I was in your position recently and decided to install PVE from scratch and restore VMs from backup.

I had a fairly complex PVE config so it took some additional work to get everything up and running. But it was absolutely worth it.

Same. It works great.

I don’t want to be too specific for opsec reasons. But windows 10 is the OS. OFX aka OpenFX.

Most important term to research regarding arr apps is “hardlinking”. Make sure you have your apps configur ed with hardlinks. Everything else is pretty easy and self explanatory.

I replaced the drives, installed the newest version of PVE, then restored all of my VMs from local USB backup. I had to reconfigure a number of things such as HDD pass through and other network settings, but in the end the migration was a success.

I always wonder what legal risks hosting something like this comes with. If you host a public server and uploads are client side encrypted, seems like it would be a magnet for illegal file transfer and CSAM, no?