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Hi, thanks for clarify footnotes. I agree, I mis-typed and said the opposite of what I meant, more or less, I think , ie, LVM and ZFS have built-in snapshot support as a "filesystem feature" EXT3/EXT4 does not CIFS and NFS mount filesystems do not and there are uses of snaps other than...

Hi, thank you! :-) yes - Metadata mode is definitely only for LXC Containers. Not KVM hosts. I believe KVM will do the 'block deltas - change block tracking' automatically, so long as you do not power off your VM between backups / and do snapshot style backup method of the KVM VM. I these...

Hi, just to followup on the thread, after poking at settings and config for a few days. Endgame summary from this story, in case it helps anyone else. the settings are made in proxmox - backup - job config for the job in question - there are tabs along the 'backup job' webUI settings I had...

oh, my, that looks very interesting. Thank you! Can you clarify where-how I might make the config tweak to use/try this new metadata flag? I can't quite tell if I might enable it for backup for just one VM, vs all backup on a given proxmox node, vs all backups on a given PBS host ? Sorry if I'm...

Hi, I am just posting to make sure I have my understanding on this topic correct. Core issue - relates to backup speeds for LXC containers using proxmox and PBS/latest. Most of the time, most LXC Containers I am running are ~relatively small (50gig or less; often smaller - 20gig etc) I have one...

Ok, thank you, I will try to chase this a bit and see if I can find anything. Since the VM(s) involved are all based on now a very old stale version of CentOS I think long term the solution most likely here is, (a) Setup new VM on new template to replace old, (b) migrate Tomcat app thing from...

Hi, this is a bit of an insane question, but anyhow. I've got a client with a legacy proxmox host with some legacy containers Proxmox itself was updated over time. The legacy service VM were left behind, some are running CentOS v6.3 I was able to do some trickery to get the CentOS VM 6.3...

As a footnote. To some extent I feel like the advent of the excellent PBS feature set - has made some of this stuff less pressing to some folks (ie, me and my clients for sure). Generally my client base are happy if I've got them setup on a "Primary proxmox" which is backed up to a local PBS <>...

Hi, thank you for the replies! I agree that - once you get onto a working config (be it EXT4, ZFS, or other) - you need some motivation to change "if it ain't broke don't fix' sort of - to some extent that is my situation, I have a vanilla OVH Proxmox MD Raid config that 'just works fine' and...

Also for clarity, I am quite certain that there are excellent situations where ZFS makes great sense for proxmox. Clearly ZFS is integrated in proxmox for quite a long time now, is well supported, and lots of people use it. I've still remained under the impression (possibly purely my ignorance)...

Hi, OK - I will comment - I was not trying to get into discussion of ZFS, rather was trying to get info about BTRFS. But.... The last time I tested ZFS (definitely more than a few years ago), I found that there were 'behind the scene performance issues' associated with filesystem activity "some...

Hi, I am curious to ask. I've bumped into BTRFS over the last few years and most of the time avoided it in favour of EXT4. Just because - use case was not there, and trust was also not yet there. I'm now mindful that BTRFS is less young and sharp on the edges maybe (ie, less prone to randomly...

For what it is worth (I am posting back to thread >2 years after my earlier post in 2022) -- I have a number of clients on proxmox 'in office' and I have PBS-offsite. And generally I have topology of PBS onsite with the proxmox onsite box, and then PBS offsite <> does a sync to pull data from...

Ah, lovely, thank you! I had clearly totally missed this distinction. I've set his permission to the PBS datastore to be "PVEDatastoreUser " and now it works perfectly. Just superb. Thanks!!

for clarity here are some snips to show what is currently working, albeit a bit over permissive I think in terms of access allows user 'alan' to manage VM designated as admin(is ok) but alllows user 'alan' full view on the PBS datastore indicated (over permissive but tolerable) Tim

Hi, thank you Fabian for the reply! I think I may have figured out - let me know your thought? In attempting to set this up I allocated permission onto a single VM specifically (only) for the user being setup. I only just now added a similar permission control onto the PBS datastore shown in...

Hi, I am curious, I am gently banging my head on this same topic today, ~a year later (Aug.2024) and I'm curious if there is a way to do this so it works, via the webUI admin interface only? my scenario, is that I'm trying to grant one person admin access onto a single VM on a single proxmox...

Footnote, I realize that the wondershaper version available in debian via apt-get is old (v1.x not v2.x) and the flags are different between these versions / and some folks online suggest v1-older has 'issues' maybe. I did find today that after things were throttled - the inbound data rate to...

Hi Fabian, thank you for pointing this out. For sure the built-in traffic control is the clean way to do this. I realize now as I look, this client is setup on old not latest PBS version. I need to get them updated. Ugh. The version they are running lacks this traffic control. Definitely...

Hi, in case this is helpful for other people, (or for me to find this hint in future :) ) I've got a basic client site config with Proxmox server onsite at office PBS server onsite at office PBS server offsite in data centre in nearby city / for offsite data sync from PBS_onsite replication of...