Notes from a small home server in a closet: storage, power, DNS, and the occasional mistake written down so I don't make it twice.
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Moving ZFS scrubs off the first Sunday
The default scrub timer collided with backups and a full disk check. Spreading the load out.
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Pi-hole to AdGuard Home, one year later
What I miss, what I don't, and the DHCP gotcha that cost me an evening.
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Clean shutdowns with NUT and a cheap UPS
Getting a consumer UPS to talk over USB and shut down two machines in the right order.