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    backing up crashing after upgrade to pve 9

    Good day my daily backup task has started crashing after upgrading from pve8 to pve9 I backup my 4 vms to my truenas vm, that has worked for years now, but after the upgrade my truenas vm will crash during the file transfer and the backpu proces will become stuck forcing me to hard reset the...
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    Proxmox VE Backup über PBS - Namespace konfiguration

    Hallo Zusammen, ich habe ein Cluster und zusätzlich einen PBS, wenn ich nun im Datacenter einen Backup Job einrichten möchte, kann ich dort kein namespace für den PBS angeben. Ich möchte gerne verschiedene Namespaces für verschiedene VM's einrichten, da diese andere Prune Regeln auf dem PBS...
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    When I restore from a backup taken with Veeam from Proxmox, the Linux servers do not boot.

    When I restore from a backup taken with Veeam from Proxmox, the Linux servers do not boot. There is no such problem with Windows servers; they can be restored successfully. I am using PVE version 9.0.9. Below are two examples of servers, one with UEFI and one with BIOS. 1.vm- ubuntu 24.04...
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    Proxmox live restore + snapshot

    Hi everyone, I'm currently testing Live Restore on Proxmox for some production VMs that serve as mail and hosting servers (cPanel-based). During the restore process, I noticed something interesting and I'd love to hear your thoughts: Let’s say the system is restoring a VM, and meanwhile some...
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    [SOLVED] Backup Client --exclude "--include"??

    Hi all, i have the following problem. I want to backup some folders on my linux servers, fopr example: /etc/somepackage/* /srv/sometool/config/* /srv/sometool/data/* /opt/backups/* it is important to have the absolute paths preserved in the backup. the usage of .pxarexclude files is no...
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    VM Import aus VSphere über Veeam

    Moin, Ich Versuche aus Veeam ein Backup Einer VM in Proxmox Wiederherzustellen, die VM wurde im VSphere erstellt und über Veeam Gesichert. Nach die wiederherstellen über Veeam in Proxmox mit dem endsprechende Plugin kann ich den Windows Server nicht mehr korrekt starten. Die VM Startet Aber...
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    Proxmox - Auto snap

    Hi I've recently moved ZFS pools over to Proxmox, and this is causing me a few issues I have a tool zfs-auto-snapshot installed - This has been a real life saver in the past, as I have it snapping every 15 minutes etc.. I would very much like to keep it This does however present a few...
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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 ?