That's not Jeff! *Holds up Drink* Never mind that's Jeff. RIP Hair.

Way out of date, but useful enough to be able to work out how to back up Proxmox 8.2. Thank you so much for this tutorial.

Great video Jeff. I really appreciate finding some more advanced Proxmox VE content. It definitely give me ideas for where I want my home lab to go. Cheers!

I've always wanted you to do more of the shorter informational type videos like this, rather than just several hour 'news' live streams....great content! Giving up your day job can only take this channel in one direction.... ↑

Bravo Jeff, I stumbled across your videos this week and was very impressed with your content. Especially how well you presented setting up Proxmox with FreeNAS. I wish I had seen this turorial years ago when we had to upgrade some clustered servers with Proxmox ver 4 and I remember spending numerous hours planning how to migrate to new hardware with minimal downtime. I no longer look after Proxmox but did enjoy working with it and this video brought back memories. I was also interested in how freeNAS integrated with Proxmox but never had the time to try it as we we used dedicated SANs for shared storage. It was great that you were able to show me this with your videos. Proxmox can be a challenge understanding networking and storage commands if not familiar with Linux but once running Proxmox is pretty straight forward to manage from the web interface.

I already knew how to do all of this but still enjoyed watching this to see your point of view on how to do it. These are the types of video's I keep coming back to this channel for honestly. Things that informative and beneficial to me and my own homelab.

@TheRogueBro

4 жыл бұрын

I love watching how others do this stuff as sometimes there may be something they do slightly different that could help improve your workflow

@FSULAUBACH

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRogueBro Agreed! Its interesting to see how others do things a certain way. Keep up the great work!

Was just looking for how to restore an old backup from Proxmox Backup server when a test machine wouldn't come back after being down for several months. Pretty happy I can restore it right on to the primary server for maintenance, couldn't figure out how to bring it back from PBS until I skimmed this video. Thanks dude! Finally subscribing, and cheers.

Honestly i think your haircut looks so much better and more fresh if you like! and i REALLY like the tutorials section which you are taking up again. Thanks Jeff!

Like the new look man. I learn a lot from you. I'm building a promox soon and will use your guide to help me out along the way. Thanks a lot

Thank you for showing this! Just tried it with an important vm and it worked flawlessly!

Enjoyed the video and I love Proxmox. Replicating and snapshotting made easy. Thanks for all the tutorials.

Great video and I love the way you describe the beer!

Thanks for this Video! Awesome to talk about Proxmox and the things one can do with it.

Thanks for this tutorial Craft! I helped me to easily migrate my proxmox Containers and VM's to a new server!

Love the haircut! And the Let's Get Crafty Shirt is back!!! Yay!!!! Can't wait til we can buy some CraftComputing merch! ;)

Great video as always! Straightforward and understandable 👍

Excellent video. I had to restore my VMs, as I accidentally deleted the linux kernel on my proxmox box. Good thing the restore process is so straightforward!

@bryannagorcka1897

3 жыл бұрын

Wait. You what? But how.

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

Jeff, Excellent Tutorial Sir - Thank You!

I am seriously glad that I spent my childhood listening to and understanding Spock so that I was able to hear (and understand) Sheldon to gear up to Jeff, the informational Autobahn

Good stuff, excited for more vids!

THANK YOU!!! You save me a lot of research !! Great video!

Can't wait to see a video on Proxmox Backup Server (currently in beta)

I like how you gave Pi-Hole 4 CPU's and 3GB of ram. Glad to see some more Proxmox stuff though as I have been playing/testing/messing around with Proxmox since your last video on it. I'm interested in the clustering feature, so that's what I am personally going to mess with next!

@TheRogueBro

4 жыл бұрын

Luckily i'm subscribed so i don't miss that tutorial ;-)

Good to see alternative procedures to using Proxmox Backup Server

Señor, muchas gracias! Keep pushing!

This makes me appreciate more my 2-node/qdevice cluster setup with ZFS replication and migration.

@cattigereyes1

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting,

@matthewkriebel7342

4 жыл бұрын

Have you figured out a way to have replication and migration both available at the same time? There was a post about this a while ago, and it boiled down to the disk sync used by live migration isn’t compatible with the ZFS send/receive used for replication.

