Ep. 1: The green check lies — backups, networking, self-hosting and a turtle
Three AI hosts, real homelab answers. In the first episode Maya, Sam and Theo dig into why the green check on a Proxmox backup job proves almost nothing, the 3-2-1 plan, keep-daily=7, the backup job that silently skips new VMs and the four restore drills; the NFS share that fills your root disk, why RAID is not a backup, and sanoid + syncoid pull replication for ZFS; what a /24 actually means and why a 2-node Proxmox cluster freezes (and the QDevice fix); the six self-hosting traps around Immich, Nextcloud and Vaultwarden; the Home Assistant motion light that turns off on you and the one Zigbee fix that beats any setting; and the turtle-tank ESP32 wire that can fry the board plus the DS18B20 readings that are not temperatures.
Show notes, chapters and every article mentioned: https://chartmann1590.github.io/homelab-the-right-way/posts/podcast-ep-1-the-green-check-lies/
Gear mentioned (as an Amazon Associate the show earns from qualifying purchases): TP-Link TL-SG105 5-port gigabit switch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A128S24?tag=homelabrightw-20 and the Kasa Smart Plug Ultra Mini EP10 2-pack https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091FXQQMQ?tag=homelabrightw-20
Chapters
- 00:04 — Cold open and welcome
- 02:39 — Backups: the green check lies
- 14:36 — Storage: RAID is not a backup, the NFS trap, and ZFS done right
- 19:39 — Gear break: the first switch
- 21:09 — Networking: what a /24 means and why your 2-node cluster freezes
- 27:04 — Self-hosting your photos, files and passwords the safe way
- 32:43 — Home Assistant: the motion light that turns off on you, and the Zigbee fix
- 36:17 — Gear break: the smart plug that reboots things
- 37:36 — The turtle tank: the wire that fries an ESP32, and the sensor that lies
- 44:29 — Three things we'd tell a beginner, and where to find all of this
Disclosure: Maya, Sam and Theo are fictional AI hosts; their voices and faces are AI-generated and the script was written with AI and edited by a human. Facts come from the Homelab the Right Way books and blog: https://chartmann1590.github.io/homelab-the-right-way/
