The big migration

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irin

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Hi there my fellow proxmox'rs

First of all im scared as hell

I will be migrating between Windows (current setup) to proxmox

But what to do with al my movies pictures and documents

Ive been playing with proxmox for few weeks now and im impressed with how it works and how powerful it is to a Linux noob like me

Basic things i got to work pretty quickly caddy Cloudflare tunnels and next cloud and many more applications

But now is the Big Jump coming

Deleting Windows
And upgrading to Linux

Now my biggest hurdle is moving all of my data to the new host

So what can you guys suggest me doing to make this as smooth and fool proof as possible

Your's truely
 
Make. A. Backup. Of everything important. NAS with 2-disk failure redundancy, and everything on UPS power is a good place to start.

Full bare-metal backup of Windows installation to separate disk with e.g. Veeam free agent, if you need to back out. And/or install proxmox to new disk and yank physically disconnect the Windows disk beforehand, since proxmox installer wipes the target disk(s) for boot/root.

Postinstall, setup Proxmox Backup Server on separate hardware and take advantage of dedup.
 
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Get a second PC with TrueNAS Scale and setup this PC as your NAS.

But think of ZFS and good HDD NAS drives and SSD SATA III must be enterprice. ones
with the 2-3 SSDs you setup a vdev as zfs special device as mirror with 2-3 ssd drives.
They you can copy your data to that new NAS.
Proxmox VE is only your hypervisor for your lxc or vm.
 
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Well the point is my current black box is an Windows machine 16 core 128 gig monster and it is my nas, back up server, and jellyfin driver

I was as far of removing all disks with the data and only keep my boot ssd in the system while upgrading to proxmox but how do i reïntergrate old Windows disks to proxmox
 
news said:
Get a second PC with TrueNAS Scale and setup this PC as your NAS.

But think of ZFS and good HDD NAS drives and SSD SATA III must be enterprice. ones
with the 2-3 SSDs you setup a vdev as zfs special device as mirror with 2-3 ssd drives.
They you can copy your data to that new NAS.
Proxmox VE is only your hypervisor for your lxc or vm.
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Im not really wanting to add yet another machine to my network and or powerdraw
 
irin said:
Well the point is my current black box is an Windows machine 16 core 128 gig monster and it is my nas, back up server, and jellyfin driver

I was as far of removing all disks with the data and only keep my boot ssd in the system while upgrading to proxmox but how do i reïntergrate old Windows disks to proxmox
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And yes i use the back up master plan so i have copys of the back ups in the cloud and so forth but tbh i really want to keep all inside one machine
 
WinOS has NTFS and this is only Windows 100% on Linux it can work, but..
Setup a second nas with zfs and copy your files to that nas.
 
Proxmox is not a NAS it's a hypervisor.
You can then access the data over your 10 GBit/s network with the common network protokoll for you vm or lxc setup.
TrueNAS Scale has all you "ever" want.
 
news said:
Proxmox is not a NAS it's a hypervisor.
You can then access the data over your 10 GBit/s network with the common network protokoll for you vm or lxc setup.
TrueNAS Scale has all you "ever" want.
Click to expand...

news said:
Proxmox is not a NAS it's a hypervisor.
You can then access the data over your 10 GBit/s network with the common network protokoll for you vm or lxc setup.
TrueNAS Scale has all you "ever" want.
Click to expand...
I get that proxmox is "just" a hyporvisor but i was hopeing to jerryrig everything together in one machine as in running truenas as container in the new host but im understanding from your view is a no go
 
truenas scan can run in a vm, but what about your hdd and ssd, they are bound to proxmox ve.
at your knowledge you better not share devices.
 
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news said:
WinOS has NTFS and this is only Windows 100% on Linux it can work, but..
Setup a second nas with zfs and copy your files to that nas.
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Thank you for giving me food for thoughts

Im gonna pick apart my current setup so... Drives and the new host machine

The new host will only have the "compute" power so ram cpu gpu boot ssd and deep storage for prox
And probably a new nic.

And move the drives to nas with truenas or something (yeay more stuff to learn) found an old am4 board with cpu and some ram

One last question will truenas accept the ntfs drives?
 
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