backup and restore

Some background information: I have 1 server connecting 4 Proxmox Nodes. They were all on the 5.0 version, but I wanted to upgrade them to 6.1. I upgraded 1 node to 6.1 and I want to backup VMs from the other 3 nodes on the 5.0 version into the 6.0 version. I also do not have any internet...

I have a proxmox PVE running and want to back it up and install it on the same hardware but with a clean proxmox installation. I am planning on whipping everything of the current hardware. But I don’t want to lose my VM’s. The backup option on my VM’s doesn’t work because it can’t find the...

A few days ago I posted a question regarding my hard drives layout for Proxmox, and now that's pretty much gone out the window. I'm picking up an older server today, so again, will be installing Proxmox (I think I've spend more time installing/setting up machines, than actually letting them do...

Hey! I backed up my old Proxmox server with 120GB SSD using https://github.com/DerDanilo/proxmox-stuff/blob/master/README.md of this script and restore it on the new Proxmox server with SSD at 500 GB. Everything works fine except I can use only 100Gb of my 500GB SSD, but I don't know how to use...

Hello Community! sorry in advance for this somewhat silly question but i cannot find the information i need and decided to ask here. I just recently found the PBS and i was wondering when exactly do i need to implement the backup client? Do i need to install the client for every server i want...

I'm getting trouble when recovered the backup to new server due to the old windows server vm setup has 1 addition drive - drive d which locate in the directory create in Proxmox server VM101 = Windows Server HDD = Volume 1 = drive C: 500 GB ===> in LVM Volume 2 = Drive D: 3 TB ====> in...

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...