Backup Proxmox Config Every Night I mounted a drive on /mnt/backups where Promox backup all my VMs and LXCs to on a weekly basis, and then once per week these backups are copied off site using rclone. Read more about my rclone setup here: https://techstuff.leighonline.net/2025/01/03/proxmox-rclone-offsite-backups/ But Promox doesn’t have a Read more
How to Move Proxmox VM and LXC Disks to a new Drive I recently decided to install a new 1TB SSD in my Proxmox server. I had 2 x 256GB SSD in there but it was gettnig too small, plus I needed the 2 small SSDs for another project and Read more
Proxmox Offsite Backups I was looking for a cheap but durable solution where I can store Proxmox offsite backusps so that I can follow the 321 principles of backups, which means: (The 2 differnet media one is is a bit tricky nowadays, especially for small businesses or home users, so Read more
Proxmox No Subscription Updates If you’re using Proxmox for your homelab, you probably don’t want an Enterprise plan, so you have to update your Proxmox nodes to use the No subscription updates. Take note the “No subscription” updates are not production ready and you should not use it in a Read more
Proxmox LXC Templates and Containers In order to create a Proxmox LXC Container, we first need to download the templates. If you want to check out a full list of images go to https://linuxcontainers.org/ Take note that Proxmox doesn’t show all of these images. These containers are also very small. Read more
Promox – Convert a template back to a Virtual Machine If you converted a Virtual Machine to a template in Proxmox, but then you realize you should not have done it, you can convert it back to a VM. The best option is to always rather create a full clone Read more