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Hi to all. I'm moving a lot of VMs from XenServer to Proxmox. I did this more or less 90-100 times before with my conversion script, every time worked properly EXCEPT for 1 VM. On the machine i'll add virtio_pci and virtio_blk modules to initramfs , then I install grub (if not already...

Backup Server is a standalone server or could be used easily on an existing server without installing tons of sofware ?

Are you aware of some "scheduler" able to rotate backups ? Backing up remotely from command line with vzdump via ssh works perfectly, but I need something to rotate backups. Should I create it on my own ? I could use logrotate but looks like a workaround.

No, i only use enterprise-grade SSD disks from not less than 10 years with high-grade hardware raid controllers (where I can't use software raid, i really hate the raid controller) I had 4 major failures: - One time the controller failed, kicked out a disk, then, immediatly when replacing it...

I've fixed by allowing vzdump and qm list, just the "list" because qm could be dangerous, to a backup user with password-less login from my backup server. I'm backing up right now one test server in a totally scripted way. Other solution to read the VMID and VM Names without using "qm" command...

Any suggestion on how to connect, with an unprivileged users, from backup server to pve and still run vzdump ? The only solution i have is to create an unprivileged user with password-less ssh, then using sudo to grand usage to "vzdump" to that user. Any better way ?

I have SSH access from backup to pve (not the opposite) , can I run the vzdump from the backup node and stream ? something like : ssh pvenode 'vzdump --stdout 1.........' > mybackup.vma" I can run vzdump on a running VM and interrupt the process safely, to do some tests ? I have a very bed...

With that, I can loose *ANY* 2 disks for each vdevs. In perfect conditions , I can loose *ANY* two disks from vdev1 plus *ANY* two disks from vdev2, so, 4 disks. In terms of redudancy and safety , this big pool is the same as 2 different pools with just 1 vdev each. The only difference is that...

No, I'll never ever use anything lower than RAID-Z6 for redudancy. Never. Had (a lot) of multiple failures on RAID10 in many years. Never more for no reason. Never. The posted commadn seems to work even with just `pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy4-lun-0`. Other than this, is the command correct ? I...

This means to have , at minimum, free space not less than the biggest VM i have to backup. The one and only interesting feature of xenserver is backups via api with direct download. (yes, doing so on a running VM means creating snapshot and so having free space available not less than the VM i...

I don't think I can use VZDump because it need a storage on pve node, and my backup server are not exposed to virtualization nodes. They are on a different natted subnet. Exposing an NFS share would be a mess.

In our XenServer (cursed the day i choose to use that rubbish) node, we backup (sometimes) VMs directly exporting them from a snapshot. It's pretty useful because a restore can be mede directly, without resyncing a lot (millions) of small files. In Google Cloud, we do the same by only using...

Hi. I have to add 4 new SSDs disks to an existing RAIDZ2 pool. I'm not an ZFS expert and I don't want to loose/reduce redundancy making mistakes. Is this the right command to use ? # zpool add -n rpool raidz2 pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy4-lun-0 pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy5-lun-0...

Another question: backups are mandatory (meaning that data loss is expected) or just as safefy ?

Thank you. Is that "safe" or should I expect some issues ? Both reboot are required or can I safely skip the first (related to 5.4 upgrade) and reboot directly after the upgrade from 5.x to 6.x ?

Hi to all. I have a 5.2 production server that i would like to upgrade to the latest version. Can I directly upgrade from the web interface ? Any additional steps? Should I upgrade to each version step-by-step or straight to the latest one ? I have to reduce downtime as much as possible. Just...

I don't need a performance boost, this server is SSD only and it's already fast, so no need to run send/receive, right ? Are you saying to add a new vdev to the existing pool ? Or should I create a brand new pool with it's RAIDZ-2 vdev ?

Hi to all Current env: PVE 5.2-2 with 4 SSDs in RAIDZ-2 I would like to increase the available space by adding 4 disks more. What do you suggest ? Creating a new standalone RAIDZ-2 pool or grow the existing one to a new RAIDZ2 ? Is this something I can do from the web interface ? If not, as...

So: - 1 don't say that "is NOT a bad pratcise" while it is. - 2 i'm asking if is safe to change it on an existing pool