Boot drive soon-to-die - help needed

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dgonzalezh

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I have a 2-node proxmox cluster a Dell R710 and an Asus laptop, the boot disk on the Dell R710 is starting to throw random SMART errors and I know at some point it's going to fail, my VMs are all on zfs over iscsi, so at least that's taken care of, but I want to know what to do to either dd the disk to another smaller 120GB SSD, still need to figure it out / learn it or if I can just take a backup of important files on the soon-to-die drive, do a fresh install on another drive and restore the files?. I do not want to mess this up so I ask beforehand so you guys can point out articles, howtos, instructions that can help on this risky task.

TIA.
 
Harald Oehlmann said:
As long, as you have running VM's, I would recommend to make a backup of each VM, reinstall proxmox with the new drive, and undo the backup.
At least, you have a clean install.
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Thanks for your reply, so even if VMs and backups are all on network storage, backup is advised?.

On the other hand how do I restore the HA and Cluster I have already running?, do i follow the HOWTO to remove a node and then re-add it?, I think I saw that on the proxmox wiki.

Thanks again.
 
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