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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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    Move VMs to the new server

    Hi, How can I move my VMs to the new server? I've been doing backups on secondary SSD drive on the old server and installed that disk in the new server, however I cannot find my backups. How can I access them? Thanks, Krzysztof
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    Backup failure (repeatedly)

    Recently, there have been regular (once a few days, sometimes once a day) backup failures on proxmox backup server. The log is below, in general, the machine is locked and has not been unblocked after. Subsequent viral machines are also all failed (Permission denied). What can I do, do I need...
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    Misleading errors IMHO from failed backup.

    I was having several failures backing up containers, that looked like this: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 101 --notes-template '{{guestname}}' --remove 0 --storage DS220jBackup --node pve0 --mode suspend --compress zstd INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (lxc) INFO: Backup started at...
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    CIFS backup to NAS over OpenVPN hangs up

    Hi All ! I've just configured a new Proxmox installation -7.4.16) and tried to configure the backups. I've mounted a CIFS share hosted on my NAS over an OpenVpn tunnel. Tunnel is stable, CIFS share is created properly. However when trying to backup VMs, it works... files are transferred to the...
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    Priority of pbs tasks

    I discovered during the backup that if several nodes are selected in the backup schedule, then several backup tasks are created that start running simultaneously. The storage goes up to 10 Gbps, but currently, a server with a virtual machine with pbs has a 1 Gbps channel. I plan to eliminate...
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    kern.log spammed by NFS messages

    When doing backups since today the `kern.log` is spammed with huge amount several GB - ~ as large as the backup file) of messages ``` 2023-08-04T09:59:19.278111+02:00 hv1 kernel: [793097.803800] NFS: write_begin(dump/vzdump-qemu-109-2023_08_04-09_51_32.vma.dat(136249364), 4096@46983004160)...
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    Proxmox Backup Server works

    hello, tell me please, is it possible to simultaneously run the task of verifying backups at the time when new backups are being made, similarly with the task of garbage collection just noticed that I have a lot of backups in an error state, while backups are made every day and their number is...
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    error before or during data restore, some or all disks were not completely restored. VM 106 state is NOT cleaned up.

    Hi, today I reinstalled my server. I back-uped all my VMs. When I had proxmox freshly installed, I went straight to restoring my VMs. All went well except the most important VM for me. The size is 1.7TB. Server config: -old dell r710 -wd purple 4tb in raid 1 and other drives -128GB RAM -Xeon...
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    Proper installation of Virtual Environment and Backup Server

    I have 1 server where I need to install as Proxmox Virtual Environment for creating a pair of vps servers. But also install Backup Server to copy other servers that are not in the office. Tell me how to install everything correctly? Start to install Virtual Environment and create a virtual...
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    Restore VM qcow2

    I've restored a machine that initially has a qcow2 format disk, but when I restored , it was restored with a .raw format, now I can't make snapshots on a directory pool, when you restore a VM you can't select the format of the disk , there is some configuration in backup server that sets the...
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    [SOLVED] PBS - multiple backup failed VM every day

    Hi all, We have been using your products in our company for many years. Not long ago, we completely renovated the entire server infrastructure. So far there are 9 PVE with 3 PMG clusters on VM and standalone physical server - PBS 3.0-1 We have a problem with backups. Every day we need to back...
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    How to backup Proxmox host?

    Hi. I'm trying to find solution on how to backup main proxmox host. I can sucessfully backup configuration files with some script found on the Internet however I'd like to have a proper backup of my host. There's an article "How to Install Synology Active Backup for Business agent on Proxmox...
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    Inkrementeller File Backup

    Hallo zusammen, zum Thema Inkrementeller File Backup gab es glaube ich in der Vergangenheit schon Anfragen/Bug Reports ob die Mechanik dahinter verändert werden kann, um den File Abgleich zu beschleunigen. Mein Gedanke geht da zu Baeros Logik wo es deutlich schneller von statten geht. Gerade...
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    Backup Schedule Time Discrepancy and UI Feedback

    I am writing to report a potential bug I have encountered in Proxmox version 7.4-15. My issue pertains to the backup scheduling feature. I have set a backup schedule as follows: "mon,tue,wed,thu,fri 18:15" (please refer to the attached screenshot). However, in the display of the next run time...
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    Configure amount of parallel VMs in backup job

    Hello, in the Datacenter->Backup settings I created a job to backup all VMs in a 3-node cluster. To me it seems the backup job tries to backup all VMs in parallel. Is there a way to process the VMs in the job one by one? I found the wiki page for this here...

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