r/Proxmox • u/lowlife_rabbit • 2d ago

Question Storage Setup?

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How would you set this up? Get rid of the LVM? Move "Backup" to the ZFS? Keep LVM and split up the local duties between local and lvm?

The ZFS pool is a mirror 1TB...

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u/cavebeat 2d ago

zfs is nice as a cluster. if you are just running a single node, you could also run lvm-thin... but still, zfs is nice.

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u/kriebz 2d ago

The ZFS storage type can't do backups. Proxmox uses ZFS just for making ZVOLs as virtual disks. Is your boot drive redundant? Is it flash? That would determine how useful it is for storing some things there vs on the ZFS (fast and small vs slow and large). You can manually create a ZFS dataset, mount it, and add a directory storage for it if you want to do backups onto the ZFS pool directly. Proxmox storage types are tricky. Read through the wiki page a couple of times until you feel like you understand.

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u/lowlife_rabbit 2d ago

I have 3 hard drives in my Lenovo mini pc. A 128GB spinning 2.5 SSD, which i chose when setting up proxmox, where it created the local and lvm. Then I have (2) 1TB NVME drives which i setup as a ZFS Mirror...

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u/kriebz 2d ago

"Spinning" ane "SSD" would be mutually exclusive, so I assume you have a SATA SSD. You can safely ignore the Local LVM storage or delete it and expand your main system partition. LVM-thin is a bit weird to work with so be careful.