Hi everyone!
I am browsing the Proxmox forum since months, but now its time for my first post
While this is true, and I subscribe to it, still, it would be much easier/comfortable to have some better automation for it. There are not many use cases, but hey, in the case you need it, it is annoying to execute the same commands again and again.
Sometimes you need offline backups, or you just don't have the "luxury" of a second host for the pve backup server, or your private network is not as good/fast as a usb3.0 connection. I know, a no-go for enterprise use, but for home labs, this is not uncommon.
That's why I created some rules and a service with a bash script that work on PVE 8 / Debian 12. To be honest, I did not analyze the exact procedure how this was done for pve7, maybe similar to this. Because of some deprecated dependencies in pve I also slightly modified those services, to avoid broken boot-ups already discussed somewhere else in the forum.
It was tested on PVEs with lvm storage. I can't guarantee that this will work with ZFS storages, but there is a good chance that it will. Feedback is welcome. Maybe a new topic should be opened for this. You find further infos the Readme on Github:
Github: Automount for Proxmox 8
Important to note: You still need to do the 5. step (mentioned by @Mulvak) manually, but you do this once, and the next time you plug in the same storage, it will be already available in the Web. GUI.
I like the idea of open source and I am thankful for PVE, that's why I wanted to contribute to the community with my input.
I am browsing the Proxmox forum since months, but now its time for my first post
While this is true, and I subscribe to it, still, it would be much easier/comfortable to have some better automation for it. There are not many use cases, but hey, in the case you need it, it is annoying to execute the same commands again and again.
Sometimes you need offline backups, or you just don't have the "luxury" of a second host for the pve backup server, or your private network is not as good/fast as a usb3.0 connection. I know, a no-go for enterprise use, but for home labs, this is not uncommon.
That's why I created some rules and a service with a bash script that work on PVE 8 / Debian 12. To be honest, I did not analyze the exact procedure how this was done for pve7, maybe similar to this. Because of some deprecated dependencies in pve I also slightly modified those services, to avoid broken boot-ups already discussed somewhere else in the forum.
It was tested on PVEs with lvm storage. I can't guarantee that this will work with ZFS storages, but there is a good chance that it will. Feedback is welcome. Maybe a new topic should be opened for this. You find further infos the Readme on Github:
Github: Automount for Proxmox 8
Important to note: You still need to do the 5. step (mentioned by @Mulvak) manually, but you do this once, and the next time you plug in the same storage, it will be already available in the Web. GUI.
I like the idea of open source and I am thankful for PVE, that's why I wanted to contribute to the community with my input.
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