How would one go about replacing the only hard drive in the Proxmox machine?

[arretx]

I'm running Proxmox on a mini PC which is running Home Assistant in a VM.

I need to replace the hard drive, which is a 350GB SATA 2.5" Drive as it's beginning to fail.

Is there a procedure to follow for this, or should I just backup my VM, dump the drive, install Proxmox from scratch, and restore the VM?

 

[Dunuin]

You can also backup your "/etc/pve". Dont know how much you configured, but here it was a pain to setup all filewall rules again.
You could also try to use a clonezilla live USB stick to backup the complete HDD on block level incl. bootloader and so on and restore it to the new drive.

 

[apoc]

Id do it as follows: Get yourself a new disk and attach it via USB.
Then Boot a Linux and "dd" everything to the new drive.
Just make sure you are going the right way. If you do it the wrong way your data gets wiped!!!

 

[arretx]

Hmm...well, I dumped my VM, scp'd it to my other server, removed the hard drive, replaced it, re-installed proxmox, then restored the VM. Took about 30 minutes. Went from 350GB to 1TB and 4GB to 16GB ram...probably set for the time being on this little machine.