Category: virtualisation
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Immich v3 Upgrade: The Path, the Hurdles, and What We Learned
A real-world Immich v2.7.5 to v3.1.0 upgrade, including the PostgreSQL extension migration, a long vector-index rebuild, Docker container conflicts, and the checks that proved the service was healthy…
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When Docker Starts Before Your Network Storage: Building a Safe Retry Watchdog
A Docker container can fail before its application process ever runs when an SMB or NFS mount is unavailable. Here is a reusable, app-agnostic way to wait for…
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Home Server Backups Failed: Recovery Checkpoints That Never Clean Up
Veeam backup jobs failed nightly with ‘insufficient free disk space’. The cause: Hyper-V recovery checkpoints that never cleaned up. Here is how to find them, merge them on…
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Run OpenCode Web and the CLI Side by Side Without Corrupting Your Sessions
Run the OpenCode CLI and its browser-based web UI at the same time by giving each its own SQLite database and syncing one-way. No shared db file, no…
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How We Eliminated Deployment Downtime with Docker DNS and Sequential Container Swaps
Every push to production killed all four containers for 2-3 minutes. Here’s how we cut that to 5 seconds using Docker’s built-in DNS resolver and sequential service recreation…
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Reliable Remote Desktop at Home with Tailscale and Guacamole
Set up browser-based remote desktop to any machine on your home network using Tailscale mesh VPN and Apache Guacamole. No port forwarding, no TeamViewer lockouts, no Chrome dependency.…
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Veeam Instant Recovery to Hyper-V: When the BCD Points to the Wrong Drive Letter
Restoring a physical server into a Hyper-V test VM sounds straightforward. Veeam Instant Recovery promises a running VM in minutes, not hours. For the most part, it delivers.…
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Authentik Stuck on “Server Is Starting”: Missing Postgres Container and a Readiness Check Lesson
Environment: Authentik, Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, Nginx Proxy Manager, Oracle Cloud VM Why This Matters Identity systems can fail in a way that looks deceptively simple from the browser.…
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When Windows Network Diagnostics Removed a Hyper-V Switch Fabric
Automated network repair tools are useful on a normal desktop. On a Hyper-V host that runs the router for the site, they can be a lot more dangerous.…
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Docker Desktop Ate 60GB on Windows: The WSL VHDX Problem and How We Fixed It
Published by TekOnlineDate: 20 May 2026 Docker Desktop on Windows is convenient, especially with the WSL 2 backend. It is also very easy for it to quietly consume…