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How to Replace a Failed Boot Drive in a ZFS Mirror on Proxmox

The Problem I recently noticed one of my proxmox nodes that would usually take about 30 seconds to reboot would take about 15 minutes to reboot. After a bit of investigating, it turns out that one...

How to create a raid 01 pool using ZFS

The Problem I recently got a pair of Sun F40’s to use as boot drives for proxmox on my Dell r720. Previously, I booted proxmox off of a pair of internal SD cards. I passed all of the drives throug...

How to resize the partitions of a drive that is already part of a ZFS pool

The Problem I recently got a pair of Sun F40’s to use as boot drives for proxmox on my Dell r720. Previously, I booted proxmox off of a pair of internal SD cards. I passed all of the drives throug...

How to add a new drive to an existing ZFS mirror

The Problem I recently got a pair of Sun F40’s to use as boot drives for proxmox on my Dell r720. Previously, I booted proxmox off of a pair of internal SD cards. I passed all of the drives throug...

Homelab Hardware Episode 1 - How to get started with a homelab

Introduction Welcome to my homelab hardware series! In this series, I will document the hardware for my homelab, as well as the decisions I made and the lessons that I have learned. The first few ...

How to fix "Cannot open: Permission denied" when trying to backup an unprivileged LXC container over NFS in Proxmox

The Problem When trying to take a full stop backup of my LXC containers in Proxmox, I get the following error output: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 107 --mode stop --compress zstd --remov...

How to migrate a docker container to a different host, the easy way

tl;dr check out docker migrate The Problem As my homelab continues to grow, I continue to learn and find out new things about the software that I use. Recently, I discovered LXC containers in pro...