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Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah I was considering passing usb though, or even nofail mounting usb instead of UUID.

They’re SSD connection but my host is a tiny pc with minimal internals. I just had the drives lying around so decided to try a USB to Sata cable which worked until it didn’t. That’s why usb.

I did not realise that Proxmox would fail if the devices did, and I’m a little annoyed I didn’t notice it on Sunday when it died for the first time, because I started fresh and ended up losing YEARS worth of Home Assistant automations.

Live and learn.

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Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hope you are doing 3-2-1 backups now

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- Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨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
  
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LinusSexTips@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you’ve got a m.2 slot in the mini PC you could add a cheap 5 sata port m.2 and connect them that way. If you don’t want to solder power you could really make it a butcher job and hack up the power from the sata to usb connectors.

Sucks to hear about your loss, I’ve recently lost my proxmox setup and migrated everything to Nixos. My install threw a wobbly, terminal was cooked, could only ssh into some containers so I wiped the install and migrated.

In my proxmox setup I found it easier to mount the drives as lvm to the host proxmox machine and pass them through to lxc via bind-mounts rather than adding another layer of shares / overheads.

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