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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 =...

If I had it totally figured out I wouldn't be asking would I? I'm curious if anyone has been in this situation and how they approached it. I'm looking for three things really: 1. Is there some sort of alternative to Proxmox Backup Server live restores, but for LXCs? 2. If I am going "break it...

Howdy folks. I have been using a Debian LXC with Cockpit with a handful of bind mounts for SMB file share duties, and I recently came to the realisation that my backup strategy is really not ideal now that I have over 20TB of data across various shares. I recently changed my Proxmox Backup...

I left it running overnight, and found that it only transferred 74GB - yikes my storage is slow. I had to cancel it and reschedule for the weekend.

I have been tasked to move a container onto a new storage location. Moving the volume within the GUI appears to be straightforward operation, but there doesn't seem to be any output whatsoever about statistics such as file transfer rate. Am I missing something? According to the system stats my...

Found the issue - I was digging into the differences and it looks like my mountpoint naming convention was causing issues. For some reason I decided my mountpoints within my LXC should be mounted under the ZFS pool name (e.g. "/ZFS-JZ2H/directory-1") for example, and that was causing some...

Hello everyone! I have a very unusual issue with getting backups to run with a specific Debian LXC. If any of my ZFS mount points are included as part of the backup, the backup to my Proxmox Backup Server will fail immediately. What is interesting is that only this LXC has issues with this. I...

Yep my CPU is pretty pathetic. I would like to upgrade it but getting out there to get the job done seems like a big challenge for now. It may not be such a big deal considering that it is possible to do live-restores nowadays... but I still worry about restore times.

How is it going, any more issues to report?

That's what I figured - thanks for confirming.

Hmm, didn't think about that. Although I am not sure how how badly it would break the VMs running on it. I'll look into it but so far I'm leaning towards using this as an opportunity to try out the "Live Restore" feature of Proxmox Backup Server. Another silly question though - is it possible...

Howdy folks. For years I have been using ZFS replication, has all worked great, been a happy chap. One of the frustrating things that I recall having to deal with is that pools had to have the same names to be used for ZFS replication within Proxmox. I recently had a situation where I had an...