Zfs

Introduction I know I’m about five years too late too the party, but I’m finally getting around to setting up Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). Right now, I have 10 servers inside my Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) setup, made up of a mix of virtual machines (VMs) and LXC containers (LXCs). I’m currently using the built-in PVE backup system to backup my VMs/LXCs to my NAS. This results in about 250GB of backups, which happen once a week. I keep 12 weeks of backups, so that’s 3TB of backups on my NAS. Even if nothing changes week-to-week on a single VM/LXC, the entire machine is getting backed up every week, taking up the full amount of space. ...

Hey! Listen! This post is part of a series on the DeskMini H470 as a hypervisor. Check them all out! Date URL Part 2022-09-07 Adding a ZFS mirror to Proxmox Add a ZFS mirror to Proxmox 2022-09-02 Adding data center SSDs to the DeskMini H470 Add 2x Intel D3-S4510 to the DeskMini H470 2021-06-23 ASRock DeskMini H470 as a compact hypervisor Initial post about DeskMini H470 Introduction In my last post, I added two Intel D3-S4510 960 SSDs to my ASRock DeskMini H470 running Proxmox. I also upgraded the firmware, as well as ran some basic tests on the drives. In this post, I’ll be creating a ZFS mirror and adding it to Proxmox. ...