I’ve got 3 HDDs connected to my Proxmox machine via usb3. They worked fine until this week. I have them mounted and passed through to OMV.

One failed on Sunday. It was fine one minute, I rebooted and Proxmox wouldn’t boot…

Couldn’t work out why it wouldn’t boot and reflashed Proxmox, losing all my machines (I have since learned the importance of backups since I had none).

I’ve spent 4 days rewriting it all. Rebooted last night and it happened again, but this time I noticed that it was struggling to find one of my drives and edited them out of Fstab and got it booting again.

I’ve since added 2/3 drives back in by adding “nofail” to my Fstab entries but my main storage drive is now showing as 100gb instead of 1tb and won’t pass through to OMV.

I’ve come to the conclusion that they were mounted by label and “forgot” their label, hence wouldn’t boot, they’re now mounted by UUID.

So has anyone got any tips on the best way to mount these things without killing my whole setup?

Also if anyone knows why my storage is showing as 100gb in Proxmox and won’t pass through to OMV now I would be eternally grateful. Kinda want to get the files off that drive…

  • SmashEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I hope you are doing 3-2-1 backups now

    • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Not quite there yet. I need to add the CIFS connection to Proxmox now to save to the drives (I’ll have to do a little research). I still have to set up the Google Drive add-on in Home Assistant again, and set it up properly this time so it actually schedules backups.

      Also need to figure out how to off site backup my Proxmox backups. More research

      Edit: worked out CIFS to Proxmox now, got a backup solution. Just have to work out how to get them off-site but I could maybe have my PC pull the files for now and maybe sync to Drive as off-site.

      Edit2: Gdrive add-on added and set up in Home Assistant now.

      I’m giving you these updates because you held me to account on the backup side, and I appreciate that. I had my head in setting my server back up, not back-ups. So thanks!

      • SmashEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I also use Proxmox Backup Server to backup my VMs. These and the files of my NAS get copied on one of two 22TB HDDs, which I swap out weekly from my fireproof safe. My PC files get synced on my NAS through GoodSync and my Smartphone NeoBackups via Syncthing. My PC also does a Disk2VHD image every month and TrueNAS keeps daily snapshots for two months.

        I lost 2TB of data about 15 years ago, I vowed to never let this happen again