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    [SOLVED] Restore of container backup from ZFS to LVM on a different server fails : because of compression in ZFS.

    Hi there, I have two Proxmox VE 8 servers called proxmox1 and proxmox3. The backups of proxmox1 are validated every night (copy to Debian desktop, decompress, start and ping). Proxmox3 is an old Dell Precision T1650 meant to serve as backup in case proxmox1 fails. It has a 512MB NvMe on a...
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    Understand backup problem

    Greetings I have a problem which is crippling me for a while... A CT is being backed up daily to PBS ; it's about 300G in total and about 600M changes daily. The backup process takes more than 14 hours, which data throughput measured by iftop at about 14kbps. Other CTs and VMs on the same...
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    Poor-man DRP with two nodes

    Hi, I have a node 1 that I want to back up in DRP every day (not enough performance/money for BCP) I created a Node 2 with the idea that if Node 1 fails, I manually "switch" to Node 2 (just changing DNS)... I first thought about a PBS, but from what I see, it requires at least, 3 machines...
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    Backup Schedule Not Working Since 2025

    As the title states my backups in the Datacentre have not been running since the start of this year. I'm on Proxmox 8.3.2 there is plenty of room left on hdd and according to the Next Run tab it should be happening but nothing shows up in the tasks saying it starting backup and I have emails set...
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    After backup of vm it is not able to completely up.

    Hello Team, After backup of vm it is not able to completely up. it,s sometime stuck, and services not running after up. how can we fix it,
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    Host Freezes Once a Week

    Hi all, about once a week or so my host will freeze up where all VMs have ?? over them, webconfig still somewhat works. A couple of my VMs are still operational, but not fully. It gets in a very weird limbo state that can only be solved by force rebooting on the system, rebooting via webconfig...
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    Can't start backup process on PBS

    Hi, Im trying to configure PBS for my PVE. I added the Datastore and connected it to PVE. But here comes the problem everytime i want to start the backup proces i get this error: NFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 101 --mode snapshot --storage PBS --node pve --remove 0 --notes-template...
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    Backup help/questions

    Hey all! Long time "Googler", first time poster. So I'm sure there are tons of threads I'm sure. However, let me tell you the story as short as I can. I had the scare of my life when my sas drive (that came with the used hardware I bought a couple years back) died last night. Now, I'm not 100%...
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    Backup hangs on first VM and cannot be stopped/killed

    Hi folks, My cluster is a set of 4 HP 260 G1s (i3-4030U, 16GB, 240GB boot SSD) connected to a TrueNAS Scale system providing shared iSCSI LUNs on both SSDs and HDDs for VHD storage. Originally I had each node backing up to a separate NAS via NFS. I've now removed that NAS as it was giving me...
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    CR: ignore errors from cd-rom storage for backups

    Hello. I think backup process should completely ignore state of cd-rom drive. Today one backup fails because of: 709: 2024-07-21 01:50:12 INFO: creating Proxmox Backup Server archive 'vm/709/2024-07-20T23:50:12Z' 709: 2024-07-21 01:50:12 INFO: starting kvm to execute backup task 709: 2024-07-21...
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    new datastore: backup connect failed: command error: Permission denied (os error 13)

    I had two original data stores: /mnt/datastore/2023/ and /mnt/datastore/disk/ I wanted to remove 'disk' and create a new data store with some of the backups from '2023' I ran the following: 1. mkdir /mnt/datastore/backup/{vm, ct} 2. cp /mnt/datastore/2023/vm/<vmids to keep>...
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    Restored a VM from Backup and it has no hard disk

    Recently i had restored a VM from a backup, id restores without hard disk, in addition to this when i try to restore it again it gives the following error "TASK ERROR: command 'set -o pipefail && zstd -q -d -c /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2024_03_17-14_41_03.vma.zst | vma extract -v -r...
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    VMs FS error after backup destination storage is full

    Can it be so - NFS backup storage became full and VMs that was in this backup become with RO root partitions ?
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    backup migrating

    Hello I m using proxmox cluster with 3 servers in it, and i want to move backups between storages in different servers but in the same cluster. Maybe someone knows how to backup vm to another server storage. I also do not use proxmox backup server
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    Backup job failed with err -125 - Operation canceled

    Hi Everyone, I am in the process of migrating the VMs from one proxmox server to another so I can update the proxmox to 8.1. I am creating the backups of VM, then send the backup to the other proxmox server and then restore that VM. The virtual machines are running critical micro-services due...
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    Proxmox Backup

    Hello , I Hope You are well , This Is the second time i make a copy, and This error appears in the same status 86% #uname -r 4.13.13-2-pve
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    Raid on a directory

    So I'm trying to setup a backup solution for my server by using two 2tb hard drives and I want to use raid on them so that its mirrored onto each other. I can create a ZFS drive on them but I'm unable to assign them to be used for the directory, Is there a way to use the drives as storage for...
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    Backup failing.

    Hi guys, I keep getting backup fail on all of my containers/vms. INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 597 --node auriga --storage ftp-newton --remove 0 --compress zstd --mode snapshot --notes-template '{{guestname}}' --notification-mode auto INFO: filesystem type on dumpdir is 'cifs' -using...