Infrastructure and Backups

The Proxmox cluster, storage, monitoring and backups that the rest of the home lab runs on.

Two HP EliteDesk Mini nodes on stacking stands above a Synology DS414 NAS, with a UniFi switch and the Home Assistant box beside them in a white cupboard

3-Node Proxmox Cluster on EliteDesk Minis

A 3-node Proxmox cluster on EliteDesk Mini PCs: shared iSCSI storage on its own storage VLAN, HA for the services that matter, and backups that no longer depend on a single box.

A Grafana Node Exporter Full dashboard showing CPU, memory, network and disk usage

Homelab Monitoring with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus and Alloy

How I centralised logs and metrics for my homelab with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus and Grafana Alloy, and what I learned about push-based collection, alerting and code-generated dashboards.

Diagram of the anacron-scheduled rsync backup flow from workstation to Synology NAS with email reporting

Building a Resilient Linux Workstation Backup System with rsync

A resilient Linux workstation backup system using rsync over SSH to a Synology NAS, with automated scheduling, timeout protection, and email reporting.