Recently it became apparent that I should migrate my Proxmox setup to a different host. I was running everything on a Dell PowerEdge 710r which, while a great piece of hardware, I was not using to it's fullest extent, and it was more noise and energy than it was worth.

Introduction I recently got a new server (PowerEdge R710) and so I need to transfer the VM's that I have on my existing server over to the new one. There are a couple ways to do this but I chose to go with the backup to an external hard drive

Introduction On my Proxmox box there is a daily apt-get update task run. However it has been erring out every time it has run since I installed Proxmox. So hopefully this will fix it. Work Part There are various package repositories for Proxmox and those are listed in File /etc/