Recent content by alex591

Yes... I did originally want to use that storage as a temporary measure while I was sorting other things out. Selecting it for this particular VM was not intended! Agreed, but I'm not sure much useful has been lost there. At the time of the failure, 'zpool status' was showing - as expected - a...

Hi, It's a PowerEdge R730, and the disks are connected via the H330 in HBA mode. Pool0 is just mounted at /zpool/pool0 with a volume under that for PBS and another (now deleted to avoid future mistakes!) for VMs. zpool status probably isn't that interesting now since I destroyed and recreated...

I’m currently running a single server, with 3 ZFS pools: - rpool, mirrored, containing the OS. - pool0, striped, containing (I thought*), only a PBS datastore. - pool1, mirrored, containing the VMs. A drive in pool0 failed a couple of days ago. I was away at the time, and the first I knew of it...

Well that was a strange one. 3 hours later, restore has resumed. Still no idea what the cause of the delay was - the previous (failed) attempt to restore that same VM started restoring chunks within a few minutes.

Hi, I've just successfully restored about 15 VMs from tape following an incident that I'll post about when I get the chance. However, when I went to restore the last VM, I discovered a corrupt tape. The restore failed, ending with: 2026-07-17T06:11:15+01:00: TASK ERROR: read failed - Medium...

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I went to have another look, and like magic... it now works! I did restart the server for a kernel update last night, so perhaps a restart fixed something, or a package update. I've started the first tape backup which so far seems to be running fine (although I did...

Hi, I previously had PBS installed on a Dell R710 alongside PVE 7.x - This was a couple of years ago, so I can't remember which version of PBS it was. The server was damaged, and has been unused since. I've now installed PVE 9.2.3 and PBS 4.2.1 on an R730, and moved the HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader...

All good points. It just seems odd to me that there doesn't seem to be a 'proper' way to remove a known failing drive under these circumstances - a 'force' option that would just zero-fill any unreadable blocks when copying, for example. Unfortunately as much as I want redundant storage, it's...

Thanks for the suggestion! The man page for zpool-remove does indeed say that I/O errors will cause the removal to stop, and there doesn't seem to be a way to force it. Given that the pool is not redundant, I have no idea what effect physically removing the drive would have, but I'm sure it...

Hi, I've recently encountered a failing drive in a ZFS pool. The pool is striped, with no redundancy. Currently, the only affected files appear to be ones that can be easily be replaced, and I'm hoping to keep it that way to avoid having to take the whole server offline to restore from backups...

I created a datastore called 'restore', many months ago, purely for the purpose of a trial restoration from tape. All went well, and after I'd finished testing, I deleted all backups from that datastore, and it shows as empty in the GUI. The output from the latest GC is...

Sorry, I messed up the syntax in my original post there! Reading that thread, it looks like the best solution at the moment is to just add a unique port as an argument in the QEMU config files. Which, to be fair, might be a more sensible way to go about things anyway...

Hi, I used to use, for example, vnc change 0.0.0.0:100 change vnc 0.0.0.0:100 in the monitor console to change VNC port. Since upgrading to 7.0, I get Expected ‘password’ after ‘vnc’. I tried the longer form described in https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VNC_Client_Access, but couldn’t get that to...

That sorted it, thanks! I hadn't realised there was an option in the GUI.

I was migrating several VMs at once yesterday, and found that I was getting 'Invalid PVE ticket' every minute or so in the web interface. Research suggests that it was probably due to the network being saturated and causing latency issues with Corosync. Everything certainly seems fine now that...