Day 2 with my custom build NAS server for the homelab

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0700

Symptom

A scheduled Proxmox Backup Server job had been running against one of my LXC containers every night since 2026-09-27. Every run reported TASK OK. The run on 2026-10-01 was incremental and reused 98.9% of the previous backup, which read as healthy.

Line 7 of that same task log said something else:

INFO: excluding bind mount point mp0 ('/mnt/immich-data') from backup (not a volume)

I didn’t catch that line myself. Claude, who I was working through this with, is the one who flagged it. I wasn’t reading the log line by line looking for it. I’m OK with that: Claude catching the backup gap doesn’t bother me.

Create Kubernetes Cluster in Proxmox Using Talos

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:31:17 +0700

Introduction

Talos is a container optimized Linux distro; a reimagining of Linux for distributed systems such as Kubernetes. Designed to be as minimal as possible while still maintaining practicality.

Installation

Regardless of where you run Talos, the steps to create a Kubernetes cluster are:

boot machines off the Talos Linux image
define the endpoint for the Kubernetes API and generate your machine configurations
configure Talos Linux by applying machine configurations to the machines
configure talosctl
bootstrap Kubernetes

Pre-requisites