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How do you keep up? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Thunderbird4@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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A year ago I built a NAS to reduce my reliance on cloud services, and set up an arr stack. I went with TrueNAS Scale, which was on Bluefin at the time. In the past 12 months, TrueNAS Scale has been through FOUR major OS versions, with a fifth already announced. At least one of those involved a release train switch so, despite diligently checking for updates in the dashboard, I was left in the dust with an obsolete OS, and didn’t find out until it was already a huge hassle to upgrade.

I’ve been really happy with the utility and benefit of having this tool, but holy smokes how is anybody supposed to keep up with all of this? This is far from my only hobby, and I simply do not have the time, patience, or interest for a constant race to keep up with vetting new release versions and fixing what breaks every 3 weeks. I have enough tinkering hobbies as it is.

On top of that, there’s the whole blow up with TrueCharts, which has also left me with an entire suite of obsolete albatrosses around my NAS that I need to deal with. Am I still waiting for them to figure out an upgrade path? I don’t even know anymore.

Sorry for the rant, but I guess what I’m looking for is: how do you keep up with the constant maintenance and updates, and where do I go from here, in February 2025, with a system running Bluefin 22.12, a 32TB ZFS pool (RAIDZ1) that has to remain intact, and a handful of TrueCharts apps that I don’t want to lose the data from (e.g. Jellyfin configs/watch history)?

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[–] MXX53@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I run a Fedora server.

All of my apps are in docker containers set to restart unless stopped by me.

Then I run a cron job that is scheduled at like 3 or 4am that runs docker pull on all containers and restarts them. Then it runs all system updates and restarts the server.

Every week or so I just spot check to make sure it is still working. This has been my process for like 6 months without issue.

[–] alibloke@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try watchtower instead of cron jobs

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I'll check it out! Thanks!

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on your stance on risk since WatchTower has to run as privileged

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

This is a good point. Generally if can accomplish what I want with my own scripts, I will go that route. I'll probably avoid adding additional software to the mix since what I have works fine enough.