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    Min/Maxing EBS Volumes on an AWS backup server

    In a previous post, I discussed how an St1 Volume backs our remote backups on EC2. As we rapidly reached the Maximum size of an ST1 EBS Volume. ZFS has entered to save the day with v2.3 and the ability to quickly and easily add disks to zraids. On paper, an array of 4 8TB ST1 volumes should...
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    Backup Client "Split Backups" - No such file or directory (os error 2)

    This is more of an "Am I just stupid" post. I have some legacy VMware VMs that I cannot move to Proxmox because of software licenses that are tied to (virtual) hardware. I have set up and configured our VMWare server to perform frequent backups. Of the /vmware mount point. It's standard stuff...
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    "Unable to acquire lock" flags remote sync jobs as failed ❌

    OK, I know that this is not an issue that most people are dealing with. 2023-02-02T09:27:20-06:00: sync group vm/105 failed - unable to acquire lock on snapshot directory "/mnt/datastore/PBS-01_ZFS-1/vm/105/2023-02-02T15:30:03Z" - locked by another operation We take backups of our Logging an...
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    Proxmox Backup time offset.

    So I'm sure this question has been answered but I must be using the wrong words in my search. simply put. I need to add an offset to my schedule. I would like to Perform a Backup every half hour plus 10 min. so *:10 and *:40 what would be the best way to express this in a single argument? Or...
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    Advanced pruning issues? looking for work arounds.

    So we have some servers that have different intervals for backups. 30m, (internal databases) 1h, (RDP servers) 24h, (Servers that don't have much local data but still have some regular changes. We can configure purge policy in the cluster, But that will run purge and Garbage Collection as part...
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    AWS tape gateway? or something else?

    I am looking for suggestions. I have a small number of VM's that are critical for me and I want to offsite my backups to AWS. I would really like to use an amazon Tape Gateway, This makes sense to me because I already have a stack of LTO5 tapes that will need to be migrated. I know there have...