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    How do reduce/optimize backup sizes

    Yeah, I will need to check out a similar setup, but in the US.
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    How do reduce/optimize backup sizes

    Yes, I have that locally, but I still would like to have a cloud backup (obviously in another location)
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    How do reduce/optimize backup sizes

    Looks like I am having the same issues - did you find a resolution?
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    How do reduce/optimize backup sizes

    Thanks, fstrim results finally kicked in and I was able to reduce the backups sizes quite a bit. Thanks!
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    How do reduce/optimize backup sizes

    Do you use two disks for a VM! One for the OS and one for data or do you have only one?
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    How do reduce/optimize backup sizes

    Hi everyone, I am doing local backups via PBS, but I also create vzdump backups that I back up to OneDrive via restic. I have tried to optimize backup sizes with cleaning up docker, fstrim as well as activating "ssd" and "discard" for the respective VMs. I have multiple VMs that confuse me...
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    Backup PBS to cloud provider with incremental chunks

    Trying to save some power with not having the backup server running 24/7 Can you share how this setup works exactly? Do you run that PBS yourself on a VPS?
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    Backup PBS to cloud provider with incremental chunks

    Thanks - will check it out. Maybe I will do restic instead of rclone to OneDrive then. Another change in approach, probalby the 5th in 3 days, lol
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    Backup PBS to cloud provider with incremental chunks

    Looks like snapshots is the main differentiating factor between restic and rclone
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    Backup PBS to cloud provider with incremental chunks

    Thanks for the very thorough answer. I think I will go for a split approach: Local backups with PBS - one directly on my homelab server with a sync to the PBS backup server twice a week. This way I have incremental backups. Remote backups with vzdump that will be uploaded to OneDrive. In case...
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    Backup PBS to cloud provider with incremental chunks

    Hi, I have not found a solution online for this. I would like to backup my PBS backups to OneDrive and be able to only upload incremental changes just as PBS does it. The execution does not seem to be a problem, I can upload the files (incl. chunks) to OneDrive via rclone. I woud like to do that...
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    How to improve NFS performance for PBS backups?

    I will just give PBS a portion of an NVMe on my server instead of USB. Just to make sure I get the steps right 1. Delete the current datastore, but do not delete the data (kind of obvious) 2. Create folder on the new drive (see above) 3. Create new datastore linked to the folder in 2. 4. Use...
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    How to improve NFS performance for PBS backups?

    Thanks for the feedback - Is it possible to just change the folder of a datastore in PBS (and switch it to an SSD), so that I can keep all my storage and backup jobs as-is? Would like to avoid to set up everything again from scratch. Is it possible to move the data as well or do I have to create...
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    How to improve NFS performance for PBS backups?

    Thanks for the feedback - I use HDDs on the TrueNAS server. Maybe will also need to live with the speed, until I am able to replace those HDDs with SDDs (at least for the PBS portion). Will try fio next!
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    How to improve NFS performance for PBS backups?

    Hi everyone, I am running PBS as a VM on Proxmox and I am also running several other VMs on that Proxmox server. All VMs run on an NVMe drive. I also run Truenas Scale as another VM on the same server. Truenas has a few NFS shares and I use one of the NFS shares (HDD Raid1) to create backups of...
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    Proxmox cluster with two nodes with identical names

    Thanks, this is helpful feedback. I read that you can give 2 votes to one nodes in a cluster or use a qdevice. Correct, going back to my previous comment, main would mean the node with two votes. I have not found that anywhere? Can someone else confirm this as well?
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    Proxmox cluster with two nodes with identical names

    Hi everyone, I have 2 proxmox servers that serve different funtions. One is my router and hosts essential services (e.g. homebridge) and one is for other services like plex. I would still like to create a cluster (to benefit from VM migration etc.) and have the essential one as main and the...
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    Why does the cronjob not run as root while the manual command works fine?

    Thanks, but apparently this was not it. New error message from smartctl: =======> UNRECOGNIZED OPTION: host-id Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
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    Why does the cronjob not run as root while the manual command works fine?

    Hi everyone, I have installed scrutiny on my proxmox server and when I manually execute the command, it runs through fine, but when I add it to crontab -e for root, it errors out with the following error message: "ERROR: DependencyMissingError: "smartctl binary is missing" This is the command...