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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...
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    [SOLVED] Windows VM freezes in the backup process

    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...
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    Possibility to move local pve backups to pbs

    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
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    When proxmox makes a backup, it takes more resources and the website on VM goes down because of resource lack

    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
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    Offload proxmox backups

    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...
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    Patching PVE on update

    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...
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    Multiple VZDUMP processes

    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...
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    Problems with backup of the lxc container to pbs

    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...
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    Trouble with vzdump/backups (especially windows)

    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...
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    vzdump with snapshot on BTRFS

    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 +++...

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