Subj : Re: ProxMox, NAS & backups - oh my.
To   : claw
From : paulie420
Date : Tue Jul 05 2022 19:47:02

 cl> Well I've not used proxmox before but I do know on ESXi (VMWare) it likes
 cl> iSCSI.  Basically this will act as an attach SCSI drive but can be
 cl> across the network.  the one real downside it only one server should
 cl> ever use it at a time.  Not to be confused with VMs.  So the drive would
 cl> be dedicated to the server thats using it. Keep in mind as many VMs can
 cl> access this through that server as you like.  I have hear of people
 cl> being successful with using it with more that one device typically with
 cl> PXE booting but then some of them might be in read only mode.  Not worth
 cl> the risk though.  iSCSI will require a whole nother computer to host it
 cl> a PI might do it but I have not worked with it on a PI.  My experience
 cl> was with Ubuntu server.  There is a bit of a learning curve but iSCSI is
 cl> fast and works with most things.  Hopefully a proxmox guru can step in
 cl> and verify it this would be a good route.
 cl> 
 cl> As always if I can be of any assistance let me know.
 
Thanks for your info - my issue is that... I have an x86 server and wanted to use it to RUN the backup server; since have learned reasons why this isn't a great idea... but I don't have several x86 machines sitting around - well, I guess I do if I used ThinkPads; but I don't really wanna go down that half-assed road... I have a plethora of Raspberry Pi's, but PBS  [ProxMox Backup Server] has no ARM arm... :P So at the moment, I'm just building a basic Debian Raspberry Pi instance to go in and suck out the PVE [ProxMox] backups and pull those out to an external drive connected to said RPi. 

It isn't perfect, but hopefully will tide me over until I can dedicate another x86 machine to host PBS. 

Its fun being a shoestring sysOp. w00t w00t.



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