Sorry this is going to be another longish and somewhat rambling one... (I tried, but it blew out...)
Yes I hear you re the docs... It's a serious shortcoming of TurnKey. I've made some efforts to improve that, but it's been spotty at best. The problem is that those that need it can't do it, and those that could do it, often get tied up with other "more important" (and/or more interesting) things!
Something worth keeping in mind though, is that under the hood, TurnKey is Debian (v14.x = Debian Jessie aka 8.x). There are some initial configuration differences and we provide some custom software, but essentially anything that works for Debian should work for TurnKey too. Out of interest, Ubuntu is also based on Debian so instructions for Ubuntu will often be useful too. Although be a bit careful, as Ubuntu and Debian aren't binary compatible (TurnKey IS binary compatible with Debian).
I get your apprehension, but I couldn't recommend Proxmox more highly. For me it helped alleviate many of my concerns. Like I say, the beauty of it is that you can risk trashing a test server, without risking any other servers you already have configured and running.
If you want a hand seeing if your hardware is up to the task, please feel free to share what you have. If you already have Linux running on it, please just share the output of:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -m 1 "model name"
If it's running Windows, then apparently according to google you can do that from the commandline with this:
wmic CPU get NAME
Although YMMV (and I don't have Windows so can't check). Via the GUI you're looking for "System Information". That should give the CPU model number.
Personally I use TKLBAM for backups mostly these days, but Proxmox also provides a built in backup mechanism, so you don't even need to risk the particular server you plan to work on (stuff doesn't work, roll back; rinse, repeat).
Obviously you have plans and goals which you'd like to achieve, but while you're learning, I would encourage you to not get too caught up in "getting it right". If you approach it as "play" with more of a mindset of "experimenting" and "I wonder what happens if I ...?", then you can't lose! Remember; if you're not breaking things, you aren't playing hard enough! :)
Also FWIW, the MediaServer is actually built on top of the fileserver (same as the TorrentServer).
Thanks for your kind words.
Yes I hear you re the docs... It's a serious shortcoming of TurnKey. I've made some efforts to improve that, but it's been spotty at best. The problem is that those that need it can't do it, and those that could do it, often get tied up with other "more important" (and/or more interesting) things!
Something worth keeping in mind though, is that under the hood, TurnKey is Debian (v14.x = Debian Jessie aka 8.x). There are some initial configuration differences and we provide some custom software, but essentially anything that works for Debian should work for TurnKey too. Out of interest, Ubuntu is also based on Debian so instructions for Ubuntu will often be useful too. Although be a bit careful, as Ubuntu and Debian aren't binary compatible (TurnKey IS binary compatible with Debian).
I get your apprehension, but I couldn't recommend Proxmox more highly. For me it helped alleviate many of my concerns. Like I say, the beauty of it is that you can risk trashing a test server, without risking any other servers you already have configured and running.
If you want a hand seeing if your hardware is up to the task, please feel free to share what you have. If you already have Linux running on it, please just share the output of:
If it's running Windows, then apparently according to google you can do that from the commandline with this:
Although YMMV (and I don't have Windows so can't check). Via the GUI you're looking for "System Information". That should give the CPU model number.Personally I use TKLBAM for backups mostly these days, but Proxmox also provides a built in backup mechanism, so you don't even need to risk the particular server you plan to work on (stuff doesn't work, roll back; rinse, repeat).
Obviously you have plans and goals which you'd like to achieve, but while you're learning, I would encourage you to not get too caught up in "getting it right". If you approach it as "play" with more of a mindset of "experimenting" and "I wonder what happens if I ...?", then you can't lose! Remember; if you're not breaking things, you aren't playing hard enough! :)
Also FWIW, the MediaServer is actually built on top of the fileserver (same as the TorrentServer).