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Does anybody do local vzbackup VM backups, excluding directories containing lots of user data, and then separately backup that user data to cloud storage? The above is what I'm thinking of doing, and it would be nice to know someone else is going it, and if there are obvious pitfalls I've...

This is a bit of a dumb question, but better safe than sorry, I think. Some time ago I upgraded a Proxmox 5.x system to 6.x (and obviously part of that was going from Stretch to Buster) following the Proxmox upgrade instructions exactly. All is well and I'm having no problems. But I note the...

This is relating to PVE 6.2 I update my nodes relatively frequently and obviously keep an ear open for important updates that might mean an update needs to be done sooner rather than later. Today I had expected to need to install a grub2 update along with the associated bits and bobs, but...

Is there any special handling of mysql databases required when using PBS to backup VMs via PVE? Keeping in mind that I'm no mysql expert (and not a backup expert either!): With Acronis backups, which need a client installed in the VM, a freeze script is launched that I think freezes mysql...

I'm having some interesting problems with the beta. Essentally, when I run a backup via PVE, the VM crashes and I see a segfault in the host node syslog. Here's what I did: I have two nodes in a cluster, both with local storage only. In PVE, I created a VM and installed PBS from the ISO (all...

This may have nothing to do with PVE, but I thought I'd better check anyway, because I'm getting really confused. I have some Centos 7 VMs where I can't load the overlay module using "modprobe overlay": modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'overlay': Operation not permitted I can't see anything...

I wonder if some kind person would offer some advice please? I'm wondering what proxmox-related services need a service restart after an update for them is installed ? Or even mandate a node reboot (other than the kernel, of course)? Right now I'm thinking in particular of the qemu-server...

Several people have posted about problems with VMs not booting with "no Bootable Media found" errors recently. Yes, we're only taking about 2 or 3 users posting about a problem out of many, many thousands, but it is clearly not an isolated incident with only one user being unlucky and...

I'm wondering if anybody can offer me any advice on handling large VM disk volumes We only use RAID10 local storage, no ZFS, no Ceph. We copy backups to a second node and also to S3. I have a customer with a VM that has a 500GB disk in lvm-thin. He's used almost all his allocation. Backing it...

I'm confused (again) - this time about predictable network names. I have two *on-board* Ethernet ports enabled on a Dell server running PM 5.4 (this system has always been 5.x from the start) My network interface names are en0 and en1 # ls /sys/class/net/ eno1 eno2 lo vmbr0 I believe...

The new kernel flaw that's making the news is very worrying. I hope an email be sent to Proxmox Subscribers when a kernel update for Proxmox is available that resolves this? There doesn't seem to be a Proxmox "updates" mailing list or a "security" mailing list or blog/rss/anything. I really...

I'm a little concerned about the way that updates are released for Proxmox. As we require stability more than anything else, we are very cautious about updates. I am also new to Debian and Proxmox, so there's even more caution involved. A recent update that was released for 5.3 had the...

I was trying to boot a VM from a Centos live CD, and ended up with a "No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found" and a "boot:" prompt on the console. Nothing I can do via the GUI will allow me to reset/shutdown this VM. Shutdown just sits there waiting and waiting. And I suspect that...

In the event of an OS or Proxmox software disaster -- for example an update that goes wrong, or accidental deletion of system files, or some other serious problem that cannot be resolved easily or prevents the system from booting or similar, can someone please tell me if there is a way to...

When I choose a VM or Container in the GUI, and click in the Backups option, by default I can only see the backups that have been made in the default backup location (this being the first location ID, sorted alphabetically A>Z>a>z). I would really like to see all backups stored all at once, no...

I want to automate my VM backups but I'm not sure of the best way to achieve what I want. I want to backup each VM weekly, keeping a total of 4 backups EXCEPT for one particular VM, which has a huge disk volume, and I only want to keep one backup for this one. Adding to the complication, I...

I'm having problems limiting memory in an LXC container and would appreciate some help please. I have created a Centos 7 Container with the following settings: arch: amd64 cores: 2 cpuunits: 10 hostname: [redacted] memory: 512 mp0: /backup2/pm2/dump,mp=/mnt/pm2dump,ro=1 net0: name=[redacted]...

On a fresh PM 5.2 install, I happened to run "mailq" on a node and saw that there were 8 messages to "root" that were stuck in the queue. These messages were from smartd, trying to email "root" about some unreadable/pending disk sectors. The messages could not be delivered because postfix...

Please can someone help me understand what's happening? On one node in a two-node cluster, I'm seeing pve-firewall show up in "top" using 30% to 40% CPU for a second or so, every 10 seconds or so. This doesn't happen on the other node. These are new nodes and barely being used. I have one VE...

I am curious to know what Proxmox users' thoughts are on whether or not to use LVM in a simple VM with local storage? I find myself unable to decide and I could do with some advice on this. My VMs are all for website hosting. The disk volumes are all stored on local storage and will very...