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1. In the "inventory" tab of the "tape backup" screen, what is the difference between the buttons "Remove" and "Format"? (I don't dare to try...) 2. Does "format" obtain the same effect as the shell command "proxmox-tape format"? 3. I tried reading the man pages, but apparently, the "set...

I don't think it was "already part of the media set and writeable". The story went this way: 1. I had the mediaset comprising tapes GTD000 and GTD001 (neither was completely full, btw). 2. Using the GUI, I marked both GTD000 and GTD001 as vaulted and full. At this point, the media-set did not...

The setup: it's a PVE 9.1.5 server who launches the backup; it The PBS machine has been recently upgraded to 4.1.2. As reported above, the command that launched this particular backup was: proxmox-backup-client backup giov.pxar:/rpool/giov --repository 10.0.1.7:giov "rpool/giov" is a ZFS...

This is the log: 2026-02-13T16:48:19+01:00: Starting tape backup job 'giov:vmp0:ibm_lto6:tbj-giov' 2026-02-13T16:48:19+01:00: update media online status 2026-02-13T16:48:19+01:00: media set uuid: [...] 2026-02-13T16:48:20+01:00: found 1 groups (out of 1 total) 2026-02-13T16:48:21+01:00: skip...

@dcsapak I am reopening this old thread because I have the same problem as the OP. Apparently either this still has not been fixed/documented, or I don't understand how it works. I have a standalone tape drive, and I perform small backup jobs, all writing to the same media set, which has...

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Hello, I have succesfully completed the upgrade from pve 8 to 9. I have read too late this note in the configuration instructions: /etc/lvm/lvm.conf -> Changes relevant for Proxmox VE will be updated, and a newer config version might be useful.If you did not make extra changes yourself and...

When the documentation says that Proxmox VE "X" supports Debian "Y", what it exactly refers to? I suppose it means that Proxmox is based on that Debian version, and also that containers can run that Debian version. But what about VMs? Can an old release of Proxmox run a VM on which a recent...

Whoa! I misread the warning in the UI. I am off by one year :) If I upgrade PVE, after that will I be able to boot the old containers to launch the debian upgrade?

I have some proxmox containers running Debian 10, on a machine with PVE 6.4. Now I need to upgrade those to Debian 11 and then 12 (because I need certain recent packages). Can I do it with PVE 6.4? I ask because I know containers use the host's kernel, so I am not sure how this works. Or...

Thus to manually delete an old media-set and reuse its tapes, the correct way is just to select the tapes that belong to it and click FORMAT? (The reason is: since I backup manually without a fixed schedule, I am forced to set the retention policy to forever, but I don't really want to keep...

@dcsapak: I understand that the retention policy specifies when a media-set is retired. Currently, it appears it is only possible to specify a time interval (e.g. retire after two weeks). This is appropriate for scheduled backups, but it seems to me that it does not work well for manual backups...

Thanks a lot Dominik. Thus the proposed --force argument means "from now on use this password – but be warned that the old tapes still use the old one". Ok. By the way I noticed two little problems in the command: 1. The command currently asks for both the old and new password before...

@dcsapak maybe? :-)

I am using PBS to backup to tape. I have enabled encryption. Two questions: 1. I am not 100% sure that I have written down my password exactly. My backup server is still in good health, so I suppose I have the keys in /etc/proxmox-backup. Is there a way to retrieve the password, or at least to...

@dcsapak I don't need to follow that scheme exactly; what I would like to achieve, somehow, is simply to have frequent backups for recent times, and then more spaced backups for less recent times. For example, daily backups for the last 7 days, then weekly backups for the last 4 weeks, then...

Before PBS, I managed my tape backups manually using a ladder schedule, for example: Do a daily backup Keep the last 7 days. Every 7 days, move the backup to the "weekly" category Keep the last 4 weeklies. Every 4 weeks, move the backup to the "monthly" category Keep the monthlies indefinitely...

feature request here

WIth the instructions above and a little tweaking, I installed proxmox-backup-client on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arm64 on a Raspberry PI 4: # get and install rust curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh # get and install required dependencies apt install libclang-dev llvm gcc g++ clang-7 libacl1-dev...

I run tape backups without a fixed schedule; my datasets are rather small, so a single tape can contain several. (I have a simple drive, no library or tape changer). Since I have no fixed schedule, I set continue as my media set allocation policy. The idea is to trigger manually a new set...