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    Clonezilla fails to start

    I'm trying to be smart, and do a bare-metal backup of my Proxmox VE. But clonezilla is failing to start. I'm trying to simply backup the entire boot disk for my PVE. Should just be the device "nvme0n1", which happens to have three partitions on it. That's how Proxmox configured it. But...
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    Bare Metal backup of entire Hypervisor for DR

    After suffering recent failure of my Proxmox VE boot disk, I'm contemplating a better (but simple) Disaster Recovery Strategy. Option 1: Boot from a LiveOS, use "dd" to backup my (now unmounted) Proxmox boot disk (safest, but requires prep) Option 2: Shutdown Proxmox VE application, use "dd"...
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    tldr doesn't work

    Love "tldr" on all my linux machines, so figured I would install it on Proxmox VE, which is just Debian 11 after all. Doesn't seem to work, tldr pages aren't available root@red:~# apt install tldr...
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    Text Console on MacBook Pro (Debian)

    I installed Proxmox on a 2013 MacBook Pro. Works reasonably well. But can't get the text console working (I prefer the text console as underlying OS doesn't need any desktop env) Here's the process I followed: Couldn't boot from proxmox USB key So I installed Debian (standard) instead Text...
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    Installing virt-customize ok ?

    I'm a fan of grabbing pre-built qcow2 files from the big distros (e.g. Fedora), and booting them right up. Saves me have to build VM's, and they boot right up. Here's my process: build a dummy vm Grab a qcow2 from vendor using wget copy right over the VM's generic qcow2 file Use...