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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/cpn-cooked on 2025-12-13 22:41:37+00:00.

Hi,

I am brand new to the scene but keen to learn and grow. I really can't make it make sense in my peanut brain why there are switched stacked in a lot of setups that have small cable connecting to one another... like that's the purpose? Also how do these switches receive ethernet from the back?

I will be running a optiplex with a couple hard drives, and eventually adding in a switch for other network devices, and possibly one day home security cameras. I just need help making it make sense! I see lots of racks with front eithernet ports connected ot another rack of ehthernet ports - but how. Why. I get so confused

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Mysterious_Door_3903 on 2025-12-13 12:54:56+00:00.

iI’ve been running a pretty normal homelab setup at home (proxmox, couple Linux VMs, Docker stuff, backups, monitoring, etc). Overall it’s fine, but I’m kinda tired of dealing with power cuts, internet drops, and the occasional “why did this box reboot at 3am” moment.

lately I’ve been thinking about using a cloud VM as an extension of my homelab instead of replacing it. keep most of the tinkering local, but move a few always-on services offsite. I looked at Xelon as one option since it’s basically just Linux VMs hosted in Switzerland, but I’m still figuring things out.

Curious how others here are doing this:

what do you move offsite vs keep at home?

do you VPN the remote VM back into the lab?

any gotchas with backups or configs getting out of sync?

i still want it to feel like a homelab, just with less hardware babysitting.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/im_insomnia on 2025-12-13 03:10:55+00:00.

It's finally time guys. I bought my homelab pre-built with used parts and I finally checked my drives run time today after 3 years of owning it (I KNOW, BAD IDEA)... these poor Toshiba drives manufactured in 2016 have 74131 hours on them. I feel like my entire server is being held together by hopes and dreams.

Now my homelab has 3 years worth of data on it. I'm making new backups of everything onto an external 18TB external drive right now. My current setup is 10x2TB Toshiba drives with RAID 5 on a Dell R640.

My plan is to backup the VMs and LXCs to the 18tb drive, then try and replace one drive at a time thats in the server. If that fails due to the stress of rebuilding the array I'll: nuke the drives, install the new ones, reconfigure RAID, install proxmox, and restore the backups from the 18tb drive.

I am terrified of doing this to say the least, never done a backup and restore of this scale. I'm also not sure how to backup proxmox itself (or if that's possible/recommended) as I have a LOT of configuration done to it for it's own networking, etc. that I'd prefer not to lose. I also have basic current backups for VMs and LXCs, but I've never had to actually utilize them so I'm entirely out of my depth here.

Really looking for any advice that anyone has! Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/oguruma87 on 2025-12-12 23:58:31+00:00.

In both my homelab and any paid networking deployments I do, I tend to color-code the patch cables.

My scheme is typically as follows:

Blue for wall jacks.

Green for wall or ceiling-mounted APs

Orange for IP Cameras.

Red for door access devices

Gray for servers or other devices in the rack

I avoid yellow as to not get confused with fiber cables.

How do you guys do it?

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