@jgould30

4 жыл бұрын

@@matthewkriebel7342 on proxmox? If so that feature was added multiple releases back. It works just fine, use it all the time. 3 nodes with local ZFS, relocation between nodes, migrate to replication node when I need to do maintenance. Freenas is my backup target for proxmox, nfs storage for iso/container templates, cifs shares, etc.

@sgtpepperaut3392

3 жыл бұрын

@@jgould30 is the freenas a VM inside proxmox or an extra box? are the 3 nodes all on local network? i am playing with a 2 node setup home to hoffice but bandwidth is only about 20mbits up down. wonder if zfs replication helps here since it transfers difference and not entire files.

@bbuggediffy

2 жыл бұрын

Why are you running pihole on a VM? Thst is massively overkill for a simple Linux application. Learn to use LXC containers with your Proxmox install!

God damn, this video helped me so much. If you're ever in Nottingham I'll buy you a beer!

As Always your way to explain is awsome :D Please do more with proxmox and other hypervisors !

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

Quite a bit more coming!

Proxmox just updated to a new backup system, beta version. I would love a video on that.

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

I saw that announcement last night! Definitely on my list to check out!

So. Been playing around with Proxmox for a week or two now. already changed hardware configs around and this specific tutorial was really helpful for backing up and restoring the VM's rather than worrying about recreating them. Although I stored my VM's on a CIFS share to my NAS rather than having to worry about FTP. Just mounted the share on the new setup and restored. I tried different compression methods and the slow yet high compression really saves on space but takes around 5 times as long to perform the backup and restore. At least on my setup. I'm only running 1gbt.

Great tutorials/videos Jeff. This particular one has helped me a lot as I need to migrate/upgrade ProxMox on my home/home office network. On the "beer" subject....Not sure where your based but, if you can get it, give "Punk IPA" by Brewdog.

Thanks. Nice. Simple. Clear.

Yeah I'm going to need to set up a ProxMox server. i've got several dell Poweredge boxes (socket 1366) sitting here doing nothing. just have to find a good spot to stash one since I don't have a dedicated rack setup yet. Other projects keep getting in the way.

@waffleMccoy

4 жыл бұрын

I just remove all the important stuff off the useless case and set everything up in nice, comfy, bread crate and stack em'. better AND cheap.

@Shane-Singleton

3 жыл бұрын

@@waffleMccoy I've got some stacking wire shelves which the manufacturer claim will support 350 pounds on each shelf. I've got an R510 and an R710 stashed there for now and have Proxmox up and running. Although when I get my disk shelf set up for the TrueNAS Core setup that will need the rack. I have the rack. Just haven't figured out where I want to put it, yet.

This was very helpful. Thanks.

good job! I had lots of help from your.

Great video thanks !

Good video Jeff! I’ve been thinking about running a few VMs on my Synology NAS, maybe proxmox is the better way to go? Which VMs do you run on Prox besides Pi-Hole?

Nice job Jeff

I know this video is old but you just saved me a headache. I have 3 Proxmox servers and 1 truenas server. I was attempting to create a vm on both Proxmox server 1 and 2 and backing up 1 to 2 and 2 to 1 but instead now I’m just backing up all Proxmox servers to my truenas 🤣. I’m new to all of this so thank you.

@5:29 "And by the power of editing, the file has transfered" :)

MAX backup this option, saved my space disk data !!! thanks for explain

Nice tutorial!

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy!

Nice and tidy one

Thanks Jeff!

Thanks, installed a Proxmox backup server, and 6.1 doesn't list it as an option, so needed to get creative on moving it over to a fresh install of 8. this fits the bill, kudo's!

This is excellent! I only just started using Proxmox in the last day or two and while I don't have anything elaborate as your home set up, the information in this video was exactly what I was after! I noticed you run a VM for a VPN - is there a video around that? What are the details around that server?

Two comments / suggestions.. First, you should be using LXC CT's for almost all of your virtualization instead of using VM's.. LXC it's way better in most cases! Second, you should be using NFS to share your FreeNAS / TrueNAS CORE Pools to your Proxmox Servers, you should get better performance speed by doing so and it's easier to setup than SMB / CIFS. Keep up your good work! As always, nice content! Cheers 🍻

@aw1cks

4 жыл бұрын

Or even better, iSCSI

@bryannagorcka1897

3 жыл бұрын

@@fbifido2 iSCSI does

very informative - thank you. One question: how to migrate the Proxmox itself from old ssd to new ssd? I have only one M2 slot so I am not sure how to replace old small ssd to the new one - do I need to reinstall Proxmox from zero on the new SSD and only then restore all VMs?

