Proxmox

ISO Images

Helper Scripts

Backups

USB Passthrough

Tailscale

Dashboard

Monitoring Proxmox with InfluxDB and Grafana

Proxmox 7 InfluxDB2 (importable premade dashboard)

Backup Storage

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Default /etc/pve/storage.cfg¹

Default config

dir: local
        path /var/lib/vz
        content iso,vztmpl,backup

# default image store on LVM based installation
lvmthin: local-lvm
        thinpool data
        vgname pve
        content rootdir,images

# default image store on ZFS based installation
zfspool: local-zfs
        pool rpool/data
        sparse
        content images,rootdir

Create a new LV. The default volume group is pve and there's a thin-lvm called data. This can be confirmed with the vgs and lvs CLI commands. The new LV will show up as a device in /dev/pve/...

Create new LV

lvcreate -n pve-backups -V 200G pve/data

Make a new filesystem on the LV

Create filesystem

mkfs.ext4 /dev/pve/pve-backups

Set up the automatic mounting

Echo to fstab

echo '/dev/pve/pve-backups /mnt/pve-backups ext4 defaults 0 2' >> /etc/fstab

Add a new "Directory" storage in the Proxmox GUI at the Datacenter level

• Directory needs to match the mount point
• Content needs to ahve VZDump backup files enabled

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1. Storage Configuration ↩