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Backup your Homelab with Xen Orchestra explained

 A video about the possible backups that can be made with Xen Orchestra CE for XCP-ng hosts. I go over all the types of backups and the scheduling of the backup jobs. It is rather long but there are chapters if you ar showing interest in only a section. Enjoy !!!! ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬  00:00 - Intro  00:12 - Overview HomeLab  01:00 - References used  01:35 - Main Topics  02:08 - Rolling Snapshots  18:45 - External Storage for the Backups  21:14 - Remotes in Xen Orchestra  23:17 - Full Backup  31:40 - Delta Backup  39:44 - File Level Restore  42:49 - Backup Metadata  46:12 - Virtual Machine Restore  48:52 - External Storage Backup Files  51:46 - Subscribe!!!   Link to the XCP-ng documentation https://xcp-ng.org/docs/guests.html   Link to backup XCP-ng documentation https://xcp-ng.org/docs/backup.html#xen-orchestra  Link to backup XO documentation https://xen-orchestra.com/d...

How to patch (upgrade) XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra CE and scheduling to reboot the XCP-ng host

In the video, I show how I do the updates of my XCP-ng host with Xen Orchestra CE. After the update, I do a system reboot that I schedule if needed but most of the time I can do the reboot instantly.   ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬  00:00 - Intro  00:17 - Applying the patches  02:20 - Scheduling a reboot  06:51 - End Word  Link to the XCP-ng documentation https://xcp-ng.org/docs/guests.html Link to XCP-ng playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJQANFmtbDeYORouS5NgKehCCkex2V14L  Link to TrueNAS playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJQANFmtbDea5xto8TwBHcTBoqou7L3eF

TrueNAS Core and Fatal Trap 12 troubles in NAS paradise

I had some trouble with my TrueNAS server. When the server was booting it created a Fatal Trap 12 and a reboot was initiated. In the video below you can see the fight I put up to solve the problem. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Intro 00:20 - Hardware Overview 02:00 - Fatal Trap 12 04:14 - Testing the memory 06:02 - Verifying the new memory 07:47 - Testing my pools 08:26 - Again Fatal Trap 12 09:05 - Stopping the scrub on pool RAID5 10:15 - Creating the new pool after exporting pool RAID5 13:17 - Replicating my backup to volume0 from volume1 14:20 - Updating TrueNAS Core for security 16:18 - A scrub to test the pool(s) 16:54 - Restoring my other data 19:35 - All data restored 20:11 - End Word   Link to PassMark MemTest386 https://www.memtest86.com/   Link to TrueNAS https://www.truenas.com/   Link to TrueNAS playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJQANFmtbDea5xto8TwBHcTBoqou7L3eF   Link to XCP-ng playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...