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    Proxmox Cluster Improvements Ideas / Questions for small business

    We moved the hardware we had on-hand to Proxmox a year ago and now looking ahead to what's next (Fine tuning, improve reliability, and best practices). This is for a small business of around 10 users with a small amount of data (1.5 TB). The data is mostly spreadsheets, documents, and Access...
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    PVE runs a bunch of backups after unscheduled power cycle

    I have a 3 node cluster with HA off. It runs pretty well and does as expected most of the time except when power goes out. Anytime the cluster has an unexpected power cycle or outage (like losing power to the office), when the systems come back online, Proxmox VE starts a surge of backups of a...
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    During a backup, a VM not included in it is stopping and not restarting

    Hi guys, I need you help figuring something out. First, a little bit about my system. I have three VMs: - 101: TrueNAS with some hardware passthroug - 102: Ubuntu Server with GPU passthrough - 103: Mint I have two backup task: - one for VMs 102 and 103 - another one for VM 101 $df -h...
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    "Stop" backup hangs VMs with Nvidia GPU and must reboot the host to fix it

    Hi, I have a Nvidia 3090 passed into a Debian 12 VM. The first time backing up ("stop" mode) this VM (while the VM is running) always works. However the VM might hang after this, and the noVNC console in the web UI just displays a black screen. In this state, the VM no longer responds to QEMU...
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    How to (safely) backup a VM with PCIe passthrough?

    Hi, I have a Nvidia 3090 that is passed through into a Debian VM (for running LLM). I want to perform scheduled backup for this VM. In Proxmox web UI, I clicked "datacenter", then created a backup job ("stop" mode) that runs at 6am every day. It worked on the first day, but the backup job...
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    How to schedule monthly backup via web panel

    I have a Proxmox Backup Server in version 3.2-7 integrated with Proxmox VE 7.1-7, in the Web panel I am trying to create a new backup job to be executed on the 1st of each month at 00:00, but on the Web page there is no give me that option. Searching the Internet, I tested two suggestions. The...
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    I am looking for a more suitable backup method

    I have a question about backing up containers and VMs in a proxmox environment. My Proxmox VE server is running on a Minisforum MS-01 which has two 2TB SSDs and one of these disks has not been initialized yet. I am currently running backups using the Proxmox Backup Server, which is running in a...
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    [SOLVED] Datum im Betreff der Backupmail

    Hallo ich hatte in der VZDump.pm einen kleinen Patch, der mir auch das Datum in den Mail-Betreff geschrieben hat. Jetzt wurde der Teil ja umgebaut, und ich finde irgendwie keine Stelle mehr, wo ich meinen Patch einbauen könnte. das war der Diff der alten Version. -my $subject_template =...
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    Backup very slow

    Hello I've a PVE and a PBS new . I've a job from PVE to PBS . In a day I've added a NFS storage to PBS for a second destination and the same day a disk was with a smart error with 8 sectors. Replaced and resilver disk. I've added a Job in PVE to make backup in NFS and first Job it lasted 4...
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    Backup job errors

    My scheduled backup went error and i do not know what is happening. It shows errors like this: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 118 --prune-backups 'keep-last=1' --mode snapshot --node Proxmox102 --quiet 1 --mailnotification always --storage BackupVM_PC6_2 --notes-template '{{guestname}}'...
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    Error when removing backup for one backup job since a couple of days

    ... INFO: 98% (294.1 GiB of 300.0 GiB) in 3h 15m 20s, read: 75.3 MiB/s, write: 67.5 MiB/s INFO: 99% (297.0 GiB of 300.0 GiB) in 3h 16m 41s, read: 36.3 MiB/s, write: 27.6 MiB/s INFO: 100% (300.0 GiB of 300.0 GiB) in 3h 17m 45s, read: 47.8 MiB/s, write: 30.8 MiB/s INFO: backup is sparse: 37.91...
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    Backup Failed

    My proxmox server has been backing up numerous virtual machines for a substantial amount of time without issue. About a month ago one of my VMs started to fail backing up. As of right now I don't have much to go on. I have run fsck on the disks partitions that it would work on and nothing came...
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    Backup Completion Error Due to Missing Completion Flag

    PBS: (Proxmox backup server) The scheduled backup did not complete correctly because the completion flag was not set, resulting in the deletion of the backup. This occurred during the backup task on VM/167, and logs indicate that although the chunks were successfully uploaded, the completion...
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    Back-up speed randomly slowing down mid-backup

    This morning I noticed a problem that I have seen before, but could not isolate it the first time... 1. Back-up speed randomly slowing down mid-backup The back-up to my (remote) PBS server is starting well at 00.00 o'clock and continues doing well untill 02.43 with an average speed of 25MiB/s...
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    Proxmox Cluster Project: Advice Needed on HA, Backup Strategies, and ZFS Issues

    Hello Proxmox Community, I'm writing to get some advice on a Proxmox cluster project involving two main homeservers and a third site for backup storage. My aim is to enhance individual service availability by using already available hardware and high availability (HA). Both main sites host...
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    Cannot backup to other node

    Hi, all. Fighting here with a bit of a crazy setup, searching internet for solutions to no avail so far, so asking like this. I have 2-node setup with 3rd Raspberry Pi to get enough votes. On 1st node, I have some VMs. On the 2nd node, I have a 2TB SSD and I'd like to use it for backup of the...
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    Link Backup Jobs

    Hello I'm new in Proxmox I've 2 backup jobs and I want to start the second job after the first finish. How can I obtain this goal ? My best regards
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    Proxmox lockwait

    Good Day All. I would like to increase my lockwait timeout from 180 mins to 600 mins Noone says exactly where to edit some say add --lockwait to vzdump However i have nothing in that file. Chat gpt says to edit nano /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg backup-lockwait: 600 however another post says it...
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    Backup based on tags

    Hi Proxmox community, Is ist possible to control the PBS backup based on tags for vm's? Example: vm101 - tag: debian, fileserver, weekly vm102 - tag: windows, ad, daily vm103 - tag debian, test, none Our idea: PBS shall read the tags of the vm's automatically and perform the backup of the...
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    list all backups

    Hi, I run Proxmox Backup Server 3.2-3 and want to know how to list all backups of a certain VM on command line. Even more how to delete a backup from command line.