So Folks,
I had a hickup with HA two days ago. My VM host did run out of space, just a bunch of MBs before the VM would have run out, during an HA update. I fixed that host issue, and for good measures resized the stock .vdi file to double size too, and by this destroyed my partition table and lost the whole machine. I got my VBox system on that just 3 sub-versions spanning bug in the VirtualBox core that made the resize move the blocks, yeeha. As luck would have it.
So now Im back with an all new 7.4 .vdi, and just up 2 days and only a bunch (about 28) of tasmota switches integrated, no non stock data storage. And my DB is already over 1 GB and my backups are growing fast.
and
Well, this time I run samba backup, so no significant space will be taken up by the 7 local backups, and my backup location will not run out of space in the next years, even if I keep adding those backups on a daily basis almost indefinitely, but I got it set to keep only 70 anyway.
Also this way I will never lose my integration again. as my backup gets an ex-house rsnapshot ever night.
SO the QUESTION is: when I start adding weather data, and some stuff that I want stored for years, and not just the about 10 days I think HA does on stock settings. Where will my DB end? And would a MariaDB switch improve that issue? How about the maria DB to fix a performance issue?
For space reasons, I switched the HA disc from SSD to conventional hard drive, as my VM SSD environment is kind of limited with its 2x 512 GB raid 1 setup, while with the conventional drives I got plenty with 4x 20tb in a raid 10 config. But I cant increase the SSD as my space, sata-ports as well as physically, is kind of used up in the HP ProLiant micro gen8. I only could go with the sata ports on the mainboard and they are really slow compared to the Hardware Raid controller. Hence the switch to spinning discs.
Did not see any speed changes as of yet but could add just a second VM drive for the DB only on the SSD environment, if that would help the speed. If so, what size should I go with?
I had quite some performance issues with graphs last time. Kinde of they took 10 to 30 seconds to load in lovelace dashboard. And thats annoying if you just want to take a short look at the temps of last night, to know if you would need to switch on the preheat of the car to defrost it (yes im upgrading that to afterburner to automate it, but currently its still manual.)
Whats your thoughts and experiences with that guys?
THanks