Manual guide in setting up a windows vm on proxmox with an ceph filesystem client

[manual] backblaze windows vm setup.md

[secret] backblaze windows vm setup

This is a WIP guide on how to setup a proxmox virtual machine with windows 10 or 11 to be used as backblaze backup client.

Create Windows 10/11 Proxmox VM Guide

• kayomo

Notes

• Use the english installer since the german does have issues with the virtuo drivers
• Us QEMU version 6.0 if you have troubles rebooting the VM

Install clients and software

• vscode
• ceph
• dokany
• backblaze

C:/Program Files/Ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring

[client.admin]
        key = [redacted]
        caps mds = "allow *"
        caps mgr = "allow *"
        caps mon = "allow *"
        caps osd = "allow *"

C:/Program Files/Ceph/ceph.conf

[global]
    log to stderr = true

    run dir = C:/ProgrammData/ceph/out
    crash dir = C:/ProgrammData/ceph/out

    admin socket = C:/ProgrammData/ceph/out/$name.$pid.asok

	mon_host = 192.168.2.134

[client]
	keyring = C:/ProgrammData/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring

Mount CephFS

ceph-dokan -l x

Backblaze Ignore File Types

wab~,vmc,vhd,vhdx,vdi,vo1,vo2,vsv,vud,sys,cab,msi,dll,dl_,wim,ost,o,qtch,log,ithmb,vmdk,vmem,vmsd,vmsn,vmss,vmx,vmxf,menudata,appicon,appinfo,pva,pvs,pvi,pvm,fdd,hds,drk,mem,nvram,hdd