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    PBS in a VM on PVE: Suspending/stopping it when not used

    I have PBS running in a VM on PVE. Backup runs once a day during night. Normally there's not mucht to do as not much has changed and dedup does a good job. So PBS returns after 15 to 30 mins. Altough it does not consume much CPU and RAM during the rest of the day, I still wonder if it makes...
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    How to spin down temporarily unused hard drives

    Hi there, I have a small home server with 5 hard drives. 4 of those just contain movies and since I just watch a couple of movies per week it would be ideal to shut the drives down when they are not in use. From what I read, the problem is pvestatd which spins the drives up right after they...