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I have 2 Pis running basically non-stop (2-3 power outages) with the same SD card since 2017 (DNS/print server and Kodi, media is on external NFS). The only thi

by lqet 3y ago

I have 2 Pis running basically non-stop (2-3 power outages) with the same SD card since 2017 (DNS/print server and Kodi, media is on external NFS). The only thing I did was to disable all logs. Never had a single problem. They both have SanDisk 2 GB cards in them. I vaguely remember naively thinking along the lines of "less space => less bit density => better reliability".

abc123abc123 3y ago
Amen! Exact same kodi-setup and sandisk cards, and has been happily running for years without problems. Disable all logs, media on smb/nfs, and off you go.
iforgotpassword 3y ago
I'm still running Kodi on a pi1 approaching 10 years of runtime on the original SD card. It's powered on most of the time but sometimes I accidentally power of the USB power supply it's connected to. It's a little 5-port one that's about just as old with a power button that's easy to press accidentally in my specific setup.
zikduruqe 3y ago
I have a RPi that has been running non-stop continuously since 2014 on the same SD card, serving up a weather website. I basically mounted all logging and webpages on tmpfs, and the DB resides on the SD card being written to every 5 minutes.
- seb1204 3y ago
  Are there instructions on how to upgrade my pihole to this?
  - zikduruqe 3y ago
    Start here. https://ostechnix.com/how-to-mount-a-temporary-partition-in-ram-in-linux/ https://ostechnix.com/how-to-mount-a-temporary-partition-in-... Just understand that anything that is written to tmpfs will be lost if you have a reboot. It might make troubleshooting difficult if you need to preserve them for whatever reason.
apexalpha 3y ago
I still have my very first Pi, it's a 1b I think. It has seen many installs over the years but it's now a backup DNS server. Looking at the filesystem this one has been a PiHole since 2018, it has essentially ran 24/7 bar some reboots and me moving between places. I don't write anything to the SD, it all goes to RAM at /dev/shm and the PiHole will simply have to redownload the lists the few times it goes down. It would download them anyway daily.
drpixie 3y ago
I've been using log2ram (github/azlux/log2ram) and been happy with the results. It mounts a ramdisk on /var and only occasionally copies the logs from ramdisk to SD card. That way I can still see all the logging without hammering the SD card quite some badly.
city41 3y ago
I didn't do anything special at all. My two pis have been running 24/7/365 for 5 years with no problems. I often completely forget about them. One is a pi hole and the other our print server.
nirav72 3y ago
Same here. I have 2 Raspberry 3 models. They've been running PiHole for ad blocking since 2019. Later I started using them for local DNS and also tailscale nodes. There have been times when I haven't rebooted them for several months. Longest being about 11 months uptime. They've been rock solid. Although It does help if you have them plugged into a UPS.

by lqet 3y ago

abc123abc123 3y ago

Amen! Exact same kodi-setup and sandisk cards, and has been happily running for years without problems. Disable all logs, media on smb/nfs, and off you go.

iforgotpassword 3y ago

I'm still running Kodi on a pi1 approaching 10 years of runtime on the original SD card. It's powered on most of the time but sometimes I accidentally power of the USB power supply it's connected to. It's a little 5-port one that's about just as old with a power button that's easy to press accidentally in my specific setup.

zikduruqe 3y ago

I have a RPi that has been running non-stop continuously since 2014 on the same SD card, serving up a weather website. I basically mounted all logging and webpages on tmpfs, and the DB resides on the SD card being written to every 5 minutes.

seb1204 3y ago
Are there instructions on how to upgrade my pihole to this?
- zikduruqe 3y ago
  Start here. https://ostechnix.com/how-to-mount-a-temporary-partition-in-ram-in-linux/ https://ostechnix.com/how-to-mount-a-temporary-partition-in-... Just understand that anything that is written to tmpfs will be lost if you have a reboot. It might make troubleshooting difficult if you need to preserve them for whatever reason.

apexalpha 3y ago

I still have my very first Pi, it's a 1b I think. It has seen many installs over the years but it's now a backup DNS server. Looking at the filesystem this one has been a PiHole since 2018, it has essentially ran 24/7 bar some reboots and me moving between places. I don't write anything to the SD, it all goes to RAM at /dev/shm and the PiHole will simply have to redownload the lists the few times it goes down. It would download them anyway daily.

drpixie 3y ago

I've been using log2ram (github/azlux/log2ram) and been happy with the results. It mounts a ramdisk on /var and only occasionally copies the logs from ramdisk to SD card. That way I can still see all the logging without hammering the SD card quite some badly.

city41 3y ago

I didn't do anything special at all. My two pis have been running 24/7/365 for 5 years with no problems. I often completely forget about them. One is a pi hole and the other our print server.

nirav72 3y ago

Same here. I have 2 Raspberry 3 models. They've been running PiHole for ad blocking since 2019. Later I started using them for local DNS and also tailscale nodes. There have been times when I haven't rebooted them for several months. Longest being about 11 months uptime. They've been rock solid. Although It does help if you have them plugged into a UPS.