Okay I saw this posted a lot and apparently it is pretty common but why do people virtualize your nas in for example a proxmox server/cluster. If that goes down it gets super hard to get your data back than if you do it bare Metal, doesn’t it? Are people only doing it so save on seperate devices or are my concerns unreasonable?
My NAS is a VM linked to a disk array that exports some folders over NFS. It’s very simple and it’s supposed to be. I have backups of the VM configuration using etckeeper and I have backups of the data. I’ve run this setup for around 6/7 years now and haven’t had a problem with it being virtualized. It’s been very flexible as I’ve been able to migrate the VM between physical host too.