backup

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We're having a problem with the VM freezing when the backup process is running. The VM in question is Windows Server 2016 with IIS. We have more than 500 VMs running, with different types of OS, and none of them have this symptom. Below is the VM configuration and PVE host version agent: 1...

Hello together, I#m searching for a solution to move my local PVE Backups to PBS. Is that possible in any way? I did not found a solution in the PVE or PBS Docs. Any Ideas are welcome. Best regards 0zw00d

When proxmox makes a backup, it takes more resources and the website on VM goes down of resource lack. I have proxmox on the host and backups are going to proxmox backup server. Any suggestions? regards

Hi all, Can I offload proxmox backup files to another site as a second or thierd backup location? Say we do a local backup on a local storage on the proxmox server and i want to offload this to another storage system every weekend. How would i go about it? And how would i use this backup for...

I have a small patch for PVE (adds a 10 minute timeout to booting VMs during backup), which I have been manually applying and re-applying after each PVE update. The re-applying is getting a bit tedious, so I was wondering if anyone might have suggestions on how to save this patch for...

I'm running some backups routines at the same time, but sometimes they don't run and show the message "INFO: trying to get global lock - waiting...", is there a problem running mutiple backups at the same time ? Can more than one vzdump process run at the same time ? Note: I'm using the latest...

I found a problem with copying the container to proxmox backup server. pve 6.4-8, Backup Server 1.1-12. As I understand it, due to old containers, upgrading to the latest versions can make containers non-working. Initially it was (log) 202: 2023-11-09 18:16:00 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 202...

My linux VMs back up fine, but the windows ones do not. I was using zstd and the backups kept freezing (I couldn't stop the process without restarting the node), so I am trying gzip now. This time, the process at least ends without hanging, but there are still errors on the windows VMs. I'm...

While currently not supported I have patched the perl module for LXC. /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC.vm You may apply the patch via patch /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC.pm LXC.pm.patch This is the content of LXC.pm.patch: --- /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC.pm 2023-06-24 15:08:37.000000000 +0200 +++...

Good morning, dear Proxmox community. I am facing a peculiar problem that I cannot identify. First, let me share a few facts: - I operate four servers in a cluster with CEPH and 16 NVMe OSDs. - I use NFS as backup storage. - All VMs from the four servers are backed up to the NFS storage. - Each...