backup and restore

Hi! Why VM CPU usage(tab "Summary") increase during backup create (to PBS)? It's normal? backup mode: snapshot Guest agent not used guest: windows 2016 server pveversion: proxmox-ve: 6.4-1 (running kernel: 5.4.106-1-pve) pve-manager: 6.4-6 (running version: 6.4-6/be2fa32c) pve-kernel-5.4...

Greetings, I'm not running that much behind updates on my production PVE 6.3-6, but there is quite alot of line of updates available. Main concern is, that something will break with update to 6.4. How can I backup everything in case of shit and fan scenario? Maybe how can I create image of...

Hello dears i have get backup from vm ("vzdump 384286 --prune-backups keep-last=0 --mode snapshot --storage pbs-local") on pbs server. now i want restore this backup as new vm not 384286, can i do this? thanks

Hi, We have a server with PBS Backup Server 1.1-1, and a centos server with a backup client installed ./proxmox-backup/target/release/proxmox-backup-client version client version: 1.0.11 Can anyone advise how we can integrate these two servers? we need to back up the client VM to PBS server...

Hallo zusammen, ich bin relativ neu im Proxmox / Linux Umfeld und bitte deshalb um Nachsicht. Ich habe vermutlich ein Problem mit einer überprovisionierten VM, bzw. einem ZFS Pool und bräuchte hier dringend Hilfe. Festgestellt habe ich es beim Restore eines Backups der VM. Hier erhalte ich beim...

Hello, i´m experiencing some trouble with my fresh Proxmox Installation. Short story: Backupped all the VMs from the Host, reinstalled the Host with the latest 6.3 Version, restored all the VMs, everything was working fine and straight forward. Now i checked my scheduled backups and they are...

Hello, I'm looking for some resources or documentation how to implement an incremental VM backup using 3-party backup solution in the same way or similar as PBS do. Thanks in advance. Radek

I'm experiencing a repeatable failure when trying to backup a VM Template. I'm using Proxmox v6.3-3, latest updates applied this morning. I'm performing these steps: Create a VM, any VM OS, any VM configuration (in my case: Win2019, OMVF/UEFI). Backup the VM (succeeds 100% of the time)...

Hello there, We are trying to connect our PBS to a single proxmox node. We followed the following manual: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/pve-integration.html When entering the following command on the proxmox node: pvesm add pbs backups --server 10.*.*.*8 --datastore backups --username...

Hi everybody, i have a Question and i dont found any Thread or post that helps me with it. i have a Proxmox Server running on my HP Server with 2 HDDs. The first one is only for the Proxmox OS and the second one is for my VMs and images. My HDD with the Proxmox OS is broken and i set up a new...

Dear Colleagues. Incremental backups. You have a full backup and then the incremental backups. An incremental backup builds on the previous backup. Otherwise they would be differential backups. So far I am on the right track? Now the backup server should delete old backups automatically. But...

I am unable to restore VMs that have cloud-init drives in 6.3-2. These are being backed up to a CIFS share, and restored to an NFS share. Log entry when I try this: restore vma archive: zstd -q -d -c /mnt/pve/backups/dump/vzdump-qemu-1002-2020_12_04-08_20_28.vma.zst | vma extract -v -r...

I have a single machine with proxmox on ZFS with a single pool containing a three-disk mirror. Backups aside, I would like to implement a simple disaster recovery strategy. The idea is to save the partition scheme of the disks on removeble media, and then dump the pool to LTO tape, so to be able...

Hi, I am trying to import vms from old pve installation with little success. Can anybody help with please? root@vhost3:~# pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 6.2-1 (running kernel: 5.4.34-1-pve) pve-manager: 6.2-4 (running version: 6.2-4/9824574a) pve-kernel-5.4: 6.2-1 pve-kernel-helper: 6.2-1...

Hi, I am encountering some problems making backups on many servers running ZFS. The PVE cluster is made of 4 nodes, every node have a ZFS mirror pool on 2 NVMe SSD drives and a full backup is made once per week at 00:30 on different days per each node: Every time a backup is started I see...

I encountered an error restoring an unprivileged LXC container with the nesting=1,keyctl=1 options set (for use with Docker). Here's the relevant part of the log: extracting archive '/tank0/enc/proxmox/dump/vzdump-lxc-105-2020_07_09-20_34_11.tar.zst' tar...

Due to some network and performance issues, I needed to migrate one of my PMG servers. I did the new installation, and everything went well. I did the backup backup on the new server, and it is working. However, I have the impression that he is no longer identifying the rules of "Who...

Ao tentar restaurar um backup, informe este erro. lzop: Ioctl inadequado para dispositivo: <stdin> vma: falha na restauração - extensão vma curta (2595328 < 3060224) /bin/bash: linha 1: 14202 Feito cstream -t 83886080 -- /mnt/pve/BackupNode2/dump/vzdump-qemu-120-2020_05_30-20_00_01.vma.lzo...

Hi, First of all, please excuse me if this has been brought up before. But I find this a quite good feature that exist in ESXi, HyperV, AHV and so on. Let me just present the usecase for it: I have a virtual machine that some users is working against. One of the users accidentally deletes alot...