Both your RAID and NVMe data should be getting backed up daily to 2 different destinations, if it’s irreplaceable.

But to answer your question, just place the DB and cache files for Photoprism on the NVMe, and the photos themselves on the RAID.

Glad it was helpful info!

Yeah that’s true. I just have worries that the app might do something weird and require a log in and re-sync.

Yeah for large folders and stuff probably better to use SFTP or WebDAV

Localsend works great for me.

I have another 2FA app (Aegis) with the same keys added for my email and any other critical stuff.

The other option for traveling that might be better is use Keepass with the file stored on your phone, that way no internet is needed and there’s no chance of lockout from your password DB.

True, modern hardware can easily route 10gbps or more though so for most of us that won’t be an issue. Often OpenWRT on consumer routers struggles to route even 1gbps.

I agree on the external AP, that is needed.

Yeah start with pass through, without that no physical hardware will show up inside the VM

If thats what your needs are. But proxmox has nothing to do with the hardware being better.

It’s a handy router OS, why not?

Consumer router hardware generally under performs a lot, so running your router on better hardware solves that.

It would be fun as an experiment, but often using wifi adapters as an AP generally doesn’t work that well. Most of us are running an external AP such as Unifi hardware.

As far as getting this working, have you done the passthrough setup on the VM for the wifi adapter?

And have you confirmed that OpenWRT supports your wifi adapter?

Thunderbird on Android should support push, have you tried that?

Mailbox.org

Convenience mostly, privacy needs to be convenient and easy for people, otherwise no one uses the tools.

Are you set on using windows IIS for this? IIS is a ridiculous pile of absolutely ancient stuff that’s a pain to use, and I wonder if the issues on the mobile apps are from IIS not supporting WebDAV properly.

There are other great WebDAV servers out there, like https://sftpgo.com/ which does support Windows.

I would also recommend getting an SSL cert using letsencrypt if you have your own domain name, makes things much easier. Or if this is local only traffic (or over a VPN), just run HTTP if that’s easier.

Is it just you that needs access? VPN like Tailscale or Wireguard is the most secure option then, as it’s not exposing any services to the internet.

Otherwise a reverse proxy in front of things like Traefik or Nginx, make sure things are automatically updated ASAP, and make sure auth is enabled on the services.

Bluesky is a lot easier to use vs fediverse stuff, discovering stuff is also easier in my experience vs mastodon.