Sharing an HD over my LAN

lumox

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Hi,

Is there any way to share over my LAN a HD installed in Proxmox and used as a vzdump directory for my VMS backup?

I would like to get access to it from my Windows PC.
Thanks
 
You probably can access the data already via scp / sftp.
Use filezilla to connect to the proxmox host and browse to the desired directory.

If you want to access from windows explorer then I dont see another way than installing/configuring Samba on the proxmox host itself.
 
You probably can access the data already via scp / sftp.
Use filezilla to connect to the proxmox host and browse to the desired directory.

If you want to access from windows explorer then I dont see another way than installing/configuring Samba on the proxmox host itself.

That's right! I can access the data via Filezilla. I didn't imagine that it was really that simple. Thanks.

PS: Would it be still possible to get access to a HD I passthrough to PBS (Proxmox backup server)?
 
I dont know PBS but it really depends on how data is stored there. You could try to connect to the PBS server and access files again through filezilla or install Samba within PBS.

Accessing the disk itself won't work. Windows won't understand the filesystem and the second (more severe) issue is that once multiple systems access the same disk, they need to access through a cluster filesystem or at least a coordination layer - which isn't there ;)
 
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I dont know PBS but it really depends on how data is stored there. You could try to connect to the PBS server and access files again through filezilla or install Samba within PBS.

Accessing the disk itself won't work. Windows won't understand the filesystem and the second (more severe) issue is that once multiple systems access the same disk, they need to access through a cluster filesystem or at least a coordination layer - which isn't there ;)

I was talking about accessing it via filezilla only as you suggested me above, but I would like to passthrough the new HD first as it is explained here in this tutorial (from minute 03:10):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLBNm0fNIog

Thanks