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Hi Is there a way to specify the "target" for a "proxmox-backup-client restore" that will write directly to a ceph cluster to create a new RBD image? I've hunted through the doco but can't find anything other than restoring to a file on a local filesystem. Thanks David ...

Hi We're evaluating PBS and for our-use case I created 2 datastores on the same underlying filesystem. The reason for the 2 datastores is that some of the backups are to be sync'ed offsite, but not all of them. So, 1 datastore for replicated backups and the other datastore for local-only...

Hi Installing the dashboard on our lab cluster was very simple. But it doesn't show any of the performance or monitoring data I was looking for. The Ceph documentation says to just enable it with cephadm but that's obviously a bad idea on a PVE orchestrated ceph cluster. So is there a PVE...

I've tried to get help with this via a support ticket but the responsiveness has been absolutely terrible and the information unhelpful. So, I'll ask here. We are seeing the dreaded "Invalid PVE ticket (401)" yet again. It happens every couple of months for no reason we can find. Restarting...

Hi After a couple of weeks of testing we're pretty impressed by PBS. We've started running it in parallel to our usual backup process on some production customer VMs. We've just started seeing a problem triggered by PBS that I believe is the interaction of the QEMU GA under Windows and MS...

Hi I understand that a PVE backup job without retention config inherits the config of the PVE storage that's being use for the backup. But what's the purpose of Prune and GC on the PBS target itself? Does that get applied if the job has no retention config and the PVE storage has no retention...

Hi I've just run up PBS 2.2-1 in our lab to test it out. Installation was onto an existing Debian 11 server. Everything is going pretty well except one issue I'm seeing is that it can't run smartctl on the drives. Trying to view the SMART values for a disk shows the attached (failed -...

Hi This may be a little off topic, but we can't use Proxmox if it doesn't integrate into a support portal / billing system. Is there any alternative to the whmcs module offered by Modules Garden? We've been trying to work through problems with their product for weeks now and their technical...

Hi I added a new node to our cluster. This node will run ceph but not run a monitor or manager or have any OSDs (it's just a 'client' so we can export ceph volumes to local storage). When installing ceph and adding it to the cluster it came up with a monitor. I stopped and destroyed the...

Hi I think this will work fine but thought I'd ask here before I buy another license to try it out. Can I have a node that is part of the ceph cluster but doesn't have any OSDs? I want to have a cluster node that is just a 'ceph client'. It would not run VMs. It'd just be used for rbd...

During some testing tonight sending backups to a CIFS volume, there was a problem with samba on the target server (it consumed over 80GB of RAM and SWAP which trashed the server). The unavailability of the CIFS server impacted on the backups that were running. I'd expected the backup tasks to...

Happy new year everybody. We've migrated some production VMs to our new Proxmox cluster. The only issue we are seeing is that our monitoring system is generating "host unreachable" alerts for the VMs each night during backups. We assumed it was related to pings getting dropped due to network...

Hi We're testing PVE and Ceph, trying out failure conditions. We're simulating a failed cluster node where we want to reinstall and bring up the existing ceph OSDs. There are a few forum threads and notes about trying to reinstall a node, but nothing clear or complete that we've been able to...

Hi Having a hook script on vzdump is great as it offers heaps of flexibility for post-processing the backup without modifying the code. Is there a way to have a hook script on qmrestore so we can pre-process prior to performing the restore? And a hook that's called when a backup is deleted...

Hi Our evaluation of Proxmox & Ceph is going well so we looked at how we'd migrate our existing customer base over to it. We're coming from a KVM based platform, using Virtio, so all looked good. The only issue is that the NIC is presented at a different PCI address so windows clients see it...

Hi I tried to bring up a test platform for PVE and Ceph today. It's a 4 node cluster with nvme drives for data storage. All was fine until I tried to create the OSDs. Via the web UI I picked the first data drive on a couple of the cluster nodes and selected them as OSDs. 8 hours later and...

Hi We'll be evaluating proxmox & ceph over the coming weeks and want to ensure we have a good starting point for benchmarking. We've been running a hyperconverged all-flash platform for about 7 years but it's not based on ceph. We're reading heaps trying to understand the best deployment...