2 posts tagged with "Proxmox"

What started as a normal day in my homelab turned into hours of debugging, unexpected freezes, and a long chain of NCQ timeout errors coming from my Seagate Exos 12TB drive. I swapped cables, changed power supplies, rebooted the system dozens of times — nothing seemed to fix it. Eventually, I learned the hard way how sensitive enterprise HDDs can be to power stability and controller behavior.

Automating Proxmox Config Backup with Systemd and Synology Active Backup​

After reading this insightful thread on the Proxmox forum: Backup Cluster Config (pmxcfs /etc/pve), I was inspired to create an automated backup solution for my Proxmox configuration.

I decided to implement a systemd script that automates the backup of the Proxmox sqlite database that contains the cluster configuration.
Here is the script I came up with: