Subj : Re: ProxMox, NAS & backups - oh my. To : paulie420 From : claw Date : Tue Jul 05 2022 18:18:25 On 04 Jul 2022, paulie420 said the following... pa> Some of you know that I recently moved 2o bbS over to the ProxMox server pa> - and that has been wonderful. Its running great, got all the little pa> bugs ironed out [mostly!] and am enjoying both the .qcow format that the pa> VM is saved in, and PVE [ProxMox] backups that run easily and are easy pa> to handle. pa> pa> I also have a NAS, still running on a Raspberry Pi, that will shortly pa> find ITS way over to the ProxMox host... when I created the NAS I was pa> struggling a bit with understanding permissions and... does pa> openmediavault need a USER account to give permissions to the bbS box to pa> read/write to the NFS share, and... just exactly grasping how it w0rks. pa> Got it setup - but wonder if I could have tighter settings, or do better pa> with fully understanding how those permissions work... pa> pa> Today I find ProxMox Backup Server. It looks GREAT, and it can do pa> automated things much better than simply using the backups tab in PVE... pa> so I'm excited to use it as a solution to do all backups for my various pa> PVE VMs. However, PBS [ProxMox Backup Server] prefers you to have a pa> physical drive for those backups... since its running ON the PVE, thats pa> not super easy to do - while I could give one of my server drives to it, pa> I don't really want to make that change... I don't think. It will accept pa> NAS/NFS mounts as a DataShare, but I'm again running into permissions pa> issues. PBS won't let me mount the thing - even after I created a pa> SEPARATE NFS share and made sure it had read/write perms... I know I'm pa> just not understanding things... pa> pa> Just venting, not asking for explanations - I would accept any 'newbie' pa> websites that people might suggest; but I get the best information pa> directly from the services above's documentation. It certainly could be pa> easier, but I hope in the end I can create a setup that is secure and pa> ISN'T just set to wide open... the controls within all of these systems pa> is great; you just have to be a knowledgable sysOp. :P Thats the hard pa> bit. pa> pa> Having fun in techno-land... still learning how to string em' all pa> together. pa> pa> pAULIE42o Well I've not used proxmox before but I do know on ESXi (VMWare) it likes iSCSI. Basically this will act as an attach SCSI drive but can be across the network. the one real downside it only one server should ever use it at a time. Not to be confused with VMs. So the drive would be dedicated to the server thats using it. Keep in mind as many VMs can access this through that server as you like. I have hear of people being successful with using it with more that one device typically with PXE booting but then some of them might be in read only mode. Not worth the risk though. iSCSI will require a whole nother computer to host it a PI might do it but I have not worked with it on a PI. My experience was with Ubuntu server. There is a bit of a learning curve but iSCSI is fast and works with most things. Hopefully a proxmox guru can step in and verify it this would be a good route. As always if I can be of any assistance let me know. |23|04Dr|16|12Claw |16|14Sysop |12Noverdu |14BBS |04(|14Noverdu.com|04) |10Standard Ports for SSH/Telnet Web/HTTP://|14Noverdu.com:808 |20|15fsxNet/MRC Chat/Registered Doors!/50Nodes/No Time Use! Stay On!|16|07 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64) * Origin: Noverdu BBS (21:1/210) .