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Actually, I think I just solved it (but maybe not best practise). I found a tutorial about LVM-Thin. Basically you can create a volume inside LVM Thin and that's what I did. I created a 1TB volume and formatted that as ext4, then mounted that at /var/lib/vz/dump + put it in fstab. The new...

This is a great idea, but I can't since this is not my server. Should I go ahead and create a volume in the LVM-Thin and put the backups there? I'm a bit hesitant to do it, since I don't fully know / understand if Proxmox will like this. If so, what commands should I use? (again not familiar...

I want to backup/restore quickly using my SSDs on the local machine. I've tried snapshots, by they lock the VM (I guess I don't have the proper storage backend). Using ext4 for Proxmox instead of ZFS (only learning about ZFS now). For now, I just want to fix the main issue and get local...

After doing some more research, the best way to proceed seams to be creating a new volume in pve-data, mounting that and putting backups there. These backups are only temporary and rsynced to a NAS later. Is this a good idea?

Oops, turns out I have no backups since many months due to pve-root filling up during the backup process and it eventually fails. My disk is: pve-root: 90 GB pve-data: everything else I have 1 critical VM running. How can I address this issue safely? Honestly, I'm a bit new to Proxmox and...

If this zvol can be created with thin provisioning, that would be perfect! Much like docker, you can use the main filesystem and don't waste any disk space or need to grow/shrink as the VMs disks fill. Have you tried this in practise? Did a quick Google search and noticed that these are...

Hi Quentin, thanks for the thorough reply. Made a lot of things clear. Basically, I'm trying too hard to combine the 2. The reason I wanted to use FreeNAS is because I'm replacing an old Synology, which I actually loved, but hated the fact that it does 101 different things in a Non-VM way...

Not sure if I follow, but you mean to say that I: - Setup Proxmox with ZFS on 2 small disks with mirroring (boot only) - Put in several spinning disks + dual SSD for ZFS + ZIL + L2ARC and use these directly for FreeNAS - Create iSCSI disks in FreeNAS and use these for other VMs on Proxmox? If...

I think I may have found a better solution. Just add more drives and use some drives for FreeNAS directly, and use other drives for Proxmox. Wouldn’t this be better?

Is there a way to avoid having a ZFS filesystem in FreeNAS on top of the ZFS that Proxmox has? Or is this not possible? Or in other words have FreeNAS use the hypervisors ZFS directly? I know this goes against the idea of virtualization, but to me this looks like the only way to combine both...

Hi gallew, I'm also on Debian (Installed Proxmox from the ISO image, so it came as a full OS + package) How did you setup live migration with Hetzner? Did you setup a separate server for shared storage? Hetzner does not offer any iSCSI storage, so that's a bummer. We currently have 1 Dell...

I also need this solution.