Hello everyone,
I’m running a Proxmox VE setup with a connected Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). Everything works as expected with my scheduled nightly backup job - it runs at 2:00 AM and creates a backup each night.
However, if I manually trigger the same backup job during the day, it overwrites the backup from the night before instead of creating a new one. I would expect Proxmox to create a separate backup each time the job is run, regardless of whether it’s started automatically or manually.
Is this behavior expected?
If not, is there a known way to prevent the manual job from overwriting the nightly backup?
Attached are screenshots of my configuration.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I’m running a Proxmox VE setup with a connected Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). Everything works as expected with my scheduled nightly backup job - it runs at 2:00 AM and creates a backup each night.
However, if I manually trigger the same backup job during the day, it overwrites the backup from the night before instead of creating a new one. I would expect Proxmox to create a separate backup each time the job is run, regardless of whether it’s started automatically or manually.
- Retention is set to: keep-daily=32
- Deduplication factor is working well
- Only VMs are backed up
- Garbage collection is inactive
- Manual and automatic backups use the same job
Is this behavior expected?
If not, is there a known way to prevent the manual job from overwriting the nightly backup?
Attached are screenshots of my configuration.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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