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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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Why I Buy Enterprise Drives for My Home Lab
I’ve purchased a lot of hard drives for my home lab over the years, and for quite a while now most of them have had two things in common: they’re enterprise drives, and they’re used. That combination probably sounds questionable to some people. Why put years-old drives pulled from somebody else’s server into machines holding…
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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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Why I’m Still Running Dell PowerEdge R720s in 2026
My two Dell PowerEdge R720s are old. Really old. Dell introduced the R720 generation in 2012, which makes recommending one as a server in 2026 sound a little ridiculous. Yet I have two of them running 24/7 in my home lab, and I don’t currently have any plans to replace them. It’s not because they’re…
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