Installing Proxmox Backup Server on FreeNAS 11.3 as bhyve VM

[Vedat Kamer]

Dear Proxmox Team,

Thank you so much for PBS. It's a game changer product for PVE.

I'm trying to install Proxmox Backup Server on FreeNAS 11.3U3-2 as bhyve VM since it's recommended to separate installation of PBS from PVE.
Installing PBS on FreeNAS can save from using a separate physical server for backups.

Installation fails on this screen:



Do you have any idea how to continue or debug it?

Thank you so much.

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

it looks like your environment does not support grafik or is not set up correctly.
I would recommend you to install Debian first and then use PBS repository to install it on Debian.

 

[mojsiuk]

Did you try this solution with instaling Debian first then PBS? I'm plan to di the same in our enviroment. Much thanks for PBS

 

[Vedat Kamer]

Yes @mojsiuk, I tried. It works. Please also check these URLs to fix the UEFI boot problem:

https://blog.tkrn.io/freenas-11-boot-failed-efi-misc-device-fix-debian/
https://www.jongibbins.com/solving-uefi-boot-problems-on-bhyve-freenas-vm/

 

[varanek]

Did you try this solution with instaling Debian first then PBS? I'm plan to di the same in our enviroment. Much thanks for PBS

Another option is to install as a VM on Proxmox with a VM disk on zfs and use pve-zsync to copy this disk to freenas. Then use it as a disk in the wizard. Surprisingly, it works without further modifications (you just have to set the IP address or MAC address in the settings again)

 

[altano]

Another option is to install as a VM on Proxmox with a VM disk on zfs and use pve-zsync to copy this disk to freenas. Then use it as a disk in the wizard. Surprisingly, it works without further modifications (you just have to set the IP address or MAC address in the settings again)

This seemed easy so I gave it a shot.

Since my zfs pool was already setup as storage on the Proxmox side I created the PBS VM using a 'raw' image and UEFI bios and put the disk on the zfs pool. Once I had PBS installed I went to the TrueNAS server and I used `dd` to copy the .raw image into a zvol. I created a VM with the zvol as the disk and it booted perfectly... except the NIC doesn't have an IP:

How do I "fix" the NIC (which presumably means deleting the old one and making use of the one attached by TrueNAS?)

 

[altano]

This did the trick:

• ip a to get the new interface name (in my case, enp0s4 (see above)
• nano /etc/network/interfaces, change old device name to new one (in two places). My resulting file is:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto enp0s4
iface enp0s4 inet static
        address 192.168.0.19/24
        gateway 192.168.0.1

• Save file (ctrl+x)
• ifup enp0s4 (verify with ip a , https://192.168.0.19:8007 now loads)

 

[altano]

I wrote-up my full instructions here in case anyone wants to set this up like I did. Please give me feedback.

 

[Xenocit]

Yesterday I've installed PBS 3.1-1 from the provided ISO on TrueNAS-13.0-U6.1 VM and everything went smooth like butter - only make sure to NOT opt-in for the graphical install. Just wanted to give heads up to anyone looking for more recent info.