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    [TUTORIAL] backup a running proxmox zfs bare metal host and restore or clone to new hardware

    This is a proof of concept for backup and restore or clone a proxmox zfs bare metal host on a home lab system. This is not about VM backup. For production environments more tests are necessary. TL;TR backup running system to <destination> zfs snapshot -r rpool@export zfs send -R...
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    Backup leaves VMs unusable

    Hi, I setup two different daily baclup jobs: 00:30 Internal bkp to a CephFS pool (SAS disks) 01:30 External to a PBS instance Al nights, one or two of my Ubuntu 22.04 VMs (kubernetes nodes) go stale after the first bckup (I think). I find them stale (and have to Stop and Start, as the Guest...
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    backup läuft und läuft und läuft seit nunmehr 2 Wochen

    Hallo Gemeinde, ich wünsche euch ein frohes neues Jahr. So, zum Problem. Ich habe ein Proxmox-Cluster mit 4 NUCs am Laufen und es läuft sehr gut. Seit nunmehr 3 oder 4 Wochen habe ich festgestellt, dass ein Backup-Job mehrere Tage läuft. Daraufhin habe ich in Backup-Log nachgeschaut und für...
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    [SOLVED] LXC fails to backup if running

    I'm having a few issues when it comes to backing up a specific LXC, if it's running. All other LXCs and VMs backup fine, but this one is problematic. If I shut it down, it backs up fine - the failure is only when it is running. I'm backing up the PVE to a local USB drive and also a remote PBS...
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    secondary iface not being used?

    Hi guys. I've only set up a backup server which at installation time had just a single iface and when given a second iface, configured no routing, the server does not seem to want to use that iface. When trying to add such server to a PVE while pointing to that second-new IP, it fails with...
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    Frage zu Backups über WAN Strecke

    Hallo liebe Mitstreiter, ich habe mal eine Frage. Ich bin vor kurzem auf Proxmox PVE mit PBS umgestiegen. In meinem Heimnetz habe ich nun alle VMs auf einem lokalen PBS gesichert (ca. 1.5 TB) und diesen nun über eine DSL (40 MBit Upload) ins RZ gesichert. Dies hat logischerweise mehrere Tage...
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    Proxmox LXC backup - failing

    I've got one LXC that's failing backup whenever I run it. I've tried setting the vzdump.conf temp dirs to my mergerfs pool in the thoughts that it was my main drive filling. But the error is really not giving me any pointers. And even watching it I could not see any drives full. Here are...
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    backup unraid data to proxmox backup server

    Hey all, I have a bare metal unraid server running, with nextcloud in it. I would like to backup that data to my proxmox backup server, anyone who can tell me how to do this? Thx!
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    Nach dem Upgrade von 8.0 auf 8.1.3 VM CPU 100% nach dem Backup

    Hallo Leute, vorgestern habe ich mein Proxmox aktualisiert, und seitdem fällt mir auf, dass nach den Backup-Jobs die CPUs der VMs auf 100 % laufen. Hat jemand eine Idee, woran das liegen könnte? Vielen Dank im Voraus.
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    Huge backup file of VM

    Hello there. pveversion pve-manager/8.1.3/b46aac3b42da5d15 (running kernel: 6.2.16-10-pve) I've got a VM with a 96Gb disk. qm config 100 boot: order=ide2;sata0;net0 cores: 3 cpu: x86-64-v2-AES ide2: none,media=cdrom memory: 5120 meta: creation-qemu=8.0.2,ctime=1692278490 name: web net0...
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    Rebuild and recover from backups failed

    My proxmox install used two drives in a zfs pool as the storage system, but one drive was starting to fail. I bought a new, larger drive, backed up the VMs and copied /etc/pve. I swapped out the dying drive for the new one, and reinstalled proxmox. Then things went south. I added the second...
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    Slow proxmox backups via NFS

    I have a NFS server, normally it is fast (~1Gb/s). When I backup a vm it starts at ~800Mb/s and after a while, the speed drops considerably.
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    Backup script hook missing events?

    Dear all, im running pve 7.4 in a 6 node ceph cluster and active ha manager. We are currently running nightly backups. My goal is to stop specific services on a windows guest vm during the fs-freeze command which is called during snapshot backup to prevent database corruption. As we have the...
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    [SOLVED] Restore job unexpected error

    Hii everyone, since few weeks we are having issues while restoring backups from our Proxmox Backup Server Restore stops after few % of progess and it is always different everytime. The both servers are located in the internal netwerk and connected with a 100gb switch I attached the maybe...
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    Deutsch: Proxmox Backup funktioniert einmal und danach nicht mehr

    Guten Tag, Ich habe eingerichtet, das Proxmox Täglich ein Backup auf ein Nas in meinem Netzwerk macht. Das funktioniert einmal Reibungslos, dann kommt immer der Fehler: ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed - file '/mnt/pve/SichTaeglich/dump/vzdump-lxc-100-2023_12_12-13_36_41.tar.zst.notes' exists but...
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    PBS Backups über DSL Leitung ins Rechenzentrum

    Hallo, ich habe noch bis vor kurzem ESXI und Veeam Backup genutzt, da ich immer mehr Open Source einsetze möchte PVE / PBS interessante Features bieten migriere ich gerade darauf. Bisher hatte ich die Backups vom Host mit Veeam ins Rechenzentrum gemacht über eine herkömmlich DSL Leitung (100...
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    Backup to extrenal SSD also affects local (pve)

    Hi, I'm quite new to Proxmox but has everythin up and running, Home Assistant, Windows, and a LXC container with InfluxDB. Every time I run a scheduled backup (or manual), choosing only to backup to my external SSD, the internal storage on local.pve also decreases. There are no backups...
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    Proxmox Backup Server restored. Unable to restore old backups

    Hello everyone, I am having difficulty restoring my backups.Unfortunately, the error message isn't helping either: recovering backed-up configuration from 'restooooooore:backup/ct/102/2023-11-26T18:49:00Z' Formatting '/var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-0.raw', fmt=raw size=8589934592...
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    Proxmox Manual Backup Storage shortage Issue

    Hello, I am using Proxmox virtual environment (version: 7.2-3 & 7.1-7) for all of my VM. Everything was going well. All of my VMs are running from "local-lvm". I use the Proxmox VE GUI to manually take VM backups every week. Recently, I have been unable to take a backup due to an issue with the...
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    Can someone explain backup schedule retention to me?

    My schedule is like this: sat 09:00 Keep weekly 4 Keep monthly 1 Yearly 1 I just checked today and my monthly backup from 09-30 got deleted which was the last monthly backup from September. I just figured it out that Keep monthly should be 12 and not 1. So the new schedule is: sat 09:00 Keep...