backup

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...

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...

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...

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)...

Hi, I have two Proxmox hosts running in a homeblab setting. I know that with Proxmox Backup Server you can enable encryption, but Proxmox VE doesn't come with encryption out of the box. My goal is to do an encrypted offsite backup in case something catastrophic happens (like fire), preferably...

For VM performance and backup optimization I use separate disks for temporary data like: - swap - logs - system temp-folders - temporary DBs (like tmpdb in MSSQL) - local backups, software packages and many other not-critical stuff Separate disks allow 4 important things: 1) Efficient...

I have a proxmox backup server but i want to backup my backup server. (in case something happens with the backup server). I have enough iCloud storage and would like to backup the proxmox backup vm's (all of it with incremental backups) to iCloud. Will something like this be possible?

Hi Team, I have one NVMe Drive where all the VM disks are saved. I observed the SMART test showed FAILED for NVMe and i started to experience VM Crashing. So to replace the drive, i thought i will backup the VM. but i am unable to back it. i get the below Error. ERROR: job failed with err -61...

Hello, Recently started using Proxmox VE and want to backup now using PBS. It seems like the regular use case for PBS is for backing up your containers/vms to a remote PBS. I have a small home setup which one server. Proxmox is running PBS in a VM. I have my content such as photos, videos...

Hello, I have a backup job running every day backing up my VMs using snapshot mode. Everything is running ok but sometimes one specific VM freezes (I have 4 VMs running but it happens only with one of them). At the exact time of the backup the VM stop responding (even from the console) and I can...

only 1/4 is actually occupied, everything worked fine before and they weighed several times less if you look inside the VM, almost as much is occupied as before the problem appeared Disk type: qcow2, discard enabled

Hallo, die Frage wurde bereits hier schon mal gestellt https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/tape-verification.138552/ und auch im Bugzilla eine entsprechende Anfrage gestellt https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5144 Ich würde gerne wissen, ob es hierzu schon etwas Neues gibt. Oder ist...

hi there im just starting out with my 1st production proxmox instance and id like to ask for your counsel hardware: i have one old server that i need secured and easy to backup and restore, i also have a newer workstation with ample hd space where i want my backups to go, optionally i want my...

Hi All, I am very new to Proxmox but I have a question. I could not really find recommendations on the internet. As Proxmox self can really benifit from Ceph storage due to all its advantages I could not see this for the backup server. The backup server is a standalone host (in our case) and...

We are Plan using PBS and considering to adjust our backup retention policy to balance long-term restore capability with efficient storage usage. Daily Backup Job (Incremental) Schedule: Daily Compression: ZSTD Retention: Keep-Daily = 90 days Weekly Backup Job (Full) Schedule: Every...

Hi I would just like to get some suggestions in what way I should go.. Today I have my main server as a Proxmox host, running a few VMs (hass, unifi, minecraft-server ect.). And I have a few drives (EXT4) just mounted as NFS-share as storage on my home network, mainly for raw data from drone...

Hey everyone, I’m running a Proxmox 8.3.4 server with both LXC containers and VMs. I also have a second system where I want to restore these backups as new VMs to create a duplicate of the original setup. However, most of the backup restores fail with the following message: restore vma archive...

Hi everyone, I’m wondering if there are specific reasons why the following features are not implemented in Proxmox. Maybe there are considerations or limitations that I haven't thought of, and I'd appreciate any insights from the community or developers. SSHFS as a storage type under...

Hi all - new to Proxmox. I have single VM configured and running properly. I have mounted some SMB storage that i want to use for backups. I can see the storage in the UI and in /etc/pve/storate.cfg, but it does not show up in the Storage dropdown for the Backup Job. I think that I'm missing...

I have a Proxmox VE server with one VM on it. And I consider to setup a backup job to PBS every hour. But sometimes happen that the backup job is not finnished and a new backup job waits for end of previous backup and when it stops the new backup start immediately and then another backup job is...