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Ok, thanks for added detail. This is 'weird' because - this setup is very (very) vanilla - stock proxmox ISO installer was used originally for deployment. It has been through a few in-place upgrades over a ~few years but nothing problematic with that normally. Hardware is ~plain (lenovo, stock...

HI, thanks for suggestion. I had not tried the InstallerISO>Rescue option. In theory I can try that as an Edu piece. Might be good to see what it tells me. I am not super keen to do a reinstall 'just to see how it goes'. But it is indeed an option to try I suppose. I do have this proxmox...

Footnote on the thread, I did a bit more dig in forum, and found this discussion which sounds very much maybe like the right thing possibly I need to chase. https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-8-3-1-cant-detect-disks-with-lsi-megaraid.159858/ So I'll give that a go sometime - looks like...

Hi, small fun question I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on. I've got a ~decent box at a client office - it is not latest hardware - was deployed as a 'refurb' lenovo tower server box, dual socket xeon, 96gb ram, megaraid hardware raid It was originally deployed as Proxmox v6 when that was...

Hi, thank you for this added info. I agree, it is not fast. (ie, ~>24 hours to do a full restore). I believe it is acceptable for the recovery time for this client. Drama for backup - I don't have enough free space local cache to do tempdir - suspend mode. So I am kind of stuck here with my...

arrgh, sorry chris. I am re-reading thread now and I see I had missed your one point. a few posts back. You are suggesting the job on Jan.26 ran successfully and fast, without metadata mode. And it took ~2 hours approx. And then I am trying to do metadata backup jobs since then. I was under the...

Hi Chris, thank you. So just to check and to clarify. 1) Right now my deployment model, is to setup a new PBS host any time I setup new related proxmox/cluster requirement. This gives me clean separation of resources (ie, disk, bandwidth, CPU-RAM) between any given Proxmox cluster and PBS that...

Apologies to those reading this / for my use of sloppy syntax in this thread, ie, I'm calling things here in this thread a "VM" when that means precisely a KVM VM and that is definitely not remotely what I am trying to talk about here. I am speaking only of "Container LXC based guests" and I was...

Hi Chris, I am still confused, for clarity. In this situation I have one proxmox cluster, one backup config panel for this cluster and three jobs exist therein. I have 7 proxmox node inside this cluster they all talk to the one PBS host there is no 'standalone proxmox host' which is outside...

Hi, here is view in PBS for VM101, not sure if this gives insight about anything. The jan-26-2025 is my last good backup, which is this snip view below. As I generated this snip, I also wonder - is there maybe a timeout on client site <> PBS Client <> talking to PBS server <> which allows it...

Hi, thank you for all the very detailed / clarification and infomation - in this situation I have just the one proxmox cluster (7 proxmox nodes) talking to this one PBS host. There is no other proxmox cluster connected to this PBS host. - I realize as I read your notes most recent - I am quite...

I agree, I see that also. Can you please tell me more verbosely what you mean with "multiple backups to same backup group" ? (I then also don't understand how it worked with success even once for metadata mode?) and for more detail-clarity. My Proxmox cluster has 3x jobs defined in the...

Ok, here is info from log. Good-fast at top, then bad-slow at bottom. Thank you! (* for clarity, I have obscured the IP address of the PBS server to be shown as 1XX.1XX.2XX.171 - it is a real valid public IP address which I just prefer to not post to the forum in the full non-obscured version...

Hi, thank you for the reply. Greatly appreciated. I am pretty certain I've got just one PBS archive target. One detail I neglected to mention. The PBS target is being used by a group of proxmox nodes in a shared-nothing proxmox cluster (7 proxmox hosts in total, and a single PBS host. The PBS...

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to loop back to this thread for a little more input if possible. Context piece: I am trying to get a better understanding of how LXC Backups - duration-speed - is impacted by the 'metadata' mode for LXC Container backup to PBS Backup server. In my specific cases...

Hi, thanks for clarify footnotes. I agree, I mis-typed and said the opposite of what I meant, more or less, I think , ie, LVM and ZFS have built-in snapshot support as a "filesystem feature" EXT3/EXT4 does not CIFS and NFS mount filesystems do not and there are uses of snaps other than...

Hi, thank you! :-) yes - Metadata mode is definitely only for LXC Containers. Not KVM hosts. I believe KVM will do the 'block deltas - change block tracking' automatically, so long as you do not power off your VM between backups / and do snapshot style backup method of the KVM VM. I these...

Hi, just to followup on the thread, after poking at settings and config for a few days. Endgame summary from this story, in case it helps anyone else. the settings are made in proxmox - backup - job config for the job in question - there are tabs along the 'backup job' webUI settings I had...

oh, my, that looks very interesting. Thank you! Can you clarify where-how I might make the config tweak to use/try this new metadata flag? I can't quite tell if I might enable it for backup for just one VM, vs all backup on a given proxmox node, vs all backups on a given PBS host ? Sorry if I'm...

Hi, I am just posting to make sure I have my understanding on this topic correct. Core issue - relates to backup speeds for LXC containers using proxmox and PBS/latest. Most of the time, most LXC Containers I am running are ~relatively small (50gig or less; often smaller - 20gig etc) I have one...