How to use PBS with only 2 drives

[da-alb]

Hi, I have a small server at home with only 2 HDD drives, how can I use them to boot and store data on it?

Thanks

 

[sterzy]

Hi,

not sure what aspect you are struggling with, you could set up one smaller drive as a boot disk and add the second as datastore. Or you add them to a zfs pool and create new datasets through zfs, mount them and tell pbs to use them as datastores. Does that help?

 

[da-alb]

Hi,

not sure what aspect you are struggling with, you could set up one smaller drive as a boot disk and add the second as datastore. Or you add them to a zfs pool and create new datasets through zfs, mount them and tell pbs to use them as datastores. Does that help?

Thanks, that might work, I haven't thought about it.

 

[Dunuin]

Also keep in mind that you don't want to store your PBS datastore and PVE VMs/LXCs on the same pool/array/disk. So that when your disk dies you don't loose your VMs/LXCs and all backups at the same time. So in case you want to run PVE and PBS on the same machine I would recommend to use a dedicated HDD (or better SSD if you care about downtime) for your PBS.

 

[da-alb]

Also keep in mind that you don't want to store your PBS datastore and PVE VMs/LXCs on the same pool/array/disk. So that when your disk dies you don't loose your VMs/LXCs and all backups at the same time. So in case you want to run PVE and PBS on the same machine I would recommend to use a dedicated HDD (or better SSD if you care about downtime) for your PBS.

Of course I wouldn't

 

[da-alb]

Thanks for the answers, I'm buying a new SSD for the OS, data will be saved on a ZFS Mirror, I'm also using ecc ram so I expect everything to work just fine.