Hello,
I enjoyed using Proxmox 3 for years, now decided to upgrade to Proxmox 5. After MANY hours of confusion I decided to ask the experts for a hint how to proceed.
In Proxmox 3 after installation I had the following situation:
/dev/mapper/pve-root was mounted to the root directory (100GB)
/dev/mapper/pve-data was mounted to /var/lib/vz (the remaining large space)
I installed a NFS server, created the directory /var/lib/vz/nfs/ and exported that directory to a second server (a NFS client).
With Proxmox->Datacenter->Storage->Add and then ID=nfs-local, server=localhost, Export=/var/lib/vz/nfs/ I created the storage "nfs-local".
This allowed me to use the space of /dev/mapper/pve-data for the CT/VM AND for the Backups of these CT/VM (the backups went to storage "nfs-local") with the pleasant properties that
(1) I did not had to decide about the space for the storage of CT/VM and the space for the storage of backups in advance (i.e. at time of installation by defining two partitions for that)
(2) the second server (NFS Client) had an easy access to the backup files in order to store them at a safe place.
My question is how this situation (one partition/volume/... [or whatever the correct name is] for the CT/VM AND for the backup files as well as a NFS access to the backup files) could be achieved with Proxmox 5?
I would really appreciate if you could help me, since I do not like the idea of going back to proxmox 4.1 (which has the old file system structure), rather I want to learn how the new features work.
Kind regards,
Ralf
I enjoyed using Proxmox 3 for years, now decided to upgrade to Proxmox 5. After MANY hours of confusion I decided to ask the experts for a hint how to proceed.
In Proxmox 3 after installation I had the following situation:
/dev/mapper/pve-root was mounted to the root directory (100GB)
/dev/mapper/pve-data was mounted to /var/lib/vz (the remaining large space)
I installed a NFS server, created the directory /var/lib/vz/nfs/ and exported that directory to a second server (a NFS client).
With Proxmox->Datacenter->Storage->Add and then ID=nfs-local, server=localhost, Export=/var/lib/vz/nfs/ I created the storage "nfs-local".
This allowed me to use the space of /dev/mapper/pve-data for the CT/VM AND for the Backups of these CT/VM (the backups went to storage "nfs-local") with the pleasant properties that
(1) I did not had to decide about the space for the storage of CT/VM and the space for the storage of backups in advance (i.e. at time of installation by defining two partitions for that)
(2) the second server (NFS Client) had an easy access to the backup files in order to store them at a safe place.
My question is how this situation (one partition/volume/... [or whatever the correct name is] for the CT/VM AND for the backup files as well as a NFS access to the backup files) could be achieved with Proxmox 5?
I would really appreciate if you could help me, since I do not like the idea of going back to proxmox 4.1 (which has the old file system structure), rather I want to learn how the new features work.
Kind regards,
Ralf