Very good!!!!

RIP in peace, hair

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

Good riddance!

Hello Jeff, assuming you don't, if you had a great RAID controller and a bunch of entrerprise quality disks/ssd, would you still use ZFS for the local storage?

Wow cool, this guy drinks beer. What a badass

Great video, sir. Thanks for your sharing. Sir, I have a question in mind -- How can we migrate from Proxmox VM to VMware?

Good tuto

Great video, very helpful for setting up my backups. :) How easily can I rename a Proxmox server in case I want to use the same name on new hardware?

Backups are so easy to make and restore. I’m sold on virtualization. Before proxmox , I use docker compose and docker containers to run a variety of applications. No more. proxmox makes such things easy to manage from the Web console. I’ll probably still pick up Rancher , but it’s not as necessary as before for my needs.

Good video, one question, which ftp service do you have active, it does not let me access with the root user to the ftp and also does not let me give permissions to another user created

great video. i have a question. how do you restore a vm backup to another vm with a larger storage or disk? thanks

Great video! I like these „server stuff“ videos. Do you mind telling us about your backup strategy for all of your rigs?

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

I'm going to be doing a couple videos on backups very soon!

thank for information

Great tutorial. I wish there could be an easy way to just transfer the backups directly from one server to the other :D

Can't wait for the clustering video. When you do that can you show saving snapshots between proxmox clusters? (For DR?)

Hello thank you for your video, and i have a question, from the beginning, i install Proxmox on SSD 256gb without raid, is there any option backup to backup Proxmox os just in case my SSD suddenly died, i can restore to new SSD and continue running immediately my server?

I double clicked on the hair, but it did not undo 🙄 Great job sir 😂👍

Hi, do you know how to back up Linux physical server to VM in Poxmox? Thanks (Just the partition with data/system, not the whole disk).

Thank you, would like to see "fine tuning" of proxmox server by the pro. Like priority, may be hardware priority. For example I'd like to put 1 vm top priority over my slow hdd drives. If there is such a thing.Or may be fine tuning of linux servers in general, like settings in kernel for example. Thanks.

Thank you.!

Hello, thanks for the videos, they are very helpful for proxmox users. I would like to know if you can make a video about the configuration of UPS units for automatic shutdown of virtual machines and proxmox in case of a power failure.

Ut oh, Heff (Evil Jeff) is hosting his first video. Here we go!!

basically it sounds like i just need to make backups to my synology. decom my current machine, rebuild and restore from network storage. Which type of backup is the safest?

Why not to use rsync or scp to copy files between nodes? And why not to join both nodes to single cluster and use live migration minimising downtime time to near zero?

I was using freenas bhyve, mainly because I didn't have different hardware, tried proxmox and I'm hooked, it's fast, bhyve I think is resource intensive

Thanks for this, it was a life-saver today. I'm often encountering things like this with Proxmox. I'm looking for the 'download/upload' option on those backups but it doesn't exist and you have to fettle with ssh/scp. I'm sometimes surprised they gave us the ISO upload facility!

Good video but I think you can also scp a backup from old local to new local either from one of the two node's shell or from a third computer.

Thank you dude :-)

Your "new" host appears to have already had the other VMs migrated to it. As you switched back and forth between the two hosts, I saw that the VMs were running, on both hosts. Were those indeed different VMs just with the same numbering convention you used, or were they the same VMs running on two hosts? In a domain environment, that would be bad, very bad. In a home environment, that probably isn't a big deal as long as its temporary. But if those are the same VMs, you have two machines running with the same IP as the config moved over to the new host as part of the backup. Just curious if they were indeed different VMs, but same numbering, or you were aware of this and just hadn't shut the VMs down on the old host?

I noticed that KSM was at 0 on both of your Proxmox machines. Did you turn it off? If so, why? I've found KSM to be incredibly useful, especially for low memory systems.

