Recent content by sdet00

I don't plan to leave it like this, I just needed a third node and a replacement system was supplied with Proxmox 9 on it already - was running out of time so just tried a join and it has worked OK so far. I will upgrade the remaining nodes over the coming days and update if there are any issues.

Just in case anyone is curious, I added a Proxmox 9.1 host to an 8.4 cluster without issues today. I even configured replication, as the plan is to upgrade an existing cluster to 9.1 and use this as a destinations to VMs to run while hosts are being upgraded.

Nah I already clean installed and restored my VMs, problem solved. Not worth the time to troubleshoot this sort of thing. I suepect it had something to do with my install being a BTRFS install

This actually made things worse for me. I rebooted right after and it turns out I was supposed to run some GRUB update commands, and UEFI boot was broken. I had to clone my entire boot SSD to an external drive and use legacy boot on another PC to get it back up. Even then, no network... what a mess

I'd love to see some sort of interactive CLI bash script for this. As someone who has had to restore the odd backup in the middle of the night on limited sleep, having to wrap my head around a new CLI method can be a bit tough.

Blows my mind this is still an issue, caught me out again today... bloody hell

Alright - this worked, brilliant! To quickly summarise: 1. Read this: https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v3.0.x/general/portable.html 2. Boot Linux Mint Live ISO, download the recovery EFI file and place it in a fat32 partition as instructed. It must be renamed to EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI 3. Reboot...

That looks interesting - I'll give it a crack. I'm sure if I can boot my system normally at least once I can probably repair the bootloader from within Proxmox itself.

I wish it was that simple! Sadly it's not the problem.

Yes I did - that's where I encountered my issues with the proxmox-boot-tool. The format command works, the init command did not. Yes it is a UEFI boot partition. "proxmox-boot-tool init /dev/sda2" is the command that failed for me. Not sure why. The ISO doesn't ship with the binaries and I...

I have a somewhat frustrating situation - I have a ZFS RAID1 which started out life as a single disk, and then a second SSD was added as a mirror after the installation was done. The original failed, and today I learned that a ZFS RAID1 mirror is not actually a mirror - it doesn't actually clone...

+1 to this idea, I made a rant a few years ago about default settings not making much sense, and it still bothers me to this day. Having profiles would be great. It's already a thing with the "OS" selection - just let us make our own please :)

I came across this today - wow what a headache. I have been manually reducing RAM in the meantime when needed, but it's definitely annoying. I still try to use UEFI for everything but sometimes I just need something legacy to work.

Easy answer - I keep PBS virtualised (via LXC), and if my primary host goes down, it would be to run some services on my secondary host temporarily by restoring backups. Also, I might want to add real HA later, in which case I can disable this quorum command. Also it's nice to just be able to...

I don't think exclusions would work if I had just a single LXC. The way I'd break it up would be a bit different to overcome some of PBS shortcomings with LXCs. LXC1 = Primary container, online. This would backup boot volume only and would have all mountpoints assigned. Backed up daily. LXC2 =...