proxmox backup server

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    Tape backup is very slow

    I just tried the tape backup of the Proxmox Backup server, but the transfer speed is very slow. (Max 60 MB/s) I also use the same tape with Bareos and there I found out that setting the tape block size to 1 MB made a sigificant performance improvment. (From under 100 MB/s to over 300 MB/s) Is...
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    Edit backup job via CLI

    Hi guys! I wonder how to edit existing pbs job via cli? I can create tasks with pvesh but how abiut editing them? For example I need to transfer couple of hundreds backup jobs from one datastore to another. How do I do that?
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    de-duplication with encryption inside vm

    Hello, I was hoping to get some clarity about backups and encryption from inside a vm. If I encrypt a debian vm with luks on lvm, will this interfere with proxmox backup server de-duplication, pruning, etc? To clarify, the encryption in not happening in proxmox, but within the vm. Any other...
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    Proxmox Backup Server lokal, Proxmox beim Hoster

    Hallo zusammen, bin nicht sicher ob ich hier was übersehe: ich habe gerade einen Proxmox Server beim Hoster aufgesetzt. Den würde ich gerne mittels Proxmox Backup Server sichern, der bei mir im LAN steht und sich bisher ausschliesslich um die lokalen Server kümmert. Übersehe ich einen Weg, den...
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    Tape Job : Cancel job after running more than x hour

    Hi, I have configured a PBS with HP LTO6 with 1 mediapool/tape per job per day Monday for Monday etc etc. But I'm not the one who spins the tapes ( not in office ) proxmox-backup-server 3.1.2-1 running version: 3.0.3 Works fine when people spins tapes , but when holiday comes and tapes are...
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    [SOLVED] Backup server does not recognize M.2 drive during install

    I have been running proxmox server on the same hardware, I have a new server setup and decided to turn the old hardware into a backup server, however the backup server install doesn't recognize or see the drive to install, yet if I try to install the proxmox vm server it works just fine?? To...
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    PBS Datastore is not available

    Hey everyone, i have a running PBS with an external USB hard drive mounted under /media/usb-pbs where all backups are stored. After the system was switched off for two weeks and I changed the static IP address of the PBS, the corresponding data storage is shown as "not available" in the user...
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    bug: (debug?) Logs from a larger backup from PB client cause the task window and browser tab to become unresponsive

    I suspect this is caused partially by how task detail window in webgui is implemented, and because Proxmox backup client-initated backup is very verbose at server-side. here is screen recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq3LS00I8p8 Reproducer: 1. run proxmox backup of large enough...
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    Garbage collection skipped first phase

    Hello friends! We have a proxmox backup server 2.4-1 We recently moved from one datastore to another with ZFS We moved the chunks folder and changed the configuration settings, connected the datastore and it seemed that everything was ok, the tasks were saved, the namespaces were available...
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    Restore just 1 disk from VM

    Is it possible to restore just 1 disk out of a VM? For example, I have a Windows Server 2016 VM which separates the data drive E:\ from the C:\ Operating System. Could I just restore the Operating system or just the Data drive from PBS? Sometimes there is an error after Windows Updates and the...
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    Proxmox Backup Server

    Hello, I am using Proxmox VE with Proxmox Backup Server My backup process is built on an internal 10 gigabit network, I also use ZFS for Proxmox Backup Server with 32GB memory allocation for ARC Storage capacity 47 TB of which 40TB is occupied RAM 64GB CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @...
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    Use old backups with changed VM-ID

    Hello! i had to edit some of my VMs and change their IDs because i accidently restored a wrong, old backup with an identical VM-ID. So i changed them to be unique which actually worked pretty well. But now i realized that with the changed IDs i cannot use my previously created backups on my PBS...
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    Proxmox Backup client Error: permission check failed.

    So, i configured a pbs and i also added proxmox backup client on a standalone machine and tring to take backup from the standalone machine to the pbs and i added this script to the client machine. I create a new user which is called CBackup i added an admin permission to the datastore/JU-BACKUP...
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    Delete backup in cli or automation delete.

    Hello everyone, I had delete VM in proxmox-ve but data VM still in proxmox backup server. (many VM) I want delete many file backup with cli or automation delete. Please suggest or solution for this. Thank you very much.
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    [SOLVED] Importing ZFS Pool not working

    After I replaced a Disk in failed state, the Pool didn't resilver the Pool like it should. After a restart, the Proxmox Backup Server can't import the pool by him self. I tried with "zpool import Proxmox-Backup01" and it comes the output: invalid exchange (attached) With "zpool import...
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    PROBLEM: Can´t backup VMs anymore

    Hey everyone, after I had a IP double use (accidentally) I get errors while a backupjob, The Log shows the following error: storing login ticket failed: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must be set INFO: Backup job finished with errors TASK ERROR: job errors The funny part is, that I only get the task error...
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    [SOLVED] PBS certificate validation fails even with updated fingerprint set

    Hi, yesterday I’ve updated the certificate on PBS with a new self-signed cert (uploaded a proxy.pem containing the cert and the root ca that signed it, I don’t have an intermediate CA on my lab setup) and my PBS backups on PVE started to fail. Then I remembered that the fingerprint changed and...
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    Migrate Proxmox VE Host Installation

    I currently have Proxmox installed on a zfs single disk, and want to move it to a zfs mirror. The tricky part is that the disk it is on now will be one of the disks in the mirror. How would I move the install to a temporary location, create the mirror with the two disks, and then move the...
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    Proxmox Migration via Proxmox Backup Server?

    I would like to migrate from Provider A to Provider B (I think this could be Hetzner, checking some possibilities/ alternatives but should start soon, maybe even today) Currently the following setup is used on Provider A - Dedicated Server 1: Proxmox - Dedicated Server 2: Proxmox Backup Server...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox Backup Remote Sync Error

    I have two onsite Proxmox Backup Servers at two locations. They both sync to an offsite remote (pull). Then there is a cloud proxmox backup server Pulls from the offsite remote and both onsite locations After everything was synced I had a couple backups that had errors saying unable to load blob...

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