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    Backup to external usb drive

    Hi Team, Could anyone assist. I used to run proxmox 4 and was able to connect a usb drive to do offsite backup. After upgrading to proxmox 5 that does not work anymore. I have tried to do a fresh install of proxmox 5 but still have the same problem. The way the drive was being mounted was via...
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    install error

    Hi Team, i have tried to do a new install of proxmox 5 proxmox-ve_5.0-af4267bf-4. I have burned it on 2 different cds and also tried 2 different servers but it fails at the exact same point. The error it throws is : " Command `chroot /target dpkg --force-confold --configure -a` failed with...
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    udev rules not working

    Hi team, I run a weekly backup to a usb HDD and used to mount it with a udev rule. Since I updated from proxmox 4.4 to 5, the rule is not working anymore. Could anyone advise please? Here is the rule: 11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]"...
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    Antivirus for windows 2012R2 KVM

    Good to know. I was looking at mcafee move which claims to offload the scanning to the server instead of the KVM but that seems to be for vmware :-(
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    Antivirus for windows 2012R2 KVM

    what about performance during the like on access scans, do you see any drop in performance sorry just trying to find the right one :-)
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    Antivirus for windows 2012R2 KVM

    Hi team, Can anyone share whats the best antivirus to run on a windows 2012R2 box running file and print services with active directory. The reason of the question is we are looking for an av that will not kill the kvm. Proxmox is the latest stable release of : proxmox-ve: 4.4-87 (running...
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    error while deleting snapshot

    Hi Team, I am getting th efollowing error while trying to delete snapshots from a kvm server. The kvm is cent os 7 and is switch off. Errors : qemu-img: Could not delete snapshot 'snapshot6': Failed to free the cluster and L1 table: Invalid argument TASK ERROR: command '/usr/bin/qemu-img...
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    cant login of ip change

    also how can i rename this server pls
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    cant login of ip change

    Hi team, running the latest version of proxmox. I need to change the ip address of a standalone install so I went on the gui and change the ip on the vmbr0 nic. Rebooted but could not login from the gui anymore. try google and realised had to change /etc/host file also which I did but still...
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    snapshot recover to a new server

    yep that did the trick cheers rajbps
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    snapshot recover to a new server

    So just copy the snapshot bits from the old config file to the new config file and thats all whats needed. correct?
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    snapshot recover to a new server

    Hi Team, Running the latest version of proxmox. Yesterday the server crashed and when I looked at the console I was getting a log of "serial8250 too much work for irq3" messages. I tried to reboot but machine kept on hanging. I had a copy of the qemu-server folder so took the disks out put in...
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    Failover setup

    Hi Team, I am looking to setup the following setup and was looking for some advice please. 2 sites A and B. A will have 1 server running proxmox and a storage ie synology ds412 or something like.Site B will have the same. They are connected via a permanent VPN. Site A will be primary and site...
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    auto start of vm when rebooting host

    Hiya, I am running the latest version of proxmox: proxmox-ve: 4.2-56 (running kernel: 4.4.13-1-pve) pve-manager: 4.2-15 (running version: 4.2-15/6669ad2c) pve-kernel-4.4.6-1-pve: 4.4.6-48 pve-kernel-4.4.13-1-pve: 4.4.13-56 pve-kernel-4.2.6-1-pve: 4.2.6-36 pve-kernel-4.4.8-1-pve: 4.4.8-52...
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    optimise windows server for backup

    Hi Team, I have proxmox with the latest version: proxmox-ve: 4.2-56 (running kernel: 4.4.13-1-pve) pve-manager: 4.2-15 (running version: 4.2-15/6669ad2c) pve-kernel-4.4.6-1-pve: 4.4.6-48 pve-kernel-4.4.13-1-pve: 4.4.13-56 pve-kernel-4.2.6-1-pve: 4.2.6-36 pve-kernel-4.4.8-1-pve: 4.4.8-52...
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    usb passthrough timing out

    HI Team, I have installed a kvm of ubuntu server 64 bit 15.10. I haven done a usb passthrough to the vm by adding the line in the config file of the vm usb0: host=1-2.4 This device is a vodaphone usb dongle: Bus 001 Device 008: ID 12d1:14cc Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. if i do a : dmesg |...
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    feature request usb back with password protection

    Hi Proxmox team, Would it be possible to have a feature where we can add usb storage for offsite backups and have that passowrd protected. I know there are scripts that can be added but the gui might be th ebest way for everyone. Also in a smb environment there will not be a budget to have HA...
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    error closing file '/var/log/pve/tasks/active.tmp.3156' failed - No space left on device (500)

    ok i think found my problem, I have a backup routine to backup to an external usb drive with 3.4 i used to use usbmount but that does not work with 4.1 so i use udev from the link below http://www.axllent.org/docs/view/auto-mounting-usb-storage/ Its mounted to /media/offsite I believe the...
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    error closing file '/var/log/pve/tasks/active.tmp.3156' failed - No space left on device (500)

    hiya, Thanks for the help. Have tried to look for logs not but very much there no backup in the local disks as "/var/lib/vz/dump" running find / -xdev -size +100M I cant find anything on the local disk: root@master:~# find / -xdev -size +50M...

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