Recent content by MikeP

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    Backup to samba when the mount fails

    But mounting the remote backup folder via fstab has one danger. If the remote system goes down, the remote folder won't be automounted again after the remote machine comes up again. So the backup will be dropped to the local folder which is used as the mount point. If this folder is on the...
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    How to import ZFS root pool by-id?

    I added that line into the file, and did the "update-initramfs -u", I didn't update grub, and I got the rpool to have the "friendly" disk names. It sorta worked. I don't know why I got one wwn name and the other two have the brand names. My other pools also now have wwn names. At least now...
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    [SOLVED] "invalid arch independent ELF magic"

    FYI. Trying to install PVE on an older machine. got the error "invalid arch independent ELF magic" It seems that the problem was the CMOS battery was dead, and the clock was way wrong. Changing the clock fixed this problem.
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    Running Proxmox on Cloud Infrastructure (Azure, AWS etc.)?

    Oracle, OCI, offers Bare Metal as a service. IaaS. It is geared toward enterprise use. https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/iaas/products
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    Unable to log into web interface

    Can you not log in as root?
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    PVE on EXT4 local can't start image or lxc

    I installed PVE on a single disk system, using EXT4. I have a local, but no local-zfs. Local is set to "VZDump backup file, ISO image, Container template", where local-zfs on other systems is set to have "Disk Images, Containers". This one PVE doesn't have local-zfs, so no place to put an...
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    Fresh install ZFS (RAID1), can't boot after reboot

    I have a similar issue: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/intel-nuc-issues.52314/
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    Intel NUC issues

    I don't know if it is me, the NUC, or what... I have an older NUC. After fiddling around with settings... Won't find USB with Legacy boot on. Turn off Legacy boot, turn on EFI. Boot from a USB, install PVE on ZFS. Won't boot. Install PVE on EXT4, boots up. It's just a small...
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    Note on CIFS mount

    So I put up a brand new PVE 4.4 and wanted to mount a CIFS/SMB share off of a Windows server. I made this note to do this from the last PVE: #mkdir /mnt/sambaspot #echo “//sambaspot.localsystem.local/misc2/vm-images /mnt/sambaspot cifs username=sambaspot,password=P@ssw0rd 0 0” >>...
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    Another 2 issues

    https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model currently has no text.