Hi All!!

Short introduction, started self-hosting a NextCloud instance using an old Optiplex 7060 SFF that got from work (8th gen i5 + 16Gb ram) and it’s been rock solid for well over 6 months, but I poke my head into the self-hosting world and…well, started planning upgrades.

Got a new machine at the end of Sept, it’s running Proxmox as I plan to run a few LXC’s and VM’s (13th gen i5 + 64Gb ram). Currently planning the new Nextcloud instance, playing around with the drives… can’t figure how to do it right and for the past couple weeks I’ve tried a few things, just need some fresh minds to share some light if possible?

I do have 3x 4Tb drives that I want to use with Nextcloud, but no raid…all separate since my idea is to put 2/3 users per disk (family members to dump pics/docs from phone and move out of GPhotos). So far NextCloud is running on an Ubuntu VM perfectly fine, with one drive added via passthrough.

Tried playing with a VM running TrueNas, sharing the drives as SMB shares but started to run into some issues copying files (prob permissions not set correctly 🤷🏻‍♂️) so moved away from it since my brain was hurting while digging info and looking up tutorials…

The plan is to backup all three separate drives into a big 12Tb spinning drive “just in case”. What would be the best option here? I thought in doing 3x Ubuntu VM’s (basically cloning the first one), add one drive per VM and running a backup script to dump the info into the big drive but not sure if that’s ok or how to accomplish in a good an reliable way? Any alternative, even if it’s going back to TrueNas for managing the disks (and doing snapshots to the big one) but with a good tutorial on connecting the VM and the drives?

Apologies if it’s a bit messy or if I’m doing it all wrong, still learning! Thanks so much in advance!! :)