backup server

Hello Proxmoxers! I am stuck. I have a production pve running multiple guest windows vms. All is great on most vm guests, however, one guest vm is running windows 10 with a specific server application and every time the scheduled backups attempt to run a snapshot on this guest vm id to my...

I have been testing both PBS and PVE backups to a NFS Synology share over the past 2 weeks. Noticed that backups using PBS are much larger saving to the NFS share then the PVE backups are. PVE format is saving as .zst and PBS are saved as .pbsvm with no option to change the backup format. Am I...

Hello, Proxmox community! I have a query that I've been unable to resolve for the past weeks. My deduplication ratio on Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) has significantly decreased. Previously, I know (though I can't access older logs to confirm) that the deduplication factor was above 12, but...

I have a cluster. one of them has plex on it. somehow something got corrupted or disk dying. i have weekly backups with proxmox backup server. I restored the backup from the backup server to another computer. Same specs as the original. it will no longer hardware transcode. plex shows the igpu i...

Good day to everyone! I have a bridge on my PVE for VMs with one 1gb/s network interface in it by which I have an access to this PVE (and VMs also). PBS was installed in the same network. Backup jobs worked fine with 1gb/s speed. After a while a did add 10gb cards in both PVE and PBS and also...

Aloha, I have setup Proxmox 8.1.3 with an Ubuntu 22.04 mail server VM (zimbra) that has a static WAN Ip at site 1 I want to setup a replicated Mail server at Site 2 with a different static wan ip, So that if Mail server 1 goes down, Mail server 2 picks up and starts. Problem - The Static Ip is...

Hello, Thank you Proxmox for your great products! I have a question. I have configured a daily backup, locally, to a folder. In addition, I installed a Proxmox Backup Server. Is it possible to do a single backup locally and send it to Proxmox Backup Server or is it necessary to do the backup...

I run a Proxmox cluster (3 nodes) latest version with all updates and upgrades done. And I also have a Proxmox Backup server also updated to latest version. Once in a while the backup server gets disconnected from pve. In server view under storage pbs loses its name and there is a question mark...

Hello all, I'm thinking about migrating to PBS for on-site & off-site backup. While the connection between headquarters and branch office is relatively (very) slow, the backups have always lagged behind for some days (using copy job in Veeam). The lagging is not a problem while is ok that i...

I wanna know how can I make backups of my vms in the aws s3, is that possible?

Hello, I have my PBS installed alongside Proxmox host. Backups been working great, but after a maintenance restart, the Chunks file seem to have dissapeared. The backups are/were stored on a ZFS-dataset, which is still there and the pool is reported as healthy, no problems at all. The dataset...

Hello all, I tried today to install Proxmox Backup server on a Dell PE R740. It was my first try at it. It stopped wit 'no network interface found'. The server has a QLogic FastLinQ 41264 with two SFP+ ports and two Ethernet 1 Gg ports. The problem has already been reported for such cards with...

Hello, I'm doing a fresh install on 2x10TB drives. I've reinstalled the machine for three times, the result is the same: Here's a full recording of the boot process: https://www.screencast.com/t/cbjJIB4p5nkC Any hints are highly appreciated! Later edit. A temporary fix was to add...

2020-08-25T10:21:57+02:00: WARN: warning: unable to access chunk xx, required by "/mnt/datastore/pub/ct/666/2020-08-21T02:33:47Z/root.pxar.didx" - update atime failed for chunk "/mnt/datastore/pub/.chunks/fa39/xxx" - ENOENT: No such file or directory This have been killing GC (which is fixed in...

There is a backup taking 12h+, which is okay. GC is daily. Now, GC isn't happy when trying to clean up files of an active backup: 2020-08-23T18:34:00+02:00: starting garbage collection on store pub 2020-08-23T18:34:00+02:00: task triggered by schedule 'daily' 2020-08-23T18:34:00+02:00: Start...