hello everyone,
after a few years I am in the process of setting up a proxmox server again and wanted to ask for your opinion how I want to set everything up.
This is a home server with no need for high availability (no raid needed) but backups are of course important. the main services provided by the proxmox machine will be serving as a NAS, Plex and Nextcloud server. Some additional VMs and Containers will be installed and tested (hence why I am using Proxmox).
storage:
The OS sits on an SSD. 2 more HDDs are in the system, leaving me with one more S-ATA port on the motherboard. Each HDD is used to create an LVM, one for storage and one for backup. I use LVMs so I can more easily increase storage capacity should the need arise. I read about ZFS but since HA is not important for me I could not find advantages when using single disks so I think I will stick to my LVM setup. Any objections?
services:
Plex and nextcloud will each get their own containers but what about the NAS. All I really need is a samba server and NFS shares. So far I had that running on the host. However since I can hand over directories to the Containers (Bind Mount Points) I thought maybe it is more beneficial to put that into a Container as well. Are there any dis/-advantages to that approach? If I do not use a "NAS-Container" is it better to have the Plex and Nextcloud Container access their storage directories through NFS? Any other suggestions?
Backup:
so far all I did was rsync my storage share to my second drive on a daily basis and used the web-gui to backup the Containers regularly. My important data is my audio (mp3) collection and personal documents. I am thinking about syncing this offsite as well. I did not find a proxmox specific backup solution for my use scenario since the web-gui only backs up containers and not directories on the host. The most likely thing to happen to my files is accidental deletion, HDD failure or a virus. Is there something Proxmox VE offers that could help me here or am I looking at using an external tool?
AntiVirus:
Do you guys run it on your file servers? I found ClamAV and Sophos as free solutions. Any recommendations?
Any other remarks are appreciated!
thx in advance and kind regards!
schlucke
//edit:
I browsed the webgui and the documentation and found the following approach: I mount 2 virtual disk images to a Container. Inside the container I do my rsync backup from the shared virtual disk A to the backup shared disk B. vdisk A is on LVM A and vdisk B is on LVM B. Each LVM has only one physical drive. What happens if either of the LVM drives bites the bullet? I assume the proxmox host will continue to work? Will the VM work without the (non-root) vdisk? I guess at that point I have to replace the faulty drive in the LVM, create and mount a new vdisk to the VM and finally copy my data back. Would that work?
after a few years I am in the process of setting up a proxmox server again and wanted to ask for your opinion how I want to set everything up.
This is a home server with no need for high availability (no raid needed) but backups are of course important. the main services provided by the proxmox machine will be serving as a NAS, Plex and Nextcloud server. Some additional VMs and Containers will be installed and tested (hence why I am using Proxmox).
storage:
The OS sits on an SSD. 2 more HDDs are in the system, leaving me with one more S-ATA port on the motherboard. Each HDD is used to create an LVM, one for storage and one for backup. I use LVMs so I can more easily increase storage capacity should the need arise. I read about ZFS but since HA is not important for me I could not find advantages when using single disks so I think I will stick to my LVM setup. Any objections?
services:
Plex and nextcloud will each get their own containers but what about the NAS. All I really need is a samba server and NFS shares. So far I had that running on the host. However since I can hand over directories to the Containers (Bind Mount Points) I thought maybe it is more beneficial to put that into a Container as well. Are there any dis/-advantages to that approach? If I do not use a "NAS-Container" is it better to have the Plex and Nextcloud Container access their storage directories through NFS? Any other suggestions?
Backup:
so far all I did was rsync my storage share to my second drive on a daily basis and used the web-gui to backup the Containers regularly. My important data is my audio (mp3) collection and personal documents. I am thinking about syncing this offsite as well. I did not find a proxmox specific backup solution for my use scenario since the web-gui only backs up containers and not directories on the host. The most likely thing to happen to my files is accidental deletion, HDD failure or a virus. Is there something Proxmox VE offers that could help me here or am I looking at using an external tool?
AntiVirus:
Do you guys run it on your file servers? I found ClamAV and Sophos as free solutions. Any recommendations?
Any other remarks are appreciated!
thx in advance and kind regards!
schlucke
//edit:
I browsed the webgui and the documentation and found the following approach: I mount 2 virtual disk images to a Container. Inside the container I do my rsync backup from the shared virtual disk A to the backup shared disk B. vdisk A is on LVM A and vdisk B is on LVM B. Each LVM has only one physical drive. What happens if either of the LVM drives bites the bullet? I assume the proxmox host will continue to work? Will the VM work without the (non-root) vdisk? I guess at that point I have to replace the faulty drive in the LVM, create and mount a new vdisk to the VM and finally copy my data back. Would that work?
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