Proxmox - Tag - Defingo Nethttps://defingo.net/tags/proxmox/Proxmox - Tag - Defingo NetHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usodd.grape2822@defingo.net (William E. Whitaker, Jr)odd.grape2822@defingo.net (William E. Whitaker, Jr)Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000My UPS Said 32 Minutes. It Lasted 14.https://defingo.net/posts/ups-runtime-reality/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000odd.grape2822@defingo.net (William E. Whitaker, Jr)https://defingo.net/posts/ups-runtime-reality/For years my homelab ran on two small APC Back-UPS units, simply because I didn’t have enough battery-backed outlets on one. A 600 VA unit carried the NAS and the Proxmox host. A 550 VA unit carried the modem, gateway and switch. Both were “fine” according to their status lights.

Then I actually tested one.

The Test

I pulled the plug on the 600 VA UPS on a quiet evening and watched. The load was about 21%. NUT, the Network UPS Tools daemon, estimated 32 minutes of runtime.

]]>What Documenting My Homelab Foundhttps://defingo.net/posts/documenting-the-homelab/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000odd.grape2822@defingo.net (William E. Whitaker, Jr)https://defingo.net/posts/documenting-the-homelab/My homelab notes used to live in a few places: a spreadsheet of schedules, a draw.io diagram, some scripts in different repos, and my memory. Recently I pulled it all into one Git repo with an inventory.yaml as the source of truth and a handful of Markdown docs for power, storage, backups, networking and monitoring.

The rule I followed was simple: don’t write down what I think is true; check it against the live system first. That meant screenshots of settings pages, read-only API tokens for Proxmox, UniFi and InfluxDB, and running a few commands on each box. I worked through it with an AI assistant, which was good at reading API output and spotting where my notes and reality disagreed.

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