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  • Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 2

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    The setup described in this article will work if you have a followed the first article in this series however it is not an optimal setup. Once you’ve read the next article in this series you’ll understand the weaknesses in the setup described here and how to fix them. This article also covers a couple…

  • Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 1

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    The first thing many people do with their home server is set up file sharing. If you’re running an OS such as TrueNAS this is really simple, but I’m running Proxmox so that I can also easily run virtual machines and this has one big downside: Proxmox is not really set up to act as…

  • Automatically Scrubbing ZFS Under Proxmox

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    I thought this one was going to be a challenge to set up but it turns out it’s set up automatically to scrub the disks on the server Sunday of every month. The important files for this setup are: The file in cron.d sets the schedule and calls the scrub script which actually performs the…

  • Understanding the Default Filesystem on Proxmox

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    When you install Proxmox it’s quite common to choose just a single local disk and let the installer use LVM to partition it. This turns the drive into a physical volume (PV) onto which the installer will create a single volume group (VG) called pve. Inside that volume group the installer will create three logical…

  • Setting up SMART Monitoring in Proxmox

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    The aim of this article is to configure SMART monitoring in Proxmox and to send emails in the case anything untoward is found. You should already have the email system set up as per this earlier article. This article assumes that you have disks attached directly to the system rather than via a RAID controller.…

  • Setting up Email Notifications in Proxmox Using Gmail

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    Getting email notifications from Proxmox is important as you absolutely want to know what that disk fails at 3AM or if the backup decides it’s had enough and gives up. The first thing you need to check is that you have set a valid email addresses for where the email will come from. By default…

  • Building a Home Server with Proxmox – ZFS

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    The installation of Proxmox is well covered in official guide so I won’t cover that here. There really aren’t many choices to be made during install anyway. I installed the OS on a 1TB M.2 drive and I plan on storing most of my VM’s there as well. Obviously, this will be backed up as…

  • Understanding how to use Discover on KDE Neon

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    I’m not sure I like the Discover application every much but I’m sticking with it for now because I’m concerned it’s a me problem. The problem I faced was I wanted to install KeePassXC but I couldn’t see how to get a version that was up to date. The version being offered was 2.6.6 which…

  • Setting up KDE Neon for the First Time

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    I have decided to try and switch to Linux for my daily drive and, for better or worse, I’ve chosen KDE Neon as my distro. This is not a distribution I’ve tried before but so far I’m liking it. The basic install is quite minimal but that’s fine by me, I want to choose what…

  • Installing nVidia Drivers on KDE Neon

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    I’ve decided to try and make a full time switch to Linux after 20+ years of debating whether to try and I’ve picked KDE Neon as my distro of choice. I picked Neon because it fulfilled my requirements of being based on Debian or Ubuntu, having KDE as a first class option, having Flatpak, and…

  • Notes on Configuring a Home Server

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    I’ve run a home server of one kind or another for as long as I can remember, at least 25 years at this point. My old server was starting to show it’s age so I decided that it was time to build a new machine and learn a new technology or two along the way.…

  • Fixing the Proxmox VE “zpool create failed: exit code 1” problem

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    Right at the outset I want to say I’m quite new to ZFS at the time I write this so do your own homework. Anyway, I was trying to create a RAIDZ array on my test server which is currently running Proxmox 7.3. I set up the array using the interface provided and it threw…