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    Vinchin Support for Proxmox VE

    Hello Proxmox VE community friends! I’m part of the team behind Vinchin. Today, I would like to introduce Vinchin Backup & Recovery, an enterprise-grade data protection solution focused on virtualized environments. We deeply support Proxmox VE and aim to provide PVE users with stronger data...
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    NFS configuraton on PBS is not backing up

    I have a pbs server using a nfs share Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 953M 0 953M 0% /dev tmpfs 197M 756K 197M 1% /run /dev/mapper/pbs-root 29G 2.4G 26G 9% / tmpfs 985M 0...
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    [SOLVED] How to recover from boot drive failure

    Hello, I am thinking about installing proxmox VE on a server with a small boot SSD for the OS itself and a nvme ZFS mirror for the VMs. What I would like to ask about is how I can restore the server in case of a boot drive failure. I can probably import the ZFS pool but will the VMs then just...
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    Backup errors using rclone to MS Onedrive

    Hello, trying to sync VM backup files to MS OneDrive through rclone, but errors. See log below. Additional info: 1) rclone seems to be properly configured, creating folders into /mnt area immediately sync them to oneDrive 2) backups to another cloud storage (Google Drive) through another rclone...
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    Proxmox Host Backup

    Hello together, the proxmox-backup-client is also able to backup a standalone host. In our case we decided to move physical host backups to PBS. To make backup easier I wrote a backup script which collect all mount points and creates a backup for each. This script can be triggered by cron or...
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    PBS in a VM on PVE: Suspending/stopping it when not used

    I have PBS running in a VM on PVE. Backup runs once a day during night. Normally there's not mucht to do as not much has changed and dedup does a good job. So PBS returns after 15 to 30 mins. Altough it does not consume much CPU and RAM during the rest of the day, I still wonder if it makes...
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    Sanity check for remote ZFS backup strategy

    I'm drawing up plans for remote backups of a few ProxMox servers, non-cluster single machines in different locations. After reading through the forum, AI tools and other sources, it seems like using ZFS send/receive to a remote server also running ZFS ( rsync.net or my own server) would be the...
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    PBS Errors? Backup not successful

    I have a lab setup at home. Have a little n100 PC doing PBS backups of a PVE server and everything has been going great and just starting recently getting this error. Ive reviewed things and chatgpt said do a few things to check for free space and space isn't an issue but the backup continues to...
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    [SOLVED] Backup Fleecing on pool-based backup job

    Hi, We currently have a Proxmox cluster with 10 nodes and a PBS. Sometimes the VMs hang / run unperformant during the backup, so I have read up on fleecing. Each node now has a local SSD, mounted as LVM-thin, in /etc/vzdump.conf I have activated fleecing and set the local storage. A manuel...
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    Backup not possible

    Hello everyone. I hope you are doing well. I'm trying to backup a VM so I can restore it on a new Proxmox server, however after waiting an hour to copy, after 100% I got the following error: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 105 --remove 0 --storage NAS --mode stop --notes-template...
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    keep last X vs hourly vs xxx

    Hello. I'm trying to understand a sync process that I have and the amt of the data storage. Here's my environment. production - 2 servers, pve and pve/pbr dr site - single pve/pbr The production server does backups every 2 hours and a sync job replicates it over to the pve/pbr server on the...
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    ERROR: interrupted by signal

    Good afternoon, recently we have started to observe the presence of the error ERROR: interrupted by signal, when performing a backup using Proxmox Backup Server, this problem does not occur for all virtual machines, but for certain ones, these machines are not connected to each other. Moreover...
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    Proxmox Cluster oder Backup Server oder andere Lösung

    Hallo Zusammen, ich möchte meine Virtualisierungsumgebung neu aufsetzen. Außerdem möchte alle Daten von der Synology auf eine Nextcloud transferieren. Ich habe zwei identische Hosts. Intel Core i5 6 Core, 12 logische CPU 128GB Ram Kingston 512GB NVMe Kingston KC3000 4TB Kingston SSD Kingston...
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    Cannot backup VMs due the remaining overlay files

    Hi, after backup, some temporary overlay files keep on the filesystem and backups cannot be run again.
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    Persistent Backup Problems on Consumer Hardware

    Hello everyone, I'm reaching out to you, because I can't resolve my backup issues for a few months now. Most of the time my backups are running fine and are working, but I keep getting hickups. First my Setup: - PVE: HP ProDesk 400 G9 i5-12500T, 64GB DDR4, NVME SSD as local datastore with lvm...
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    Moint Point eines LXC mit in die Sicherung aufnehmen

    Ich habe bei meinem LXC einen Mount Point mp0. Darauf liegen rund 200 GB an Daten, und es werden mehr. Wenn ich den LXC nun sichern lasse, wird nur das Root-Disk gesichert. Ich erwarte aber ein Backup, was deutlich größer ist als die jetzigen 1,02 GB. Auf dem LXC läuft NextcloudPi. Das...
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    Backing up external disk attached to VM as a directory

    I was trying to create an Ansible automation to recreate my media server VM on proxmox. In order to so, I was attaching the external hard disk, mounted on /mnt/pve/diskname, as a disk to this new vm. But the problem is, I don’t get the partitions that I was using on this hard disk. There wasn’t...
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    [SOLVED] dirty-bitmap status

    Hi all, We have a bunch of VMs that we back up twice a day, to 2 different destinations: once to PBS and once to NFS. I had expected the dirty-bitmap to become invalid because of the alternating backup destinations, but apparently, that's not an issue because one uses vzdump and the other PBS...
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    error 133 failed backup - unreliable backups?

    I am running into the restoration issue that I have not seen a full fix for except manual restoration everytime. no lock found trying to remove 'create' lock error before or during data restore, some or all disks were not completely restored. VM 102 state is NOT cleaned up. TASK ERROR: command...
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    [SOLVED] LXC backup failed "ERROR: rsync: [sender] readlink_stat....failed: Bad message (74)

    Hello & greetings. as a "newbee" in Unix / Linux system and also Proxmox I'm looking for some help please... I have HomeAssistant (VM), EMQX and Zigbee2MQTT as LXC still running fine on my Proxmox - without any issues or problems. Since a couple of days I receive a error: "bad message (74)...