CCharles Hartmann·20h agokeep-daily=7 doesn't mean 7 days of backupsProxmox and PBS retention keeps the newest backup in each calendar bucket, not a span of days. How a month of failed jobs can prune away your...6 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev11M
CCharles Hartmann·Nov 3Delete old Proxmox VMs without regretThe backup, verify, then destroy-with-purge routine for clearing out stopped guests safely, including the linked-clone check that stops you...5 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev
Ttappers·Oct 31How to Benchmark AI Agents Without Eval Cheating or API Key Leaks: Designing a Proxmox & systemd Sandbox💡 Methodology & Eval Infrastructure Deep Dive This article is the Methodology & Architecture companion to our AI Labo Agent Harness Engineering Benchmark Series (41 Patterns Tested). Here we explain19 min read·tappers.hashnode.dev21K
CCharles Rattan·Oct 26I Added a Media Server. Then the Lab Went Offline.An experiment with self-hosted media, an unexpected storage problem and a Proxmox network failure that had very little to do with either.12 min read·cmrlab.hashnode.dev
00x8r41nr07·Oct 21My InfoSec HomeLabIsolated Security Homelab on Proxmox — Build Guide16 min read·braindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz
CCharles Hartmann·Oct 20Your Proxmox backup job is probably skipping your new VMsA backup job built for a hand-picked list of guests silently misses every VM you create afterwards. Here is how to switch to "All" with excludes, and the other checks that make the green tick mean something.5 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev
CCharles Hartmann·Oct 16Is Jellyfin really using your GPU? A six-rung ladder to prove it on ProxmoxA transcoding setting that says QSV proves nothing. Pass an Intel iGPU into an unprivileged Proxmox container the way the Jellyfin docs recommend, then climb six checks until intel_gpu_top shows the Video engine working.7 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev
CCharles Rattan·Oct 16I Wanted a Dashboard. I Ended Up With Five Containers.Docker, Portainer, Homepage, monitoring and an early lesson in why 'running' doesn't always mean 'ready'.10 min read·cmrlab.hashnode.dev1S
CCharles Hartmann·Oct 15RAID is not a backup: the 3-2-1 rule, honestlyWhat actually counts as a copy under the 3-2-1 rule, why a RAID mirror or a snapshot only protects against one kind of failure, and the one-page inven5 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev
CCharles Rattan·Oct 13Getting Proxmox Running Was the Easy PartThe first virtual machines, a MongoDB error that wasn't what it seemed and a UniFi access point that didn't particularly want to cooperate.8 min read·cmrlab.hashnode.dev
