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    Migration von 4 HA Clustern mit je 4 Nodes auf 2 neue HA Cluster mit je 4 Nodes

    Hallo liebes Forum, wir sind hier mitten in der Planung unsere bestehende Infrastruktur mit proxmox kpl. neu aufzubauen. Ist Situation: 4 HA Cluster kvmpool1 bis 4 zzgl. ein Adminpool als Notfall System bestehend aus je 4 Nodes mit ZFS Ceph und Bacula als Backup System. Wir haben aus...
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    Advice on backup solution for home use, is PBS the right fit for me?

    Hi all, I'm relatively new to Proxmox, but an experienced Linux admin. I just built a small proxmox server for home. It's a 1TB ZFS mirror for root and most VM/CT images (I let the pve installer partition this) and a 4TB ZFS mirror for bulk data. I'm using that for files I share out using a...
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    backup win10 vm with pxe boot, how to boot without pxe

    Hi folks, i'm a bit of a noob with proxmox. i'm pulling my hair out with anything windows on proxmox.... i have a pxe boot win10 vm (he uses pxe boot in his setup, i do not) that a friend gave me and I was able to get it booted once. I dont remember my config. I have a brand new installation...
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    Umzug auf größere Disk

    Hi, ich plane meine Disk gegen eine größere zu tauschen. - Backup im Stop Mode auf NAS -- jede VM und auch jedn LCX Container - neue Disk einbauen und eine Defaultinstallation vom USB Stick aus - Proxmox hochfahren -- NFS mounten -- Restore anwerfen? Findet das System die Backups auf dem NFS...
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    Backup failure help and configure

    I have been a long time Unraid user and switching to Prox / Truenas. Truenas scale running as VM on Prox. Unrelated to this post. Kind of. Currently i am running all my vm's on Proxmox. Using the built in backup system to backup to Unraid. I added directory to proxmox through Gui...
  6. S

    Backups keeps erroring saying they are full when they aren't

    I have backups running to a Samba storage with 2 TB of space left and they were working fine until recently i get an out of space warning. Has anyone come accross this before INFO: 95% (95.0 GiB of 100.0 GiB) in 15m 20s, read: 244.7 MiB/s, write: 219.0 MiB/s INFO: 96% (96.2 GiB of 100.0...
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    Restoring backup from off-site PBS server.

    I'm planning to test restoring backup from off-site PBS server. I realised that I don't have a clue how to do this. We have a remote backup server but no obvious way to sync back an old backup. (One VM only.) Restoration from local PBS is simple but how does one do it if the host does not have...
  8. O

    Error 596 (not only) when communicating with pbs for backups

    I'm using at a server running Debian bullseye (PVE 7.4) and I have a PBS for backups. Everything was working from PVE until about one week ago (maybe I upgraded to pbs 3.3). I had a daily backup job for a pool. If I try to run the job manually from the gui, I get a "Broken pipe (596)" error...
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    Backup specific VM disk on specific schedule

    Hi, as i've stated in the subject, i was wondering after searching around the forum if any functionality that allows to backup single disks was implemented. As an example: VMID 100, 2 disks of 100GB each, disk 100-1, and disk 100-2 i wish to backup disk 100-1 every monday, disk 100-2 every...
  10. UdoB

    [TUTORIAL] Restore a file from a vzdump/vma backup on the CLI

    Preface While I am basically sure this is documented somewhere I was not able to find a compact guide. And I was never in a situation where this was necessary... yet. What I had found is https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VMA and the man-pages of the required commands, but no “walk-through”...
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    Updating Proxmox led to NVMe-Bug

    Hi all, I have a server running on Proxmox, which uses four NVMe-Drives in a ZFS-Raid-Z2. Since I have recently updated my Proxmox, since then I have the Issue that the NVMe-Drives periodically go down, and the VMs running on that datastore are crashing. Typically the Issue occurs during a...
  12. vooze

    Problems with Veeam

    Hi! For about 10 days it was working fine, then today after importing about 8 VMs from VMware ESXI (supported Proxmox function) now Veeam can't index the Proxmox host no matter what I try. I get this message: Successfully validated the connection Successfully updated the server Failed to...
  13. O

    Advice for PBS setup or Truenas SMB backup

    Hi all, I'm looking for some guidance. I have Proxmox 8.2.7 running with VMs and CTs. This is a Lenovo P520 Xeon W-2255 + 190 gb RAM On of the VMs is Truenas Scale, this is my main SMB storage with 2 pools. Pool 1 = 4 x 1.92 SSD Pool 2 = 4 x 960gb SSD Consists of 6 cores 64gb RAM and HBA...
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    [SOLVED] Backup task does not finish

    Hello there! I need help identifying the root of this problem. I have a proxmox cluster and one of the backup jobs just won't finish. The log that shows in the webUI under "Tasks" shows that it was doing it, but it has no end, it doesn't show any error. Where else can I see if there was an...
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    Backup from Proxmox Backup to Synology

    I have the following situation: - Cluster (3 servers) for production (Proxmox VE) - Development server (Proxmox VE) - Backup server (Proxmox Backup server) Every day, multiple backups are created from the production server to the backup server and from the development server to the backup...
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    Method to Copy PBS Backups Elsewhere?

    I'm in the process of redoing my proxmox cluster setup and PBS server. I don't want to lose the VM backed up in PBS as I'll need all that to restore to the new instances of PVE. Is it possible to connect a USB Drive or rclone or some other method to save what's in PBS' datastore and be able to...
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    Having issues with backups

    Hello, I am having a problem with the backup job of a LXC I have set up that is running docker. It is running on a NFS share on my TrueNAS and is set in HA. I have a 3 node cluster. When I try to backup the LXC I get an error that there is not enough space. ERROR: rsync: [receiver] write...
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    Does PBS allow backup while VMs are up?

    Hello, I would like to know if PBS can perform backups without manually stopping the VMs beforehand and without any bugs in the process. We currently have an NFS storage configuration with ".raw" files and our backup solution is PVE. I know that with PVE we can't bakup while up with our...
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    Backup the VMs of 3 PVE server into one Proxmox backup server

    Dear all, We have actually 3 PVE running on differents dedicated server. We want to install a backup server in order to backup the vms of these pve. Is this scenario is feasible ? Best regards,
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    Proxmox mount usb-ssd for proxmox backup

    Good morningI'm a bit stumped at the moment. I want to mount a USB SSD drive for backup in Proxmox. Where do I have the error?

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