backup

  1. jsterr

    Is a vzdump backupjob on a slow nfs-server able to trigger watchdog

    Hello Proxmox Forum, Is a slow vzdump backupjob able to trigger watchdog? I had some unknown reboot today at 07:38 on a customers system: - 07:35:34 vzdump-Start (Ziel: langsames NFS) - 07:38:24 pve-ha-crm: loop took too long (33s) - 07:38:36 pve-ha-lrm: loop took too long (79s) + cfs-lock...
  2. P

    Kein Backup möglich wenn eine von zwei Nodes Offline ist

    Hallo, Ich habe Proxmox VE 9.1.1 auf meinem mini PC laufen. Auf dem Gerät läuft ein Container der jeden Tag um 23 uhr ein Backup fahren soll. Das ist aber die letzten Tage nicht passiert also wollte ich das ganze mal Manuel anstoßen um zu prüfen da los ist. Dabei hab ich folgende Fehlermeldung...
  3. R

    Officially Supported Datastore Backing Storage List

    Hello Everyone, apart from the S3 object storage and internal storage media (with ext4/xfs or ZFS) mentioned in the PBS documentation, what types of storage are supported as backing storage for PBS datastores? Specifically, I am referring to network storage such as a Synology NAS...
  4. S

    Proxmox Cluster Web GUI Fehler Permission denied (publickey,password)

    Hallo Zusammen, seit 3 Tagen läuft mein Proxmox Cluster mehr oder weniger. Gestern hatte ich das altbekannte Intel e1000 Problem. Das konnte behoben werden. Gestern Abend war mir schon aufgefallen, dass es beim PBS Backup nicht VMs richtig gesichert hat und scheint eine Migration während des...
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    Update 8.4 to 9.0 or 9.1?

    Hello, is it easily possible to upgrade our existing 8.4 installation to a specific 9.x version? Our Backupvendor only fully supports 9.0, says "basic functionality" is offered with 9.1 and basically does not support 9.2 right now. Since the development has been slow on the Backup side, my...
  6. UdoB

    [TUTORIAL] FabU: What’s in a snapshot?

    My only point here is that the term “snapshot” has different meanings, heavily depending on the contextual point-of-view: PVE VM snapshot This is the native Proxmox function. It freezes the current status of a VM. This state can be “unfrozen” later to restore this very status via “rollback”...
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    Hypervisor node freezes completely during backup

    Our team has a 3 nodes Proxmox cluster. Every night we backup all of the VMs. Every 2-3 days the nightly backup completely freezes one of the nodes. Sometimes the freezing can be stopped by stopping the backup job from another node, but complete freezing is the usual, in that case the Backup...
  8. H

    [Proxmox Backup] Backups fail to lock file

    Hello, I have a large proxmox cluster but with only three nodes (three physical hosts that run hundreds of VMs). I have a PBS and I would really love to take backups of ALL my VMs nightly. Unfortunately, I can only run the backups in a relatively short period of time (from 23:00 to 06:00) so...
  9. C

    Proxmox 8.4 and Veeam Backup issue while the VM is offline

    We recently converted from VMware and are wondering if anyone else here is having issues backing up offline VMs with Veeam BR? Do you have a recommendation for a workaround other than powering those VMs manually during the backup schedule? When the VM is offline, we are seeing nothing...
  10. S

    Plötzlich der Fehler error: write_data upload error: pipelined request failed: detected chunk with wrong digest

    Hy zusammen. Seit ca. 2 Wochen kann ich kein Backup mehr auf den Proxmox Backup Server machen, es schlägt immer wieder fehl mit der Meldung: ERROR: backup write data failed: command error: write_data upload error: pipelined request failed: detected chunk with wrong digest PBS: Version 4.1.10...
  11. J

    VM freezes during snapshot/backup on NFS (Proxmox 9, no errors in logs)

    I have a Proxmox VE 9.1 production environment with 2 nodes and 1 qdevice (for quorum) using shared NFS storage. During snapshot or backup operations, VMs (especially Windows) become completely unresponsive: VM freezes completely Loses network connectivity (no ping) Console is frozen VM...
  12. M

    Freeze/thaw VM on Backup

    Hi all, I'm curious how you handle the 'Freeze/thaw guest filesystems on backup for consistency' option in Qemu Agent. Do you generally keep it enabled by default? In which scenarios do you explicitly disable it (e.g. high I/O VMs or databases)? Have you had any issues with fsfreeze (timeouts...
  13. B

    proxmox-backup-client catalog shell + restore-selected is extremely slow for tiny file restores, while web UI download is fast

    I’m seeing extremely poor performance when restoring files from a pxar archive with proxmox-backup-client catalog shell and restore-selected. Environment Client package: proxmox-backup-client 4.1.5-1 Installed from: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client trixie/main Backup server...
  14. S

    Quadstor VTL (extended with deduplication) with Proxmox Backup Server - Experiences?

    Hello Proxmox Community, I'm currently running a virtual tape library (Quadstor VTL, extended with deduplication) in my homelab, primarily for personal use with Bacula. I'm now looking into expanding my backup solution, or potentially migrating, to Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). I'm aware that...
  15. S

    An easy one, for a change! [Solved]

    Hello again helpful community. Today I have a rather easy question for you all! I am trying to restore a VM on a newly installed instance of PVE 9.1.7, however before I can restore it I need to copy over the backup files (45GB). The problem is that ProxMox is installed on a 120GB SSD, leaving...
  16. B

    VM Fails to backup and job gets stuck

    Hey folks, I have a strange problem. I have one VM in my cluster that just won't backup. No issues backing up other VMs. This is on a three node 9.1.6 cluster that is current on all updates. The VM is a linux machine with a 256GB root disk. QCOW2 format. VMs are stored on an NFS mount from a...
  17. M

    [SOLVED] Problems with proxmox-backup-client command and crontab

    Hi, currently I'm trying to run the backups via crontab. I'll keep the examples as small as possible, therefore I explain my problem using the proxmox-backup-client list command. When I run the command in the CLI directly (logged in as root on my Proxmox server), everything is working as...
  18. B

    Backup Script für configs & rpool zfs snapshot

    Hallo, hier ein Python-Skript um die Konfigurationsdateien und optional auch einen ZFS-Snapshot des rpool separat zu sichern. Vielleicht ist es ja für den einen oder anderen hilfreich oder dient als Inspiration. Features : Pull-basierte Sicherung von Proxmox-VE-Konfigurationsdateien...
  19. A

    Einfachster Weg das root zfs zu übertragen?

    Hallo! Ich habe nun endlich etwas Zeit die INTEL SSDs einzusetzen. Die beiden sind jedoch kleiner als die drei Crucials, die aktuell in meinem System laufen. Wenn ich das jetzt nicht durcheinander bringe, dann laufen meine 3x 1TB Crucials als RAID-Z1 und ich möchte die beiden INTELs als RAID-Z0...
  20. W

    How to gracefully handle cert renewal?

    I use a Let' s Encrypt cert on both my PVE and PBS servers. This morning I woke up to a bunch of email alerts of failed backups and datastore connection failures. After some messing about I found that the cert on my PBS server had renewed so the fingerprints no longer matched. Was an easy fix...