Recent content by Einar Stenberg

my docker image for proxmoxbackup client can backup SMB shares as schedueled tasks, try it out if you need to do that. https://github.com/OvrAp3x/ProxmoxBackupClientDocker

I suggest this, Create a VM with a fileshare on it that you can run your timemachine backups to, then backup that vm with PBS

There is also the "Deduplication Factor" on the summary page for each datastore that gives you a hint as to how much space is saved by dedup. Note: You have to run a garbage collection on the store for this to update.

What you could do is remove the checkbox on the data-disk attached to your PBS vm called "Backup", this will exclude this disk from the backup. But you could still include the OS disk for instance to keep a copy of the config? (though do not do it this way in production :p , you could end being...

Greatly depends on what kind of storage medium is backing the vdisk i would say. If your other disks are hdd, and the storage you want to use for the vdisk is ssd, then you should see some perfomance improvment (depending on your workload also) Though in my experience, adding caches in truenas...

Snapshots and backups are two very diffrent things.. Assuming you are indeed talking about backups as you mentioned PBS in second post; I have seen similar behaviour when the PBS server have to little resources, like the cpu being pinned at 100% by some task, or if the storage you are using has...

Is this approach something that has been testet and confirmed in the time since this post was made?

I have encountered similar issues on other hardware in the past, best way is to install Debian directly, and then add the PBS repo and install that on top. :-) https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html

I have a the same sort of issue, I have submitted the following feature request that would solve this https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4347 Basically mount the previous backup, then write the new backup on top with another tool such as rsync and then finally tell the server to save...

Right now my docker image does not handle this, so open files will simply be skipped with a warning in the logs. What you could do is use the "VSS for SMB shares" feature https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/jj612865(v=ws.11)...

Using SMB share as the source is totally fine, we have been doing that for a long time here. To simplify things a bit I have created a docker image that can backup SMB shares or a few other sources of data and uses proxmox-backup-client to send it to the backup server...

Thanks for the hint :) I was changed the mount point of /tmp to use tmpfs inside my docker container and now i t works :-)

During backups of files I am getting this error, Starting backup: host/server1/2022-05-16T07:52:03Z Client name: server01 Starting backup protocol: Mon May 16 09:52:03 2022 Using encryption key from '/backup/root/PBS.enc'.. Encryption key fingerprint: ZZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Downloading previous...

Is there a way to fuse mount a new empty backup? My scenario is this, i want to backup something that is not stored on the local machine but rather pulled via script/command whitout having to download it first to local disk and then back it up. Ie. Im using gcloud sdk to copy files from a...

In regards to increasing performance, Currently i'm using a raidz1 for the storage wich is kind of horrible for writes. What kind of performance impact would adding an NVMe cache have for running PBS?