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Hi, From the config, the VM is currently showing lock: backup, which suggests a previous backup task may be stuck. That alone can prevent new backups from progressing. Also, since the disk is QCOW2 on NFS and you’re using snapshot mode, it can sometimes hang at 0% if there’s an issue with...

Hi Team, I have a question regarding the Proxmox version upgrade. Currently, our Proxmox is running version 8.4.0, and we plan to upgrade it to the last version of 8.4.x.However, because our security department does not allow us to grant Internet access to Proxmox nodes, we want to confirm with...

Hi, You may want to check how your storage is configured first. In Proxmox, backups are usually stored as regular files (in the <span>dump/</span> directory), so there’s no direct GUI option to move them between storages. One approach you can try: Use pvesm status to identify the source and...

Hi, The issue appears to be that your Windows Server 2025 VM is stuck in an Automatic Repair loop and unable to boot normally. Since the cloned VM is also showing the same behavior, this likely indicates OS-level corruption or a possible disk/storage-related issue rather than a Proxmox...

Hi, This is normal behavior. Even though the virtual machine is stopped and hasn’t changed, the system still needs to scan the whole disk during backup. However, it does not actually store or upload the full data again. Since nothing changed, the backup server recognizes that and reuses the...

Replacing a Failed Disk in Proxmox (BTRFS RAID1 – Simple Explanation) If one disk fails in a Proxmox BTRFS RAID1 setup, your server will still boot from the other disk. That’s normal and expected. Sometimes it boots in “read-only mode.” This is just a safety feature — your data is not lost...

Hi, This is expected behavior in Proxmox Backup Server. VMIDs must be unique within the same namespace, so moving a backup to the root namespace will fail if the same VMID already exists there. Currently, there is no way to rename or change the VMID of an existing backup. The available options...

Hi, We are preparing Windows Server VMs for Microsoft's Secure Boot certificate updates (Microsoft UEFI CA 2023). We are currently using Proxmox VE with Secure Boot enabled and EFI disks (OVMF). May I confirm: Does our current Proxmox version include the updated Microsoft UEFI CA 2023...

Hi, We are preparing Windows Server VMs for Microsoft's Secure Boot certificate updates (Microsoft UEFI CA 2023). We are currently using Proxmox VE with Secure Boot enabled and EFI disks (OVMF). May I confirm: Does our current Proxmox version include the updated Microsoft UEFI CA 2023...

Hi, This usually happens when the Proxmox GUI or services don’t refresh the VM list properly, even though the VMs are still running. You can try restarting Proxmox services instead of rebooting: systemctl restart pve-cluster pvedaemon pvestatd pveproxy Also check disk space and VM config...

After the update, Proxmox now handles container mount points more strictly. This mainly affects unprivileged containers. Mounted folders now show up as root:root inside the container, so services like MySQL can’t access their files. If a mount point is set to read-only, the container may fail...

This VM runs Blue Iris, which heavily uses the GPU all the time (video decoding, encoding, and AI processing). Other VMs using the same Intel GPU are fine because they don’t use the GPU as heavily or continuously. What appears to be happening is: The Intel GPU virtual function sometimes stops...

Hi, In Proxmox VE 8.4, the GUI gets the backup list from the Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). The “communication failure (0)” usually means a temporary connection or timeout issue to PBS. You can check logs here: On Proxmox VE /var/log/pveproxy/error.log /var/log/syslog journalctl -u pveproxy On...

Hi, This speed is normal for your setup. Backups are slow because: The backup system is running inside a virtual machine The disk is a USB hard drive The storage is going through another device (Raspberry Pi) Backup software does more work than a normal file copy, so even if copying a file...

Hi, Thank you for the detailed explanation and for sharing your field-tested procedure. Before we communicate this back to the customer, we just want to double-check with the Proxmox community: Is this manual cleanup approach (Safe Mode, removing VMware services/drivers, then installing...