use CloudFlare for your DNS entries, and it won’t secure your host for you (they do offer some free services to help a little), and you still end up depending on a cloud service provider so it’s not pure self hosting.
But it’s free, you’re still mostly in control, and it’s less likely to catastrophically mess up your netsec if you’re a beginner.

Is Nvidia still a defacto requirement? I’ve heard of AMD support being added to OLlama and etc, but I haven’t found robust comparisons on value.

Depends on your priorities.

But if your priority is to get the info out there, then you want both, so that it can’t be stopped just by your ISP cutting your service or losing power, nor by the service you’re using shutting down or deleting your message

In a world of left-pad, I’m sure someone has made an app for it

I don’t want to nuke them from my phone though. I want them on my phone, and I want them on my NAS 1 time.

I’m frustrated that Immich doesn’t have a “back up new photos only” option.

All the photos on my phone are already in a huge external library with my backups from previous phones. I don’t want to delete them from my phone just so immich doesn’t freak out, and I don’t wanna have them on my NAS twice
Immich seems great, but this seems like the bread and butter migration path that nearly everyone would take.

Those are known evils I know how to deal with, that are popular enough that there are foss tools to handle them.

But I’m being a bit hyperbolic here. I’m not as paranoid as I’m portraying myself… I just don’t have any motivation to click this particular risky link.

They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.

I’ve usually seen it in response to a criticism of the people for enjoying the thing

Why risk it?

As a fellow comp sci graduate (different uni, long time ago) that doesn’t fill me with a ton of confidence lol.

This could actually be a study on phishing lol
Or a less ethical study on virus propagation
Or maybe he has just gone rogue and his university hasn’t noticed because they probably don’t actually monitor what students are hosting very closely, as long as it’s not causing problematic network traffic.\

I doubt it, but I’m still not gonna click a link that someone is asking me to click lol

I self host for the same reason I’m not clicking some random link: distrust lol

Do you have to back up everything off site?

Maybe there are just a few critical files you need a disaster recovery plan for, and the rest is just covered by your raidz

We’re gonna go ahead and merge the gardening community with this one 😌

Self hosting a tree

I’ve started sitting to pee, when at home