Jeff, Can Proxmox be installed on a Mac Pro 2010 5,1. I know the dual xenon processors are good just not familiar with the bios on a mac pro. Bought it thinking I would use it as a video processor but really want to take advantage of the multiple storage, dual xenon, 8 ram slots ( even though they are set for triple channel instead of dual ...dumb)

Great video Jeff, waiting your video about clustering :). Any plans for a video how better to secure your proxmox servers when they on public IP?

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

I am planning on doing some network and security videos in the future. Still working out exactly how I want to demo that.

great video I really like the step by step explanation,however. wouldn't be easier to rsync the backup files from proxmox to another ,it would saves you the local / NAS copy time

Jeff I have a r620 should I run ProxMox or windows server core for my homelab?

Jeff, would you be able to provide a tutorial for safe online use of ProxMox? I mean, if I get a dedicated server and I want to use ProxMox, how would I disable public access to proxmox web panel and only allow via OpenVPN? How would I open port for the vms inside to host an apache server, for example, so those VM's would work as "VPS"?

Hello, well i m using this tehcnique to backup my vm, but where is incremntal backup ?? to got more day backup on the small datastore space thanks

I'm having an issue with the haircut. Great video!

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

Well I was having issues with it long. You've been overridden :-D

Is there a way to backup the VE itself and not the VMs? And without having another server, just a script or something to copy the files to NAS?

Listening to Jeff about ProxMox makes me feel more techsavy. Also, he has far more hair than me.

You are becoming my virtualization bible. Got sick to death of fighting Hyper-V Server over the last week, span up PVE instead, and now everything is trivially easy in comparison.

@tabascocrimson7865

Жыл бұрын

Hyper-V is the reason why there are anti suicide nets around tall buildings

did you ever make the cluster cleanup vid sine it breaks the access when one goes down

Timely tutorial as I'll be doing this soon so I can upgrade my existing Proxmox server. It's on... some 5.x version and I want to get it up to the latest. Specs on mine: dual Opteron 6278 (32 cores total) with 64GB registered ECC RAM. (I have registered as I accidentally bought that for my NAS, couldn't sell it off, and just decided to buy more to replace the non-ECC RAM I had previously after seeing the prices for it on eBay.)

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

Heh... My server was on 5.4 as well :-) Also, there's a new ProxMox backup server I'll be looking at shortly.

7:02 Am I wrong to believe that even though the restore includes all settings of the VM, if that VM was using vmbr2 for instance on the original server and now the other proxmox server is using a different kind of vmbr like vmbr0 or maybe that vmbr underneath is a sum of a bond which contains 2 ports in Lasp mode, isnt there going to be an issue? What if the VM had attached a second storage (located on the same server) on the original server? i think these two circumstances would create an issue to the VM.

Excelente conteúdo! Parabéns!

I am going to give it a try even though it is an old video, but can tI seem to be able to find anywhere the answer. If you had attached an extra raw storage to the VM you want to transfer, how you could move that extra storage along since it is not file level but block level device and also can t be backed up individually like the VM itself. I am trying to figure this out for months!!!!!

When I backup my Plex which runs under Ubuntu on Proxmox. The backup also tries to backup my PlexMedia which is a local attached SCSI disk to the VM. How do I remove this disk from the backup cycle. As it's 8TB of movies I don't want to back up each time.

Has something changed with the add CIFS option? I'm getting an error: create storage failed: error during cfs-locked 'file-storage_cfg' operation: mount error: Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) (500) on Proxmox I setup a user, associated them to a group for proxmox and then associated that group to the SMB Share in Truenas, I'd like to schedule backups, but not getting past this point.

Can we do live migrations of VMs to new ProxMox host + new attached central storage. if yes please do share a video on that too.

Спасибо за видео 😎👍👍!!

Just from curiosity why didn't you bring 2x NFS Shares on your FreeNAS box. Backup in one of the Shares the old ProxMox VM's and then transfer internally from the freenas CLI the VM's to the other Share and then restore the VM over the new ProxMox box via the NAS Share. Or just use the same Share and de-attach/attach between ProxMox Boxes.

Kinda off topic, but where do you get movie and TV shows for your plex. local store are selling pirated copies, are there any online store?

@CraftComputing

4 жыл бұрын

Mine come entirely from local storage. Ripped copies of physical media I own.

too cool. thx