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    Bypass the 24-Hour delay for Garbage Collection and force delete pending data in PBS

    Hello, I use Proxmox Backup Server (3.2.9) and often face an issue with my storage. My disk usage is frequently between 90-95% of its capacity. To avoid exceeding 95%, I regularly check the storage status and manually delete some backups I consider non-essential. Afterward, I run a garbage...
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    Stop notification "Garbage Collect Datastore successful"

    Hello, I have a PBS version 3.2-7. Every 2 hours, I receive an email saying “Garbage Collect Datastore ‘backups’ successful”. With the new notification system, I’m not sure how to disable the notification regarding the “Garbage Collect Datastore successful”. Here is my Notification...
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    SSD sata-sas models for RAID

    Hello, I would like to do a RAID5 with 4 2TB SSDs in SATA or SAS. Do you have any “enterprise”/”server” models to recommend? I saw the Samsung PM883 model but I don't know if it is the best choice and if it is still relevant Thanks
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    Your opinion on a hardware configuration

    Hello, I would like to make a Proxmox server to host 4 Windows 10 VMs for not very demanding applications. These would be VMs with 8GB of RAM. What do you think of the following configuration? Supermicro MBD-X12STW-TF CPU : Intel Xeon E-2388G - 8 Core - 16 Threads - 3.2Ghz - 5.1Ghz Turbo - 95W...
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    [Solved] Unable to start garbage collection job on datastore backups - write failed: No space left on device

    Hello, My PBS is full. I deleted a lot of backups, but despite that, the disk remains full. I tried to launch a "Start Garbage Collection", but I get this error: "Unable to start garbage collection job on datastore backups - write failed: No space left on device" I suddenly deleted some files...
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    backup failed randomly

    Hello, I have a Proxmox Server and a Proxmox Backup Server. Every night I make a backup of all my VMs. Unfortunately, almost every night, I have a VM that can't make its backup. Every night is a different VM backup failed (please see screenshot), but always with the same error message : "VM xxx...
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    IPv6 problem on VM Windows with VirtIO (paravirtualized) network adapter

    Hello, I have a problem on several VMs running with Windows (Windows Server 2022 or Windows 10) regarding IPv6 connectivity in my Proxmox VE 7.3.4. Indeed, on each VM I have a network device in model VirtIO (paravirtualized). The guest agent (virtio-win-0.1.173-2) is installed on Windows...
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    Sharing files between multiple VMs

    Hello, I have a Proxmox with an LVM-Thin storage data of 5.9TB. I have multiple Windows VMs on which I need the same files. What is the best pratice for a shared storage space accessible by all the VMs? - Create a Windows VM with a file share - Create a TrueNAS VM - Other ? more adapted ...
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    macOS Monterey guest tools ?

    Hello, Is there an equivalent to guest tools for Windows on a Proxmox 7 VM with a macOS Monterey? For example to be able to shutdown the macOS from Proxmox Thanks Fabien
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    Advise for raid ZFS data

    Hello, I would like some advice for my data raid. I have a Proxmox with 4 SSD 2TB for data. (64Go ram, Intel Xeon 3.7GHz 8 core) On this data raid I would like to put several Windows and Linux VMs. The but is : fast raid and the security of being able to lose 1 disc I started by doing a...
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    ZFS VM data encryption

    Hello, I have a ZFS data raid that I use as a data disk for my VMs. My question is: does ZFS encrypt data by default? Do I have to enable Bitlocker style encryption on my Windows VMs or does ZFS natively encrypt the data? thanks
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    Windows 10 clone : Sysprep not work

    Hello, I created a Windows 10 VM on which I did all the updates, installed all the drivers, made all my personnal configurations and now I would like to be able to duplicate this VM. So, I wanted to convert this VM as a template but before, that I saw that it was necessary to run the SYSPREP...
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    Data displays too high used capacity?

    Hello, I have a 5TB ZFS raid that I use as data for several VMs. When I go to data> summary, it says there is 8.58% used : 449GB used of 5TB (see in attach)., Yet I am not using 449GB. When I go to see in my VM Disk, the total is 276GB and it's correct. Where is the 173GB difference...
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    Shared data disk for several VMs

    Hello, I did a ZFS raid to use as data disk for all of my VMs. I would also like to make a data disk that would also be used (shared) on several VMs (with the possibility of also accessing this disk remotely in SMB) Do I have to assign this disk to a VM that would act as a server for the...
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    Anormal ram usage

    Hello, I just installed my Proxmox server. I have a strange phenomenon. The installation is brand new, I have no VMs started and I have constant ram usage at 18Go. Would this be normal behavior with ZFS using available ram to cache? If so, is it quite disturbing because we do not know how to...