Moving Proxmox server from one SSD to another. (lemmy.world)

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I have spent the last couple of weeks getting my small used PC into my Proxmox server and it's going great! ...Until I quickly ran into the 256GB SSD size limit of the included drive. So I have ordered a much larger (2tb) one so I can expand much more.

Ideally, I would like to make an exact clone of what I have now just on my bigger SSD to avoid having to rebuild my VMs

One issue is that the computer has room for one drive only. I was hoping to get an exact clone to a USB drive then clone to the new drive once replaced with the new one.

Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated, thank you.

EDIT: Took another look in the guts of my system managed to get another 2tb SSD in there.

Disconnected cd drive and got a power splitter and boom. Could probably get another one even with another splitter as it's got a 3rd sata port.

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[-] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

the computer has room for one drive only

The case might, but are you sure there isn't a second SATA port on the motherboard? In which case, and assuming you're using LVM, it would be easy to plug the 2 drives simultaneously while the case is open, create the appropriate partitions/LVM pvcreate/vgextend on the new drive, pvmove everything to the new drive, vgreduce/pvremove to remove the old drive, done.

[-] AverageGoob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't worked with LVMs in awhile now but I will make note of this if I can manage to get both drives going at the same time.

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