Building a Storage Server

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12 (bookworm)

We will be creating our storage server as an LXC under Proxmox with dedicated physical drives on the physical server.

(NOTE: any file/folder names in bold & italic here are examples of what I'm doing on a local system & may be different depending on YOUR needs...)

Building the LXC under Proxmox

Configuring the LXC

Configure this as a Privileged container.

Under Options / Features, turn on Nesting, NFS & SMB/CIFS.

It will simply your life if you can set up local users matching each network user that will be accessing this server. On my network, there are only 3 users that match this criteria. But, you may want to look into kerberos or some such.

Setting up dedicated drives

See: Adding a new drive from the command line

Personally, I like to handle my drives by label to make them easier to find & move around if needed.

WIP: Mounting dedicated drives to an LXC

Prepping the shares "to be"

• Create the starting points
  • sudo mkdir /Backups
  • sudo mkdir /Media
  • sudo mkdir /Documents
• Create the folders to be shared
  • sudo mount -o bind /mnt/Storage-3/Cecil-Backup/ /Backups/Cecil
  • sudo mount -o bind /mnt/Storage-3/Cleanup-Space/Photos /Media/Photos
  • etc, etc, etc...

NFS

See: Setting up NFS for file sharing

SMB

See: Installing Samba from the command line

FTP

See: FTP Serving