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    How do I only enable hook script when spinning up VMs but not for snapshot backups

    Thank you for your help, I'll try to implement this and report back!
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    How do I only enable hook script when spinning up VMs but not for snapshot backups

    Gotcha! Then it doesn't sound like there's a way to automate this w/o any manual intervention i.e. turning off one VM (or play around with qemu monitor) before a backup job starts, right?
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    How do I only enable hook script when spinning up VMs but not for snapshot backups

    Thanks, that makes a lot of sense! Do you know if there's a way to do a conditional passthrough at the KVM configuration? $ cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf ... hostpci1: 08:00.0,pcie=1 ...
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    How do I only enable hook script when spinning up VMs but not for snapshot backups

    The issue is that I am unable to run a backup of a VM while another is running. The VMs in question are (1) a Windows 10 VM and (2) an OS X VM. I am doing a PCIe passthrough of a GPU and USB controller to both, such that only of these two VMs can be run at one time. While there is no issue...
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    How do I only enable hook script when spinning up VMs but not for snapshot backups

    Thank you, that makes sense. Do you by any chance if there is a way to conditionally passthough PCIe depending on whether a VM is cold-started or snapshotted (as in a backup)?
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    How do I only enable hook script when spinning up VMs but not for snapshot backups

    Hi, I am running a PVE 6.3 server with several VMs with PCIe passthrough (GPU, USB, etc.). I'm using a hook script for a few of these VMs (as a hookscript: ... in /etc/pve/qemu-server/XXX.conf). I am also running regular backups (snapshot mode) of these VMs using PVE, but I would like the...
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    Using a ZFS pool for backups (iso, vztmpl)

    I figured it out, I simply made sure that ZFS pools are mounted before PVE storage runs. $ cat /lib/systemd/system/pve-storage.target After=zfs-mount.service
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    Using a ZFS pool for backups (iso, vztmpl)

    Hi, I have a ZFS dataset intended for backing up QEMU and LXC images. root@doctor:~# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT slim 1.81T 163G 1.65T - - 0% 8% 1.00x ONLINE - root@doctor:~# zfs list NAME...