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    Migrating physcial Windows 2003 servers using selfimage, fail to boot

    I am sorry, but i am having the same problem here. I have chosen to mirror entire harddisk, but when booting i get booting from harddisk... Fehler beim Laden des Betriebssystems I love this selfimage approach, and would like to get my copy running... Any idea? Thanks Sascha
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    Monitoring Nagios check_msa_hardware.pl

    Allright... Didn't know that. Do i have to remove the cpan modules before i start installing the debian packages? And if so, how would i preferably do that? Thank you Sascha
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    Monitoring Nagios check_msa_hardware.pl

    Got it working! This is what i did: Thanks again Sascha
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    Monitoring Nagios check_msa_hardware.pl

    Noone can give me a hint? The problem seems to be, that there is no prebuilt packages for the needed perl-plugins in lenny. But maybe someone can point me to some plan b... Thank you very much Sascha
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    Monitoring Nagios check_msa_hardware.pl

    Hi! Very odd problem: I would love to use following script for nagios to monitor my msa2312i: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Storage-Systems/SAN-and-NAS/Check-HP-MSA-(Modular-Smart-Array)-sensors/details While setting it up on my Proxmox server i found out that...
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    strange problem with two NICs

    Hi! ups...really didn't know that... What would be the best way to configure a bridged second NIC with proxmox? I need two (or more) NICs in the samte 10.0.0.x network with different IPs but using the same gateway (10.0.0.1). Then i would like to allocate the cards to specific guest systems...
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    strange problem with two NICs

    tried another Networkcard too... to no avail! This is really strange. I am sure that something is just misconfigured, only i can't find what... Thanks for your answers Sascha
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    strange problem with two NICs

    Hi Dietmar, thanks for your fast reply. I am sorry to say, that this didn't help. I configured vmbr1 as you said and restartetd the server. Now i have: # network interface settings auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet manual iface eth1 inet manual auto vmbr0 iface vmbr0 inet...
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    strange problem with two NICs

    Hi, first of all i want to say thank you, for this incredible piece of software that Proxmox VE is! Now on to my problem: I have two network cards in my server: hwinfo --netcard 09: PCI 306.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.310] Unique ID: rBUF.49XPc+GN1h3 Parent ID...
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    NFS-storage should work even though non-persistent

    I see...didn't know that. So what would you suggest then? I thought nfs was the easiest way to get this done. thanks again Sascha
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    NFS-storage should work even though non-persistent

    Hi! I installed a debian-machine to work as a NFS-Share for my Proxmox VE Backups. However i don't want the machine to be online 24/7, so i configured the computer to turn on right before the backup (Wakeup in BIOS) and off just after it (cronjob). Unfortunately i have some problems with the...
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    vzdump fails: failed with exit code 141

    Hi Dietmar, thanks for your quick response. I retried the backup today and it worked like a charm... Strange...will monitor things for a while... Thanks again, but i guess we can close this for now! Sascha
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    vzdump fails: failed with exit code 141

    Hi everyone, just installed a second computer with ubuntu as an nfs-storage. The new nfs-storage is perfectly mounted under my proxmox-ve now, and the backup starts to work. But after a while the backup stops and in the generated .log i see this: Aug 18 16:13:01 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101...
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    Proxmox - Guest USB support?

    Hi all! i now encountered the problem as well... Anyone has any idea what we could do? this is a real show stopper, as the software installed on the win7-vm doesn't work at all without the usb dongle... regards, Sascha
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    Backup vzdump failed

    Yup... sfill -llz /home did the trick! backup shrinked from 234 GB to 208 GB... next weekend i'll do a sfill -llz /var/ and i guess that will release another 60 GB or so... Thank you very much for your assistance Sascha
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    Backup vzdump failed

    Allright, thank you for now. I found this thread here, explaining pretty well, which possibilities one seems to have: http://superuser.com/questions/19326/how-to-wipe-free-disk-space-in-linux I guess i'll go for sfill -llz /home and see if that helps... Will report... thank you Sascha
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    Backup vzdump failed

    But you would say the command is ok? sfill -vfz /home Or is there any faster, maybe better way to achieve what we're after? Thank you Sascha
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    Backup vzdump failed

    Hi Dietmar, of course the dir exists! With this command the ooooo.ooo something file is created and the after a long while deleted again. But the result is an even bigger backup. Maybe this command doesn't fill the empty space with zeros but with digits still readable by the backup? What would...
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    Backup vzdump failed

    Oh, i see... So if i got that right from another thread here, sfill would be the tool to use? Can i securely wipe the unused blocks from my kvm-debian macine with it? And if yes, any idea how? Or is an approach with dd maybe more suitable? I don't want to do anything stupid, so i better ask...
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    Allow different compression binaries and configuration for backups

    sfill could be very handy for my backup size problem. (the backup size keeps growing) On my KVM-VM with two VDs on an external iscsi storage: How would i use it to free already empty space for good? Shouldn't touch any real data of course... thanks for your advice Sascha Forgot to mention...

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