Dell R720xd fan speed control

I run R720xd in my home lab setup. The very first thing was to resolve fan speed crisis, as default +16k rpm results in unlivable conditions. This might also be suitable for other

Ceph PGs not deep scrubbed in time

Due to the nature of my single node Ceph instance, pretty much from the beginning, I have configured my scrub intervals to be a lot bigger than the default. However, I kept getting

Ceph osd.x spilled over

Recently I encountered my first spillovers after upgrading to Ceph 18.2. In other places, like Ceph health detail, such situation manifests as: BLUEFS_SPILLOVER: 6 OSD(s) experiencing BlueFS spillover osd.1

Back up the entire block device into S3

For this, we will use Rclone. The device you want to back up should not have any writes for the duration of the backup, otherwise, you can end up with a broken file