Search results

  1. K

    Storage shared flag: is it needed for backups?

    It's not clear from the documentation, but looks like the shared flag only makes sense if the storage is for vm disks, so PVE would know not to copy the data if a vm is running on a shared storage. The question is whether it is needed to tick "shared" if it's a shared storage for backups? Does...
  2. K

    Suspended VMs do not get backed up: bug or feature?

    So basically the same situation as with a stopped vm, but backup of a stopped vm works. Looks like inability to backup a suspended vm is a bug then?
  3. K

    Suspended VMs do not get backed up: bug or feature?

    I noticed that the backup of a suspended vm does not work: INFO: Starting Backup of VM 10005 (qemu) INFO: Backup started at 2024-05-27 19:04:37 INFO: status = stopped ERROR: Backup of VM 10005 failed - VM is locked (suspended) Is this a bug or a feature? I don't see a reason why can't we treat...
  4. K

    Cannot delete user: invalid version string

    @VictorSTS works this way, thank you very much.
  5. K

    Cannot delete user: invalid version string

    Hello, I have a cluster of PVE 7 hosts which I want to upgrade to PVE 8 in-place. After updating one host, I cannot delete users in Datancenter -> Users: delete user failed: cannot update tfa config, following nodes are not up to date: cluster node 'pd115' provided an invalid version string...
  6. K

    Why backup needs a global lock?

    When one backup is running, the second backup of another VM cannot start with This has been discussed million times on this forum, but the answers generally are either do not start two backups at the same time or increase the timeout so the second job can start later. All these threads miss...