Recent content by ilium007

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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    Just to close this one off from my POV. I am running Restic backups via the resticprofile wrapper tool deployed locally on the PBS instance. I use the schedule feature built in to resticprofile that handles the systemd service/timer for daily backups/forgets/prunes. I run a...
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    Or there are more important things to do before this and there are other perfectly working methods of cloud backup of the PBS datastore.
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    Tonight I restored the 50GB PBS datastore via Restic from Borgbase (cloud), I was able successfully run a PBS verification on a VM and then restore in PVE after adding the restored datastore. VM started up straight away with zero issues. sudo resticprofile restore latest --target...
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    Again, the datastore is just files. Restic chunks, checksums, dedupes, encrypts, copies. I don’t know what you’re so afraid of. What can possibly happen to a bunch of files that are checksummed and verified as exact duplicates? I’ve ready the forum posts. I’m not using rclone (with crypt...
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    Ok champ. The chunk store is just folders of fixed size files. Files on disk that are being 1:1 backed up after shutting down the PBS service. How is backing up the PBS datastore files a 'hack'? What's the alternative? Building a VPS with terabytes or storage and running another PBS server? How...
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    I'll continue to use Restic (with the awesome resticprofile wrapper) to back up the local PBS repo to Borgbase. I am now running a script before a backup (using the resticprofile "run-before" run hook https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/configuration/run_hooks/index.html) to...
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    So changing backup strategy to only using PVE backups (no PBS) and using Restic to upload full dump files and use its dedup results in far greater backup sizes which will double cost for cloud stored backups (I'm using Borgbase as a hosted backup repository). b0c5356c 2025-05-23 02:00:08...
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    No I didn't - I was at work trying to contribute while I had 5mins.
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    Restic does not seem to to make much difference to the already de-duped PBS data, maybe 1GB smaller in Restic for the same data: root@pve01:~# du -s /mnt/backup0/ 56074654 /mnt/backup0/ ➜ restic stats a3899631 repository caecd736 opened (version 2, compression level auto) [0:00] 100.00%...
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    Advice on using Restic with VM backups

    What issues have people had with an rclone restore? My test restores have worked fine. Been using Restic and PVE/PBS for years now.
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    PBS n100

    What form factor? Are they internal drives?
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    PBS n100

    What are you using for storage on the N100?
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    [SOLVED] Notification system From (Author) address not showing in backup emails

    Oh - I forgot this: root@pve01:~# pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 8.2.0 (running kernel: 6.8.4-2-pve) pve-manager: 8.2.2 (running version: 8.2.2/9355359cd7afbae4) proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.1.0 proxmox-kernel-6.8: 6.8.4-2 proxmox-kernel-6.8.4-2-pve-signed: 6.8.4-2 ceph-fuse: 17.2.7-pve3 corosync...
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    [SOLVED] Notification system From (Author) address not showing in backup emails

    It works if I revert to "Default (Auto)" remove the email address and then change back to "Notification system" Should probably be considered a UI bug. Changing to "Notification system" should remove previous config in /etc/pve/jobs.cfg
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    [SOLVED] Notification system From (Author) address not showing in backup emails

    So it turns out that if you previously had email options set in the UI and change "Notification mode" from "Default (Auto)" to "Notification system" the old email address and "mailnotification always" is left in the /etc/pve/jobs.cfg config file.