i fubarred the upgrade to proxmox 9

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wbravin

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Hello

My intension was to upgrade to proxmox 9 from proxmox 8.4 on dell r720
I first update my debian from bookworm to trixie via pve console. all terminated well and i thought it would be good practice to reboot the server. So i did
now when i boot i get a terminal screen which tells me to connect to https://192.168.121:8006 from a browser it refuses connection

I do have complete backups (including vms) of my pve did yesterday. I have all my data backed up and a separate backup of my truenas and Home assistant .

My question:

Can i install via a usb proxmox and blank the current installation disk and then restore from my backup my pve, my pve vms and lxcs the i would restore truenas and home assistant, opnsense?

Or is there a way to fix my situation without all this work?
Thank you for your help
 
Did you upgrade the Debian base without upgrading the Proxmox repository? In that case, you most likely messed up ifupdown2, which is why your network doesn't come up. You can check this via running systemctl status networking .

Can you post the output of the following command as well?

Code: 
apt policy
 
Thank you for your prompt response

I tried to bite the bullet and install from scratch proxmox 9
It's sleeker
However i currently having a hard time understanding how to pass through PCI cards for all my drives and usbs for HA
something to do with iomu?

More importantly i used vzdump backup in proxmox 8. It is said that proxmox 9 haz vzdump integrated yet i cannot find a suitable instruction on how to restore from 8.4 to 9.



IMHO and limited knowledge then restore process should take care of al this... Correct?
 
@ shanreich

Hello Had another issue with the electricity and since reinstalling everything monday it all went too hell once again.

Therefore may i please ask for some guidance?

I have a dellr720 with 6 X 3,5 Hgst (this means that i have 2 slots available

Currently proxmox is installed on a 500gb ssd connected to a sata port on the MB. as this would be a single point o failure (and i do not have 1000 E to invest in a ups now) and since the is a second sata port available on the MB i could plice the usb to provide power to a second ssd.

or

i can replace both ssd with 512 gb usb

My objective is to have a complete install on the 2nd ssd or usb therefore if the same occurrence presents it's i just need to remove the "primary" usb or ssd and replace it with the second

Or

I can install 2 ssd in the empty trays and assign them to Proxmox ( these would be boot drives)

Thank you in advance for your guidance
 
gfngfn256 said:
Unlikely, as the console gave him an IP to connect to.
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If you're talking about the login screen (which I assume is what OP was referring to): That doesn't say anything about whether the network came up or not, that line is there even if ifupdown2 fails to load networking at boot.


wbravin said:
@ shanreich

Hello Had another issue with the electricity and since reinstalling everything monday it all went too hell once again.

Therefore may i please ask for some guidance?

I have a dellr720 with 6 X 3,5 Hgst (this means that i have 2 slots available

Currently proxmox is installed on a 500gb ssd connected to a sata port on the MB. as this would be a single point o failure (and i do not have 1000 E to invest in a ups now) and since the is a second sata port available on the MB i could plice the usb to provide power to a second ssd.

or

i can replace both ssd with 512 gb usb

My objective is to have a complete install on the 2nd ssd or usb therefore if the same occurrence presents it's i just need to remove the "primary" usb or ssd and replace it with the second

Or

I can install 2 ssd in the empty trays and assign them to Proxmox ( these would be boot drives)

Thank you in advance for your guidance
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You can use ZFS RAID 1 to have redundant boot disks, but that doesn't really fix the core issue. Having two separate Proxmox installs requires syncing of configuration etc so it's imo easier to just reinstall or restore your configuration from a backup instead. Running Proxmox in locations where power outages are a common occurence will always lead to issues naturally and I'd try and address that instead.
 
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shanreich said:
That doesn't say anything about whether the network came up or not, that line is there even if ifupdown2 fails to load networking at boot.
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I find that really interesting. So it just takes it from whatever was entered as vmbr0 address in /etc/network/interfaces?
What would happen if one was using dhcp, what would the initial console then output?
 
gfngfn256 said:
That is (was) not a valid IP address. Were you able to SSH in initially? If this was just a typo in your post, please ignore.


Unlikely, as the console gave him an IP to connect to.
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Thanks for your response It was a typo
 
shanreich said:
If you're talking about the login screen (which I assume is what OP was referring to): That doesn't say anything about whether the network came up or not, that line is there even if ifupdown2 fails to load networking at boot.




You can use ZFS RAID 1 to have redundant boot disks, but that doesn't really fix the core issue. Having two separate Proxmox installs requires syncing of configuration etc so it's imo easier to just reinstall or restore your configuration from a backup instead. Running Proxmox in locations where power outages are a common occurence will always lead to issues naturally and I'd try and address that instead.
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Thank you for your prompt response. I will investigate a backup solution. For my media I did use Rsync to backup from truenas o truenas

I guess that beside doing the backup i will need to think on where to put it so it will be readable by the new proxmox installation.

I would like to find solution that will Backup my install configurations

Are the backup and recovery section lxcs usable with proxmox 9?


Thank you so much for your help and guidance
 
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