Search results

Hi community, Do we have any API available within PVE or PBS to backup not a VM/LXC but a host/folder instead? I know it exist cli proxmox-backup-client who can perform this action but didn't found anything about API available. Do we have any? Thank you,

Hi, I am creating some flows in node-red to call Proxmox API to perform some backup actions. Although I created some of them successfully to create backups and check if task of each one finished well or not, when trying to check if a task from a "sync" job finished, it always returns error to...

I want to share this “how to” for anyone who mistakenly could removed partitions from 3x HDs in a ZFS RAIDZ1 configuration without need of recreating pool from scratch + recover backup. Credits to user2209743 from...

Hi super community, I am unable to remove a datastore which are no longer available physically. The problem comes when executing the command: proxmox-backup-manager datastore remove NameOfTheDatastore and throws If I use the GUI button "Remove Datastore", the Tasks end throwing above message...

Hi all, I have a special need to use a hard disk passthrough with a windows 11 installed. I am able to backup the passthrough disk but I am UNABLE to restore it to the same device. There is no way since physical disk does not appear to be selected in the storage menu. Is there any way to...

Hi, I have a Windows 11 VM but had this same behaviour before with Windows 10. The thing is, I use to add/remove usb devices from time to time and once you add or do some change to the USB device in VM set up, it is marked as a change that requires VM to stop and start. To get USB devices...

Hi community :) I have been using PVE and PBS for some time and 0 issues so far with the backup system so I am very happy. Currently I backup only LXC and VMs and any restoration I had to do just worked. Now, I would like to include backup of a shared folder where all my pictures are. The thing...

UPDATE: I was about to send this post thread when I found out how to solve it. I think is worthy if someone else have same problem. You must enable 2FA in your gmail account and generate a password app. Once generated, you have to replace your old password in postfix for this new one (16...

Hello, I was searching in the forum but haven't found anything related to this. I want to use itunes to backup an iphone but I am unable to do. Sometimes through an error while doing the backup, others the pop-up trust message keeps booting on the phone,... When I use another laptop with...

Hi community :) I am really impressed about PBS. Perform backups of VMs are amazingly fast and reliable so congratulations on such amazing product. Also to restore VMs just works! With that said, I would like to know if there is a way to backup only a specific folder using PBS. I have hard...

Hello community :) I want to create a PAM user with limited rights in my 1 node PVE host to only allow specific actions as I have on my user in GUI. I did the following: GUI part: Create new group, new role with selected rights (VM.audit, Sys.Audit, VM.PowerMgmt) and new Pam user in this...

Hi, I tried to update to the latest version of PBS (1.1) following this FAQ: But everything seems updated: apt-get update -- apt-get upgrade -- I tried the GUI too with same results. And also to make sure was not updated I rebooted PBS and still showing version Anyone knows what is...

Hello, I am getting crazy to put in place ZFS in my server. I am new on ZFS world so now playing a bit to understand how it works before migrate all my data. I have 3x4TB ZFS raidz1 and created using this command in PVE: zpool create zfspool -f -o ashift=12 raidz /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ZZZ...

Hi, As per description of PBS on the official page: https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-backup-server you can backup and restore physical hosts. This means also you can backup the Proxmox Virtual Environment too? I can not see anything specific on the pdf documentation but I am really interested...

Hello, I have some virtual machines in my node and I realized something weird happen when I try to run more than 3 at the same time. I guess this is because the 4th one just needs more RAM memory than available but weird part is randomly proxmox stop some of the running ones instead of...

Hello, I am new user of proxmox after several years with vsphere and I am really happy so far. Congratulations to the whole community who mantains and upgrades this great product. While I am still familiarizing with configurations, I followed this guide to add couple of disks to my linux...