Hello all,
I've always used Proxmox standalone but now I'm trying to build something like this:
I'm running two Proxmox 4.4 Servers on two identical HP Machines.
SERVER 1 is supposed to be the "productive" live system and SERVER 2 is there to take over in case SERVER 1 fails. There is no external Storage and no extra machine available - so I won't be able to build a cluster.
What I'd like to do is to create a NFS share on SERVER 2 (the backup system) and mount it in SERVER 1 (the live system). Then somehow configure the live system to do daily live snapshots of the KVM VMs on this mounted volume.
In case of emergency (SERVER 1 fails) I'd be able to restore the snapshots on SERVER 2 and be up and running within minutes. I don't need instant recovery - the snapshot from the night before would be just fine.
I've set everything up so far, but being not really experienced with LVM and the storage model I'm on a dead end now:
lvdisplay shows me 68 GB on /dev/pve/root which is, if I'm correct, mounted as /var/lib/vz
Then there is 180 GB in the data volume, but I have no idea where this is mounted. It shows as local-lvm in storage view. Now I'm a bit confused in which volume to use to setup the NFS export on SERVER 2, expecially since "data" seems to have no mountpoint in the filesystem and I'd be therefore unable to create a folder and export it.
I was also unable to find any settings on SERVER 1 about where to define which backup volume to use for snapshots
I can take a snapshot in the GUI, but I haven't found a way to edit the settings to save the snapshots on a different storage - like my NFS export (if I ever succeed with that)
I know this is a bit long for a first post - please don't tear me apart
I've always used Proxmox standalone but now I'm trying to build something like this:
I'm running two Proxmox 4.4 Servers on two identical HP Machines.
SERVER 1 is supposed to be the "productive" live system and SERVER 2 is there to take over in case SERVER 1 fails. There is no external Storage and no extra machine available - so I won't be able to build a cluster.
What I'd like to do is to create a NFS share on SERVER 2 (the backup system) and mount it in SERVER 1 (the live system). Then somehow configure the live system to do daily live snapshots of the KVM VMs on this mounted volume.
In case of emergency (SERVER 1 fails) I'd be able to restore the snapshots on SERVER 2 and be up and running within minutes. I don't need instant recovery - the snapshot from the night before would be just fine.
I've set everything up so far, but being not really experienced with LVM and the storage model I'm on a dead end now:
lvdisplay shows me 68 GB on /dev/pve/root which is, if I'm correct, mounted as /var/lib/vz
Then there is 180 GB in the data volume, but I have no idea where this is mounted. It shows as local-lvm in storage view. Now I'm a bit confused in which volume to use to setup the NFS export on SERVER 2, expecially since "data" seems to have no mountpoint in the filesystem and I'd be therefore unable to create a folder and export it.
I was also unable to find any settings on SERVER 1 about where to define which backup volume to use for snapshots
I can take a snapshot in the GUI, but I haven't found a way to edit the settings to save the snapshots on a different storage - like my NFS export (if I ever succeed with that)
I know this is a bit long for a first post - please don't tear me apart
