Home Server Setup

This is the docker based home server setup for a ubuntu server machine running on proxmos on my N100 mini computer.

The traefik proxy does not run on this machine but it's own LXC container on proxmox, there is a small script to sync it from there to here so I can have it all on one git repo.

Stop home assistant first if jellyfin isn't starting.

Check the wiki here for more information: wikimd/wiki/homepage.md

Drives (view from the ubuntu guest)

Device	Size	Mount Point	Usage
sda	1.2TB	/ (root)	System disk
sdb	4.5TB	/media/extension	Media storage (Jellyfin/Samba)
sdc	3.4TB	/media/ssd	Additional Samba shares

Backup Strategies

Two scripts handle backups. Both must be run as root (sudo) because the backup destination is owned by root.

File Backup — backup.sh

Incremental rsync snapshot backup of /home/oster/server to the extension drive.

• Destination: /media/extension/backup/ubuntu/
• Method: Hard-link incremental snapshots (--link-dest) — each daily run creates a new YYYY-MM-DD/ directory; unchanged files are hard-linked from the previous snapshot, so each snapshot looks complete but only new/changed files consume extra space.
• Retention: Configurable at the top of the script:

  readonly KEEP_DAILY=3    # keep this many daily snapshots
  readonly KEEP_WEEKLY=2   # keep this many weekly (Sunday) snapshots
  

• Exclusions: .cache, node_modules, *.tmp, and DB-related directories (postgresql, mysql, db, database) — those are handled separately by backup-db.sh.
• Locking: A lockfile at /media/extension/backup/ubuntu/.backup.lock prevents concurrent runs. Stale locks (from crashed runs) are detected by PID check and removed automatically.

Run manually:

sudo ./backup.sh

Cron example (daily at 04:00, in root's crontab via sudo crontab -e):

0 4 * * * /home/oster/git/homeserver/backup.sh >> /var/log/backup.log 2>&1

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Database Backup — backup-db.sh

Dumps all PostgreSQL databases from running Docker containers using pg_dumpall.

• Destination: /home/oster/server/backup/ (on the system disk, picked up by backup.sh on the next run)

• Databases backed up:

  Container	DB User	Label
  immich_postgres	postgres	immich
  authentik-postgresql-1	authentik	authentik
  paperless-db-1	paperless	paperless

• Output format: YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS-<label>.sql.gz (gzip-compressed SQL dump)

• Retention: Dumps older than 7 days are automatically deleted.

Run manually:

sudo ./backup-db.sh

Cron example (daily at 03:30, before the file backup):

30 3 * * * /home/oster/git/homeserver/backup-db.sh >> /var/log/backup-db.log 2>&1