Unraid

This post heavily relies on this guide by Spxlabs and I am simply documenting my changes. Benefits By leveraging a second computer to perform OBS encoding, one can reduce their CPU usage on their main computer anywhere from 10-25%. Additionally, one does not need to purchase a capture card! Prerequisites Before you beginning following the Spxlabs guide you should have completed the following: Have Unraid installed Have Community Applications installed on your Unraid box Enable Docker Hub searches for Community Apps Have a Twitch account Install OBS on your gaming PC Install the NDI plugin on your gaming PC....

Creating Backups There’s a lovely Unraid application called “CA Backup / Restore Appdata” which will allow one to automate the backing up of: our Unraid USB stick: Where the Unraid OS is stored, as well as some operating system settings libvirt.img: Where information about our VMs is stored Appdata: Where a lot of our Docker containers save their images and settings I leverage this tool to setup weekly backups of the folders described above, but we’re not done yet, as this stores the backups on the Unraid array itself....

If you’re anything like me you have a few old laptops and desktops lying around the house from past builds. Historically I have tried to build a home lab by rigging together a series of seven raspberry pis. The novelty of this quickly wore off and I was unimpressed with the performance and slightly higher difficulty to manage so many machines. Just as I was going to give up on the idea of having my very own home lab, a friend at work introduced me to unRAID....