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PVE Backups vs. Proxmox Backup Server: Why I Use Both
No comments on PVE Backups vs. Proxmox Backup Server: Why I Use BothWhen 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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