Recent content by Faris Raouf

I think you will not succeed in getting anything useful to happen. What I suggest is to add a new network card. They can be obtained for almost nothing from ebay etc. If you go for known-brand products (and even if you don't) then with any luck Debian/Proxmox will recognise the device and it...

Yup. The Beta was discussed in the PBS section of the forum (sticky, first topic in the list). The release service itself is here: https://www.tuxis.nl/en/proxmox-backup-server/ They offer 150Gb free so you can test it out. I have been doing so, and it has worked perfectly and painlessly...

Thanks @pftech. I'm looking at PBS at the moment, but using Tuxis as a remote PBS service, as opposed to running my own. The cost of even a single dedicated PBS server with enough storage is far greater than the cost of b2 for me currently (we have only 10TB of data stored). I imagine that even...

Old thread, but I thought I'd chime in, although I only have a small amount of info to offer here. I had tried to use b2's Lifecycle policy myself to delete old files, and failed. In the end I wrote my own script using the b2 cli tool to do so. So the info @thb provided about how to...

This seems like a show-stopper to me, not an annoyance. A freeze or more than a few seconds is rarely tolerable, and an effective total freeze until hard reboot is a terrifying thing to face. Network errors are a fact of life. In addition, if you use a remote third party PBS service (e.g...

@Uplink what about using the Lifecycle controller downloading individual updates direct from Dell's repos? Is that something that doesn't work like that anymore? I know on my really, really old dells I had to set up a local repo for the LCC to gets the updates from, but I thought the newer ones...

I'm curious why you chose to lvextend as opposed to lvreduce? I'd have thought extending the LVM when there's no physical space to really do so would cause problems, especially as you then resize the filesystem? I realise that LVM is "logical". And I also know that the data LVM is LVM-thin...

I don't like the idea of the guest agent causing problems -- or of some third party change or package causing problems with the guest agent, which then causes problems with backups. Its a shame nobody has managed to narrow this down. I find it very worrying.

It is mainly the cost, really. A local physical server to run PBS, plus enough local storage, is very expensive. I suppose I could spin up a Proxmox Backup Server VM at one of the cloud providers that permit custom ISOs installation, which would be cheaper. But then the associated storage would...

Oh no :-( I thought that I could exclude paths in vzdump, but that's for Containers only, isn't it? I hadn't realised that. Unfortunately that means my plan is probably doomed. While I can easily move the user data to a separate disk, the original one would still have 600GB allocated. And while...

That's a great idea. Also, instead of reinstalling Proxmox directly, which wipes your existing data (I wish there was a simple-to-use "reinstall" or "repair" option that did not do so), you can instead install Debian. This will not touch your data partition and you'll then have a bootable...

Just my additional input on this. I am also terrified of problems during upgrades. So far, I have experienced none at all, and that's even including upgrading from 5.x to 6.x. Despite this, I'm still nervous about doing upgrades. I think it is a mental problem of some kind :) I have two...

Does anybody do local vzbackup VM backups, excluding directories containing lots of user data, and then separately backup that user data to cloud storage? The above is what I'm thinking of doing, and it would be nice to know someone else is going it, and if there are obvious pitfalls I've...

Thanks @ph0x . The problem with Proxmox is that I don't know what it might use something for. Clearly it needed libfdt1 python-pyasn1 at some point, or else they were installed by default by the 5.x installer for some reason. Certainly I didn't install them myself - I keep the system 100% clean...

This is a bit of a dumb question, but better safe than sorry, I think. Some time ago I upgraded a Proxmox 5.x system to 6.x (and obviously part of that was going from Stretch to Buster) following the Proxmox upgrade instructions exactly. All is well and I'm having no problems. But I note the...