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How does the new Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) scale? I have one specific use case in mind: a CentOS 7 LXC container mail server running Postfix/Dovecot . There is about 300 GB of data at about 3.5 million mostly small files. The volume is continually increasing. I am aware of Dovecot...

Yes. Ah, the missing link. So the recent lxc-pve package update is responsible for the new behavior. Thank you!

With recent updates we are receiving rkhunter reports about /dev/.lxc-boot-id being a hidden file. Easily fixed in rkhunter but which PVE/LXC package is responsible for creating this file? Thanks!

Thank you for replying. Are you saying this specific container is thick provisioned? That would explain the 99.90%? I do not see this usage with other containers. Does that means those containers are thin provisioned? How do I tell if a container is thick or thin? Looks like I'm missing the...

This probably has been asked several times but likely I am using incorrect search terms. I'm trying to understand container disk usage differences. I have a container that shows the following with df: /dev/mapper/pve-vm--301--disk--1 ext4 591G 257G 304G 46% From inside the container the...

ZFS is not used. Do containers need to be shut down before trimming?

Using LVM. Don't use ZFS. lvs: LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert vm-223-disk-1 pve Vwi-aotz-- 60.00g data 20.69 223.conf: #Windows XP agent: 1 balloon: 0 bootdisk: ide0 cores: 2 cpu: kvm32 ide0...

What is the exact syntax to shrink an XP virtual disk? I'm looking at shrinking XP KVM disks of unused disk space. There is a wiki topic, but the topic lacks specific information. The example shows: cp image.qcow2 image.qcow2_backup There are no files on the host with a qcow2 file extension...

Thank you for replying. As far as I can tell from browsing the web and this thread, running fstrim inside a container is not recommended. Instead virtual disk space should be reclaimed from the host side. Something like this in a daily or weekly cron job: for ct in $(pct list | awk '/^[0-9]/...

Is there a preferred or recommended way to run fstrim on both LXC and KVM guests? Should fstrim be run from the host or inside guests? How often? Daily? Just before a vzdump? Do guests need to be shutdown when shrinking virtual disks? Browsing the forum and admin guide left me uncertain. What...

Without parsing through logs, is there a straightforward way using Proxmox command line tools to know when a guest system was stopped? Background: When an LXC or KVM guest is stopped, the vzdump cron jobs continue to create backups. While hardly the end of the world, would be nice to determine...

OK. Thank you.

Thank you for replying. The explanation is a tad over my head as I never wandered into the API. The word "ticket" is a bit confusing as most people, including myself, associate that word with a bugzilla or subscription support request ticket. This "ticket" is more like an SSH or HTTPS...

After upgrading Proxmox 5 to 6, I notice /etc/pve/authkey.pub is modified and rotated to authkey.pub.old, and subsequently, in /etc/pve/priv/ the authkey.key, authorized_keys, and known_hosts files all are changed every 24 hours. Looks this lifetime limit is managed in...