Recent content by gschiltz

Thanks! I look forward to using ZFS raid.

Thanks, I'll read up on ZFS. Just a question to clarify: does the installer let me create the software array and install PVE on it, or do I have to have created the array ahead of time with some other utility? That was the case in 4.x.

I haven't yet tried a 5.0 installation, but I was wondering if the PVE installer allows creation of Linux software RAID and then installation of PVE on that RAID? On 4.x, I had to do a manual install of generic Debian first, then (hard to remember, it has been a few years ago) do something else...

The NIC on my HP server has two ports, and one has failed. I'm sure it's a hardware problem, so I will get a new 4-port NIC for it, and probably disable the existing ports in the BIOS setup. The /etc/network/interfaces has a warning (from the Proxmox install) to not modify the file manually...

I would appreciate hearing how folks backup their proxmox servers. Backing up VMs managed by Proxmox is straightforward, due to the built-in snapshot ability and backup scheduler. In my case, I just do a daily rsync of my VM backups to an external drive and keep all but one external drive...

Thanks Tom, that puts me on the right track, at least. I noticed there is no man page for the vma command (I'm not complaining, since I firmly believe that complaining is equivalent to volunteering :-). I do have a couple of questions about the command. If I type vma with no arguments, it prints...

Is there currently a command to retrieve information about the contents of a VZDump backup file? The only things encoded in the filename itself are the VM number and the date/time the backup was done. It would be nice to be able to show the attribute/value pairs shown in the options tab of the...

To partially answer my own question, I just realized that each virtual hard disk has the option as to whether or not to back it up. So, in my hypothetical case, I could install the OS on one virtual disk that gets backed up by Proxmox, and create a second virtual drive for the video files and...

Is there any way to exclude directories from being backed up by the built-in backup facilities? This would be very useful for backing up VMs that contain a large amount of data, especially if the data doesn't change much over time. An example would be a virtualized NAS server used to store...

Thanks to all who provided advice and warnings. In case anyone is curious, here are a few more details. This is a small medical clinic in rural Ecuador, and if not for the gift from HP, we probably would be running the whole thing from a couple of donated PCs. I'm already running Zentyal and the...