Questions - Mount Drives / backup / reboot / keyboard

[johnyb]

Installed latest version, looking forward to playing around (hopefully it's solved the windows boot errors I had...)
Anyway, few questions:-

(1) I want to add another SATA drive, for either additional storage or backup. How do I do this? (sorry dont know anything about linux) Do I mount this drive?

(2) keyboard mapping - how do I get proxmox to use the standard uk keyboard mapping?

(3) Shutdown / reboot command - What syntax do I use for this to work?

(4) Can you backup to a windows share or network share other than linux? If so how can this be done?

Thanks for the great work...

 

[martin]

Installed latest version, looking forward to playing around (hopefully it's solved the windows boot errors I had...)
Anyway, few questions:-

(1) I want to add another SATA drive, for either additional storage or backup. How do I do this? (sorry dont know anything about linux) Do I mount this drive?

you use the second drive to store the backup files. using it for additional space for VM´s is not possible yet (in future versions).

(2) keyboard mapping - how do I get proxmox to use the standard uk keyboard mapping?

on the web interface, go to Configuration/System/Options.

(3) Shutdown / reboot command - What syntax do I use for this to work?

you can use the web interface. on the console you need vzctl (for containers) or qm (for KVM). But the KVM guest has to support acpi commands. For details see the man pages.

man vzctl

man qm

(4) Can you backup to a windows share or network share other than linux? If so how can this be done?

you can mount a windows share for a backup target.
small howto for this:

apt-get install smbfs

mkdir /mnt/backup/

nano /etc/fstab

and add the following (adapt values corresponding your network):

   [LEFT][LEFT]//servername/sharename /mnt/backup cifs username=yourusername,password=SECRET,domain=domainname 0 0[/LEFT]
[/LEFT]

now, you can mount the windows share manually (after reboot its done automatically):

mount //servername/sharename

now, just configure the backup via the web interface, use "/mnt/backup" as destination.
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Thanks for the great work...

we always do our best!

 

[dietmar]

(2) keyboard mapping - how do I get proxmox to use the standard uk keyboard mapping?

I just uploaded a fix, it is now possible to select 'United Kingdom' on the web interface (Configuration/System/Options). Use apt to update the package (apt-get update; apt-get upgrade).

If you did not install from cd, you may also want to change the keyboard for the host console:

install-keymap /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmap.gz

- Dietmar

 

[johnyb]

(1) Ok so how do I mount the drive for backup use?

(3) For some reason the web based shutdown does not work now.. So after manual shutting down all VM's whats the command to shut down? shutdown "now"

(4) At the moment the windows share is on a machine in a workgroup not domain, so how would i change the following line? Tried omitting the domain bit but does not work for me..

//servername/sharename /mnt/backup cifs username=yourusername,password=SECRET,domain=domainname 0 0

Sorry for all the questions, is there somewhere a linux novice can understand basics of command line stuff? Thanks

 

[dietmar]

(1) Ok so how do I mount the drive for backup use?

- partition the new disk with: fdisk /dev/xxx
- create a filesystem wit: mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/xxx
- edit /etc/fstab and add the new disk there
- mount it

(3) For some reason the web based shutdown does not work now.. So after manual shutting down all VM's whats the command to shut down? shutdown "now"

try 'poweroff' and 'reboot' commands.

(4) At the moment the windows share is on a machine in a workgroup not domain, so how would i change the following line? Tried omitting the domain bit but does not work for me..

use workgroup as domainname.

- Dietmar