A Raspberry Pi as a decent residential proxy

Re:A Raspberry Pi as a decent residential proxy by tails4e on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:47AM (#23464923)

Is there a solid solution to the SD card problem? Every Rpi I've tried to use as a server eventually kills its SD card, probably as running an os on SD is destined for failure with write wear. I'm guessing using SD for boot only and then using a home NAS would be an option, but I've not come across a dummies guide to making a Rpi reliable long term.

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Re:A Raspberry Pi as a decent residential proxy by deeblering4 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:34AM (#23466513)

Spending a little extra on good quality SD cards helps both durability and performance.

Also making a backup image of the SD card once configured and using a NAS or external disk for important info helps mitigate the data loss risk, and gives you a quick path to restore onto a fresh SD.

With that said, I have a few raspberry pis that have been running for years without SD failures.

Also, make sure swap is not enabled on the SD

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Re:A Raspberry Pi as a decent residential proxy by kiliankoe on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:28AM (#23466011)

I used to run the boot partition from the SD card and everything else over a mounted USB flash drive. That seemed to work quite ok for a long time, but maybe I just got lucky.

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Re:A Raspberry Pi as a decent residential proxy by Gibbon1 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:04AM (#23464990)

Years ago a friend mentioned her company would spring for very expensive industrial grade SD cards. My company up and refuses to have anything to do with SD cards.

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