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(AND NOW THE SAGA CONCLUDES) ... (tongue in cheek) But in contrast, I tend to have - more / multiple smaller client sites, who have fairly modest needs, and the storage and VM requirements are not a great fit at any single site. So it just does not make sense. I spec'ced out a few years ago a...

Hi, Just a few points, in response to your questions. (briefly). the 'backup mode' which uses 'snapshot' on proxmox, is very different beast from manually going in and 'taking a snapshot' of your VM. The backup based upon snap - is a good approach to taking a copy of a VM without having to...

Hi, In VMWare I normally use something like Veeam to do backups, either the free version is 'pretty good' or really if people are making decision to run vmware, they are probably not cost-averse so non-free veeam is better obviously. There are other tools similar to veeam which may be less...

can you clarify your 'requirements' you are attempting to address with this, "snapshot on raw image hosted by an NFS server" - you want regular backups (not difficult on stock proxmox) - you want something else I am guessing? - I am a big fan of 'keep it simple' to make operations very stable...

Footnotes in case of use-interest. -- I believe dell servers since ~5+ years now would have iSCSI boot volume option hiding in the bios somewhere, so that may in fact be an easy option, if you enjoy playing with iSCSI Config and Dell bios. Should be possible to mount an iSCSI Lun as your boot...

OK, footnotes to add then. If you have one server, and wish to flip it from VMware to Proxmox. But keep your VMs. There is no 'totally painless' solution. You either have to move large (VMDK) files around. and-or buy some more disk(s). And-or-both really. Safest path would be (a) use a...

Hi, sure, here is config. It is static IPv4 and no IPv6: root@dprox1:/etc/pve/lxc# cat 135.conf #192.168.95.125 # old IP #hostname.goes.here # #setup sep-17-19.TDC # Old comment # # clone-copy of VEID114 backup from Aug.2019 arch: amd64 cores: 2 cpulimit: 1 features: nesting=1 # this feature...

Digging a bit more on this today. In case this helps ? Starting the VM thus, root@dprox1:/tmp# lxc-start -n 135 -F -l DEBUG -o /tmp/lxc-135.log I see this one line immediately: init: Failed to spawn rcS main process: unable to execute: Permission denied and in the log for the above, I am...

Hi, I believe you can use VMDK VM images directly on proxmox without issue since quite a long time now. You may need more storage space on proxmox for migration (ie, temporarily attach an inexpensive USB SATA drive for example, it does not have to be fancy to work). your basic workflow might be...

I believe Fabian's comments nail it very accurately! My only small addendum, you will want to de-configure the HA related to this VM, I believe, so it won't get involved. Copying/moving the 116.conf file to the 'correct place where the VM Disk actually exists' is probably the simplest path to...

Small footnote. Don't use snapshots long term. These are for short term use only. They get bigger with time (by design). If you want 'backups' then use backup process/ dump your backups to different (ie, inexpensive) disk . For example a USB 4Tb SATA drive makes a perfectly happy backup...

Footnote for what it may be useful? I would suggest, decide what is most important for your deployment, and focus on meeting that requirement. Don't assume you can meet all requirements perfectly, including perfect flexible option towards all future possible scenarios. So if your goal is to...

For what it is worth, just to mention. Low-end storage devices which support NFS are both common and easy to setup - and relatively inexpensive. I would suggest you consider this as an option, if the NFS storage will meet your requirement for thin provision shared storage. Just use a (QNAP or...

Footnote/comment in case it is of any use. RE: Snapshots in VMWare. A feature that is a source of much joy (ie, not-joy). I find they can be widely misunderstood in best use case / worst use case. Generally speaking, I would suggest that snapshots are things you want to have only on a...

Hi, I've got some weird issues and I'm hoping someone might recognize some symptoms and possibly be able to comment. This is on a recently patched-to-latest proxmox 5.4.13 host. It has been running proxmox for >1 year and has been patched 'gradually'. (ie, every few months). I'm pretty sure...

small followup, this worked fine - made a copy of the hook script example; made sure it was chmod 700; then it was executed properly after the vzdump jobs called it. If the script was not executable then the jobs failed silently, but a small command-line backup job test helped debug that. So...

Thanks so much for the comments. Glad to understand better the way the tmp thing works. ie, this is not so much going to help me here / unless I adjust to do local path dump. Is there a sample in docs somewhere to hint how I can setup a post-backup 'hook' to do a move of the backup output from...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can comment / has seen this before? I'm trying to tune config for a VM Backup on a client Proxmox host (Proxmox 5.4.13) (hosted on a classic OVH box, 2x2Tb SW Raid / xeon cpu with 8 thread vCPU cores / plenty of ram / and an NFS "backup storage mount" service as a storage...

thanks for this suggestion - I will try and see if it helps.

Hi, I am curious if anyone has seen this sort of behaviour before? I have a proxmox host I setup a few months ago. Runs nicely, it seems. There was a hurricane/power outage this past weekend. Proxmox rebooted cleanly, and one of two VMs on the host auto-started correctly at boot. The one...