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    [SOLVED] Copying files from host machine to LXC

    Hi everyone, Thanks in advance for reading. I had about 4 TB of videos I wanted on a samba server. The samba server is an Ubuntu 22.04 LXC and is working just fine. All of the videos were on my laptop so I moved them to an external HDD, plugged it in to the server, mounted it on the pve host...
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    VM File Server Storage on Proxmox

    Hi all, I'm newbie on proxmox and linux as well. I'm looking for an advice on how to configure a vm file server (Debian) with storage attached (not included in the VM) I have a nuc with two hard drive, the first one dedicated for Proxmox and VM and I would like to use the second one (ext4...
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    Moving Served Files From Host to Container

    Hey guys, I just updated the BIOS and Proxmox to the latest version for each, and wanted to tackle one more issue. I've been hosting a couple network drives on my Proxmox host, basically just a network directory for music and one for torrents. I play music SOMETIMES from this directory, but...
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    HELP!! I am having problems uploading .ISO images

    The % calculator just keeps restarting? I don't ask a lot of questions on here. I like figuring out things on my own, but, I need help. I am >| |< that close to having my home lab set up to begin my self training on ethical hacking. I still have several .ISO images I need to upload. I was...
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    Help deciding how to share ZFS pools across my home network?

    I have two ZFS pools with multiple mount points for various datasets. I want to share those across my home network. In reading around there seem to be a lot of ways to do that and no consensus so I thought I'd try to explain my use case and get advice. I mainly run linux machines, but I do...
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    solutions for a storage file server

    I have to retire an obsolete physical linux samba file server, with mapped shares on workstations, and migrate service on existing infrastructure of 2 proxmox nodes and microsoft active directory domain. Currently the server provides shares to about 80 users that will be integrated into the...
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    Windows Server als File-Server-VM sehr langsam

    Ich habe folgendes Problem mit meiner Windows-Server-VM und hatte gehofft, dass man mir hier vielleicht helfen könne: Ein Speedtest der Festplatten-Geschwindigkeit in der Windows-Server-VM zeigt mir sehr schnelle R/W Speeds an. Wenn ich dies jedoch mit einer anderen VM teste und auf das...
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    Step by Step Install w EFI, ZFS, SSD cache, File Server

    Install Proxmox on a Dell R510 server (12 SCSI/SATA bays) with the following criteria: UEFI boot ZFS mirrored boot drives Large Drive support (> 2TB) SSD-backed caching (a Sun F20 flash accelerator with 96GB of cache on 4 chips) Home File Server There were lots of “gotchas” in the process...
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    Disk Passed Through to KVM Errors When Starting the KVM

    Hi, When I start my fileserver KVM VM from the console I see the following error: WARNING: Image format was not specified for '/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HTS721010A9E630_JG40006PG0EVED' and probing guessed raw. Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on...