Home Lab Upgrade 2025

It’s been close to a year since I’ve setup my home server. I even tried extending it with the Synology Diskstation DS415+, but the storage capacity was too low back then.

Now that Naqu’s parents have got new HDDs for me from the US, I can do an upgrade of the storage and software used for the home server alongside utilising the DiskStation fully.

This one might get messy 😅

Goals

• Update Homarr installation.
  • The latest version has been released and it seems to be much cooler and more stable. The instructions are here
• Organize the home-server-docker repository.
  • Wanna use Podman now. Lessee.
• Use the Diskstation for storage and Server for compute.

Logs

This is going on for soooo longgggg

2025-10-01 08-26 pm

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I’ve put the 2 HDDs maa and pappa got into the Diskstation. But I have not switched on the NAS yet 😅 idk why I don’t wanna focus there right now. Though I am excited to set it up. I do have to do some research first on what mode of RAID i wanna use for these 2 HDDs. I’ll create a separate Volume with these 2 HDDs, but I am not super comfortable with using just 6tb coz the other one will be used for backup.

2025-10-03 12-33 pm

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It seems a storage pool just indicates which drives are part of it, doesn’t really create storage as such. Have to make a Volume in a storage pool to get the actual storage

2025-10-06 09-55 am

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Using rsync to move my pictures folder. From whatever little I’ve read, and my past reading too, rsync is a better option than cp if I wanna move files across the network. It has cabality to resume the sync if it crashes, and does a “sync” as opposed to just copying files. Lessee. Games were transferred successfully, now I’m sending over pictures

later will send over the media and I think we’re good then.

2025-10-08 03-33 am

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rsync is failing whenever transferring the anime folder. Some weird failed verficiation ka error keeps coming up. I’ll do some other smaller media folders, and then come back to the 3 big ones. series, movies, anime. Maybe I’ll transfer them using USB only.

2025-10-05 07-09 pm

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Back after 2 days from Sahil ka Birthday Trip, and it seems that was some issue in the data transfer.

I have now started the data transfer again, but this time just transferring my games folder. I’ll do the rest in parts later.

2025-10-06 09-57 pm

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Pictures and games got transferred successfully. Though it seems the Diskstation is shutting down randomly due to some or the other issue. I think it’s starting to show its age :(

Anyway, now i’ve kept the anime folder for transfer using rsync. Hope it gets done successfully without any power issues. I did turn the fan speed to full power in the Diskstation settings.

2025-10-03 03-42 pm

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Kept the media folder from my home server to be transferred over to the NAS over ethernet. It will take some time, maybe a day. But I’m not doing anything anyway, and I don’t wanna do it over USB coz I know it’ll be way slower and cumbersome.

Set up the cp command using the screen utility to have a long running task even after I close my SSH connection to the server.

This way, Jellyfin and other services can continue working while the data is being copied over.

I have to validate if I can continue downloading and doing my normal workflow over this NFS mount. That’s a task for later though.

2025-10-03 09-42 pm

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This cp command is taking too long… shoulda maybe done the migration some other way.

2025-10-03 03-15 am

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Re-installed DSM on the DiskStation and created a single volume ka storage pool 😁

I’ll configure the other pool also before sleeping.

Will figure out how to move data later from the home server

2025-10-03 02-20 am

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Had some back-and-forth conversations with Claude and my own research, and i “nuked” the NAS 😂

I’ll start from scratch. Configure 2 pools, one pool with the 500GB drive, and another with 6+6+1 TBs. Lessee how it goes. Theoretically, I should get 6.4TB of storage to use.

2025-10-03 04-04 am

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Configured the second storage pool too 😁

Drive 1,3,4 slots are part of this second pool. I forgot that the 500gb base volume is in Drive 2 ka slot.

Ah well.

Tomorrow or something I’ll figure out how to get my data from the home server into the NAS. I am using 5.4TB of data or something in the home server, and I have 6.3 TB to use in the NAS. All my current data should fit. It’s all a matter of configuring the services to use the NAS instead of local storage, and it being fast.

2025-10-03 02-06 pm

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Getting this NFS share to work is a big pain. I don’t wanna use the terminal (weird) and instead wanna use OMV ka GUI only to do this. I can use the terminal as a last resort.

I think the Remote Mount plugin isn’t working correctly, or maybe it requires me to restart the home server. So I upgraded all the packages at least, so that’s done at least.

And then I will restart the server.

2025-10-03 03-28 pm

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Got the NFS share working on my home server (thank god). I thought for quite some time that the issue was coz of the Remote Mount plugin. Turned out to be half true. I had some misconfig in my mounts pre-existing. The old nextcloud-dedicated-sg mount was not being found, and it seems Remote Mount goes through existing mounts before making a new mount.

Went in, deleted the references to the missing HDD (it’s now used as my “utils” HDD). After that, I just did some kala-kandi with manually setting up the remote mount, and that did work but maza nai aaya.

Tried the Remote Mount plugin again, and IT WORKED 😁

Next step, copy the media folder from home server to the NAS