Recent content by Oldsocks

Hello, We're using pbs 4.1 with pve 9.0 and 9.1. I have a very basic backup every night that is meant tot cover all VMs. The job runs, it processes all the VMs - I can seeit working and sending data - and it completes with no errors. But when I go to check the backups, quite a few simply...

thank you!

Hello! I'm preparing to upgrade a cluster to pve version 9. The readiness script has flagged LVM autoactivation as a potential issue. Will running the script to disable LVM autoactivation interrupt running VMs across the cluster? I have a few nodes still on pve 7, but I will be updating them to...

Hello! We're about to move mail from one 365 tenancy to another and we'd like to minimise downtime and NDRs. I was hoping to have mail delivered to pmg which would then hold it until we can release it, pointed at the new location. I'm sure I've done this before but I don't remember how - maybe...

Thank you so much for the confirmation!

Hello! I know this gets asked from time to time (I have searched!) but the answers are usually a bit inconclusive and nobody ever comes back to say "that worked!" so I'm going to ask to be sure, because if I get this wrong I am in a world of hurt. I have an existing standalone server, PVE04. I...

Thankyou for the advice. I'll add more space to the backup storage and more fibre to everything and hope for the best then!

Hello! I'm about to move a lot of VMs off of an old server and on to a band new cluster. Old server has a big lump of local storage and the VMs have mostly qcow2 disks. New cluster has almost no local storage, with LVM on iSCSI being home for disk images. Most VMs I can move easily enough by...

Not sure if you're still preparing for this, but I've found using a cloud-based backup provider (I won't mention the one I used because I don't want to be accused of shilling) that does bare metal restores will let you move without needing to boot to an image on the source side. If the site has...

That's the really weird part - I can connect from outside via telnet and can see it in the logs. Just not actual mail traffic. Very, very weird. Upon further inspection, it was a firewall issue - some geoip stuff blocking areas where the mailsevers lived. Thank you for the help!

Hello! I'm feeling very stupid right now and I don't expect that to change. I've set up a new PMG instance to catch inbound mail while we move an exchange server to a new location and then hopefully to act as a filter in future. To test it before relying on it, I've updated the MX record for an...

Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction; it's been a rough few days - I'll jump on this like I should have done at the very start.

Hello, did you ever find a solution to this problem?

Hello! I have a small cluster with my VMs living on LVM over iSCSI on a hp msa2050 SAN. I built it back in January and it was nice and quick - didn't even bother with multipath or any tuning because even with 10+ VMs running, it was fast enough. I left it running, doing nothing, until this...

Updae: one of the cluster members was somehow holding that file open, once I forced a reboot I was able to delete it. I now have new problems, naturally, but this is no longer one of them. Hello, I am sleep deprived so please bear with me. In additon to sudden mysterious performance trouble...