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Veeam Community Edition and Kopia Cloud Offload - Deduplication Benchmark 128K Buzhash
HomelabPosted on2026-03-272026-04-08

Veeam Community Edition & Kopia: The DIY “S3 Cloud Tier” for Budget-Minded Admins

Unlock the power of Cloud Offload for Veeam Community Edition without the expensive licensing. In this post, I’ll show you how I used Kopia as a deduplication bridge to bring my XFS space savings to any cloud storage.

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HomelabPosted on2024-05-272025-12-16

Proxmox HA Storage: Ceph vs Gluster

When I set up my Proxmox cluster in my homelab I decided to go with Ceph as a storage option. Ceph is greatly integrated within…

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HomelabPosted on2024-04-262025-12-16

Last TBW Readings for VSAN Disks

As described in another post I migrated from vSphere with VSAN to a Ceph based Proxmox cluster. I tracked the TBW readings of my SSDs…

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NetAppPosted on2024-04-182025-12-16

NFS over IPSec with certificate authentication and NetApp ONTAP

Here I go again. I joined NetApp about half a year ago and came across a customer request for IPSec encryption of NFS. The documentation…

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HomelabPosted on2023-12-022025-12-16

Migration: vSphere with VSAN to Proxmox with Ceph

I recently had an issue with one of my cluster nodes always rebooting after some minutes. This came into a period where I didn’t have…

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HomelabPosted on2023-04-042025-12-16

vSphere 8: “TPM 2.0 device detected but a connection cannot be established” on Ryzen CPU

I started upgrading my VSAN Cluster (see my Homelab Revamp Series) from vSphere 7 to vSphere 8. While the upgrade itself worked fine on the…

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AutomationPosted on2022-10-142025-12-16

A Packer build for Ubuntu LTS

I’ve been using packer to build my Ubuntu LTS VMs for a long time and finally with the release of the latest Ubuntu LTS version…

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HomeautomationPosted on2022-09-272025-12-16

Shelly firmware not updateable

I recently got some new Shelly Plug S to have more control and monitoring in my home. After adding them to my wifi (connect to…

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HomelabPosted on2022-08-052025-12-16

Homelab Revamp 2022 – Part 5 – Migrate, learn & adapt

Only two days after I set up my VSAN node #3 with altered components I learned already a lot of things. Migration from 2-node VSAN…

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HomelabPosted on2022-07-182025-12-16

TBW readings for VSAN disks (Update #2)

As I just removed two of my VSAN capacity disks from my cluster nodes I took the chance to have a look on the TBW…

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