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Rebuilding My Aging Plex Server: Linux Mint 19.3 to Mint 22.3
I have been running Plex for a long time. Like a lot of things in my home lab, the Plex server has been upgraded and modified over the years, but the underlying operating system hasn’t received nearly as much attention. It has just worked. My current Plex server is a virtual machine running Linux Mint…
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PVE Backups vs. Proxmox Backup Server: Why I Use Both
When my home servers ran ESXi, Veeam (the Community edition for the server backups) kept the critical VMs protected, and did that extremely well. It is a product I’ve used at home and the office for almost the same amount of time. When I migrated the servers completely to Proxmox, I suddenly had two different…
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Viewing SMART data of SAS and SATA drives on my R720s from Proxmox using Smartmontools
I found a very useful trick to read SAS drive data when the disks are behind my Dell H710P RAID controller on my PowerEdge servers. Normally RAID controllers hide SMART/SCSI logs. But smartctl can tunnel through the controller. Step 1 — Install smartmontools on Proxmox. On your Proxmox host: Step 2 — List the drives…
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