backup

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    Backup failing on a LXC container

    Hello, I am wondering if someone can help me determine why a backup is failing on an LXC container. Here is the log from the backup: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 201 --notes-template '{{guestname}}' --node pmx --remove 0 --storage pmx-b --mode snapshot INFO: % Total % Received %...
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    How to include external USB drive in backup of VM

    Hi All, I've just started with Proxmox and have been making good progress, but have ran into an problem. I currently have a cluster with 2 x PVE and 1 x PBS. I have a VM running NextCloud, using an external USB drive as the Data store. I can't see any way to include the USB drive in the backup...
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    Create SMB share on datapool

    Hi, I'm new to proxmox backup server and wanted to know if its possible to create a simple SMB share for virtual machines on the same network that could be used for e.g. MySQL dumps/backups. I noticed that samba is already preinstalled and I could just create a share under /mnt/datastore/... but...
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    Backup failure for containers

    INFO: Starting Backup of VM 100 (lxc) INFO: Backup started at 2023-10-01 06:00:01 INFO: status = running INFO: CT Name: unifi-controller INFO: including mount point rootfs ('/') in backup INFO: backup mode: snapshot INFO: ionice priority: 7 INFO: create storage snapshot 'vzdump' Logical volume...
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    Backup Slow Listings

    So I have (6) 20TB HDDs for backup (Per Storage container) for the size of data I need to back up. When I first set up the backup server and started the backups, all fast listing the backups. Now I prune and garbage collect without issues. I keep up to 10 backups for 60+ VMs. Once I get to 10...
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    Backup Verschlüsseln

    Hallo Ich möchte gerne wissen, was genau geschieht, wenn ich Backups verschlüssle. Welche Option ist die Beste und was muss ich genau achten bei einem Restore, wenn die Backups verschlüsselt sind. Danke im Voraus.
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    [SOLVED] Backups filling local drive when USB drive /mnt/backups disconnects

    Hello, Proxmox is installed on a 512 gb NVME. I have a physical USB 250gb drive /mnt/backups connected to my proxmox computer running scheduled backups of my LXCs. Every once in a while it the backup drive will mysteriously disconnect itself. When that happens, I see some kind of 100 gb local...
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    Not to run any VM until the backup job is completed

    I have 2 VMs scheduled for a backup job in Stop Mode and I want not to run any of them while the backup job is still running. I think I have to play around the scripts, but cannot find a good way to start.
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    Direct connect proxmox VM to backup serwer

    Hello i need help with connect two serwers VM and backup with one jr45 cable. Two serwer have 1 cable for internet/with router and one connected direct to eatch other. Now how to set up these to use direct cable as backup track?
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    Backup fails - detected chunk with wrong digest

    Hello, i have following setup: Proxmox Server with some VMs (64GB ECC UDIMM RAM, 8 Core CPU, ZFS Storage Pool) (own dedicated server in datacenter) Proxmox Backup Server (64GB RAM, ZFS Storage Pool) (rented dedicated server from hetzner) I have connected the Proxmox Backup Server as storage...
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    Using an Amazon AWS S3 Bucket as backup storage

    Hi there, Is there a way to use an S3 Bucket as storage for my Proxmox backups? Thank you for the help
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    Garbage Collection failing at "got unknown magic number"

    Hello, I am running Proxmox Backup Server 3.0-2 which has been failing on the nightly Garbage Collect at 68% which the following error: Any suggestions on where to go from here? The following is the full job log:
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    File Restore aus Proxmox Backup Server

    Das Backup wurde bereits genutzt und auch für den restore, ich habe nun aber seit neuerem (genauer Zeitpunkt unbekannt) folgenden Fehler beim File restore: drive-scsi 1&2 sind beides identische Festplattenkonfigurationen mit NTFS Diek 2 funktioniert einwandfrei, bei Disk1 erhalte ich...
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    How to change timing of backups

    I have an Ubuntu 22 VM running on TrueNAS. I set up this VM to backup to Proxmox Backup Server. I have no recollection of setting a time. The backup runs every night at 9p. I want to push this to like 2a. Any ideas how I might have programmed the timing originally?? My crontab looks like...
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    Vm backup stuck at 99% no error just hangs

    as mentioned in title vm backup stuck at 99% no error just hangs backup disk is not full I can stop and relaunch the backup but it just doesn't work on some machines . No message other than Info : 99% for 2.5 h on this screen
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    Proxmox Backup Server Synchronization the Same on Site A and Site B

    So I have an on premises Proxmox Virtual Environment with VMs on it, this gets backed up to another on premises Proxmox Backup Server which then gets Synced offsite to a Remote Location. This Remote Location then gets synced to an Offsite Location with ZFS Redundant Storage for further security...
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    VZDump and S3 don't mix well

    Hey, Straight to the point, the "move" operation at the end of VZDump kills it if the destination is S3 backend (for which move is actually copy&delete). Currently I'm using rclone to mount S3 bucket. Would it be possible to add a switch that would write backup directly to the destination...
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    [SOLVED] restore overwrite disks

    Hello, If i had VM with three disks like 101,102,103 and i backup 101,103 so when restore the backup (overwrite) what happen to 102 Best Regards
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    Unable to restore VM backup

    Hello everyone,I encountered a problem on a VM that no longer worked. I figured it didn't matter because I had a backup.I deleted the crashed VM and when restoring, I have many messages indicating that the disk was full. Spaces on proxmox (8.0.3) are sufficient. My question is it possible to...
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    Salvage broken zfs rpool?

    Hello Together, first of my Hardware configuration: Mainboard: ASRock X570 Pro4 CPU: Ryzen 5750G GPU: Intel A380 RAM: 128GB 3200MHz ECC UDIMM NIC: X540-T2 SSD: 2x 980 Pro Samung 2TB for rpool 3x10TB & 3x18TB for HDD-pool Last weekend I installed Proxmox Backup Server inside a LXC with a bind...

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