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    Backing up a mail server

    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...
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    [SOLVED] /dev/.lxc-boot-id

    Yes. Ah, the missing link. So the recent lxc-pve package update is responsible for the new behavior. Thank you!
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    [SOLVED] /dev/.lxc-boot-id

    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!
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    Support request: Container disk usage differences

    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...
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    Support request: Container disk usage differences

    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...
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    Running fstrim on guests

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

    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...
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    Shrinking XP disks

    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...
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    Running fstrim on guests

    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]/...
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    Running fstrim on guests

    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...
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    Determining when a guest was stopped

    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...
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    Support request: authkey rotation?

    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...
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    Support request: authkey rotation?

    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...
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    Support Request: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning

    Of the three Debian 10 test systems, only one exhibits the error message. Below are sanitized copies of two of the conf files.. I see no significant differences. All /etc/pve/firewall/*.fw files are identical. /etc/pve/lxc/506.conf Public IP #Debian 10 arch: amd64 cores: 1 hostname...
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    Support Request: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning

    I forgot to add in my original post that I had already tried nested. Mysteriously, one of the systems stopped exhibiting the messages. There were full host reboots some days ago for kernel updates. All systems were rebooted. I did find on the original behaving system the pve firewall was...
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    Support Request: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning

    Proxmox 5.4, fully updated. I am prototyping three Debian 10 containers. In two of the systems I see the log spew noted in the thread title. In one system I don't. Poking around the web indicates the solution is PrivateTmp=false. I configured all three systems with that parameter and...
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    No ping with rp_filter (reverse path filter) = 1

    The default sysctl rp_filter configuration is 2 (loose) set in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/pve-firewall.conf. Changing the setting to 1 (strict) in /etc/sysctl.conf results in not being able to ping one Proxmox system. Changing to 1 did not affect other Proxmox systems. Where do I start poking and...
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    False needrestart trigger

    We're running 5.x fully updated. I suspect the trigger is caused by privileged containers. In your test did you use unprivileged? We use privileged containers to support NFS.