Recent content by stevehughes

I've created a Bugzilla entry for this. Linking it here in case anyone is interested.

Thanks. Done.

Yes Fabian. Same PBS datastore, but separate namespaces. I did this to avoid having the long-term retention wiped out by the shorter retention settings of the default job. Keeping multiple bitmaps sounds ideal. I suppose a workaround would be exclude from the default job any VMs that are...

No Chris, both backup jobs use snapshot mode. In case it’s relevant I’ll mention that the VM storage is iSCSI.

HI, I'm trying to work out the best way to achieve something like the following: A backup job that performs a nightly backup of every VM on the cluster with no exclusions. This is a failsafe job to ensure that we don't forget to backup a new VM, and for many VMs a simple nightly backup is...

Reading around a bit further I found this to be a highly discussed topic, with a recent and informative contribution from fabian here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/why-restore-is-so-slow-from-pbs-and-what-is-slow-fast.120112/post-686822 This suggests the limitation is in the mechanism...

Hi everyone, Thanks for your contributions. My speed measurements for backup were for an initial full backup to a newly created array, so the entire VM was being transferred. Similarly, my test restores closely followed the initial full backup with only a few incrementals in between, so I...

Hi, I have read the comments that PBS is not designed with much consideration for HDDs, but .... My PBS server is running 22x EXOS SATA HDDs in ZFS RAID10, with a special NVMe vdev for metadata. My VM storage is NVMe iSCSI conencted at 100G, and the connection to PBS is 10G. I can run a...

Agreed. I'm using iSCSI+LVM, and PBS backup works fine.

Thanks waltar. I expect that should be a solution - thank you. Still - it's a bit of unwanted fluffing around. It would be very helpful if the ability to edit network settings could be added to the live restore process. Is there any process for requesting enhancements? Regards, Steve

We need to periodically test our backups and live restore functionality without disrupting the running VMs. We can test a static restore by choosing an unused VMID but without the ability to choose a different VLAN the live restore will conflict with the running VMs. Does anyone have a...

Here’s a related question - what if I want to trial a live restore of a system? I can now see how to avoid overwriting the source VM. But to avoid a conflict with the source VM I’d need to bring up the restore on a different VLAN. I can’t change this in the vm hardware because the live restore...

Got it :-) Thanks heaps for that.

Thanks for the reply dietmar. Can you provide some more detail please? I can do it using qmrestore, but I can't see how to do it from the GUI.

I'm sure this must have been asked already, but I can't find it. Simple question - How can I restore an entire VM, or spin up a quick recovery version of a VM, without overwriting the original VM, for example as part of a DR test? Thanks, Steve