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We run all our VMs with the QUEMU agent option "freeze-fs-on-backup=0" set. It's not ideal, but it's the lesser of 2 evils. Restoring a client backup (which is an incredibly rare event anyway) results in the same outcome as if the VM lost power and restarted at that point in time. Sure, it's...

I can't see why that'd impact on the pool size. You still have the raw space in the OSDs, even if they share the same physical device. You'll burn more RAM per node by doing this as each OSD uses 4GB of RAM by default. We didn't end up doing this. We just run 1 OSD per device and it's been...

If the "data" is an rbd image then you can just export them from the ceph pool using "rbd export"

Does the ifupdown2 shipping with PVE 8 support renaming interfaces ? This bit us a while back when we tested PBS, which replaced ifupdown with ifupdown2. We rename the interfaces to something meaningful to a sysadmin, which was ignored buy ifupdown2, so we lost all network connectivity.

After some trial and error I can achieve this using proxmox-backup-client restore vm/999/2023-07-02T00:36:40Z drive-scsi0.img - | rbd import - vm-111-disk-0 It's not pretty so I hope there's some integration of ceph and pbs. Using the above I restored a backup of a disk image from a VM...

Hi Is there a way to specify the "target" for a "proxmox-backup-client restore" that will write directly to a ceph cluster to create a new RBD image? I've hunted through the doco but can't find anything other than restoring to a file on a local filesystem. Thanks David ...

Ok, great. Thanks for the clarification. I'll have a look at reconfiguring this to use 2 namespaces instead. Thanks David ...

Hi We're evaluating PBS and for our-use case I created 2 datastores on the same underlying filesystem. The reason for the 2 datastores is that some of the backups are to be sync'ed offsite, but not all of them. So, 1 datastore for replicated backups and the other datastore for local-only...

I'm not sure why you aren't understanding this. You can manually do whatever you want. Just don't use another orchestration tool like cephadm to install other features or add-ons as it may overwrite the configuration files generated by pveceph.

No, you are missing the point. Using cephadm to install any ceph add-ons "has the ability to break the existing ceph-environment". You cannot use 2 different orchestration tools for the same ceph cluster.

Oh, that's a shame. We've been waiting on that feature so we can look at moving to PBS from our own backup solution. We'll have a look at this on our lab cluster and wait for the UI to catch up with the vzdump change.

Hi all, The release notes say that the option to disable the guest agent fsfreeze during a backup was included in 7.4 but I can't find it. Is that exposed in the UI? It doesn't show up on the VM Options page.

The option to not do a fs freeze has also been added to PVE (thank you Christoph Heiss). The patch has been "applied" but I don't know anything about release management at Proxmox so I don't know when we'll see it in the repo. https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2023-February/055653.html

Hi Can we assume that everything is still working fine for you on 7.3.3? Can anyone else here confirm that this problem is resolved when running 7.3.3?

No, I didn't resolve this with the dashboard. We ended up pulling metrics out of the ceph command line tools and ingesting them into our monitoring system so we can have reasonable visibility and alerting. The "bad idea" isn't about enabling the dashboard, it's about using cephadm to enable...