backup

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    Can't backup on NAS (NFS): Permission denied

    Hello, I have a Synology NAS on which I created a shared drive to host my pve backups. It works fine with VM but I'm getting a permission denied when trying to backup a unpriviledged CT. The output of the backup is: I already checked on google and in the forum and I found many different...
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    Reinstalling a Proxmox 7.4 node using backed-up files vs deleting and adding it back

    Hey everyone! So I have a 7-node cluster of PVE 7.4 and I need to reinstall one of the nodes because I did not REDACTED when installing it. I would like to keep the same IP address and hostname. The node is already empty (i.e., all LXCs and VMs have already been migrated to another node) and HA...
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    CT on NFS backup freezes and does not start again

    I have 3 nodes and all CTs are running of NFS server and backing up (using STOP mode) to another NFS server all over 10Gb link. Everything is running without problem but every lets say 14 days one node during backup of CT freezes, and until I manually stop it it shows just: INFO: starting new...
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    Issues with VZDump on LXC containers

    Hey Everyone. First I hope whoever sees this has a good day :) We're having an issue with our PVE cluster (v8.1.2) and backing up LXC containers that are run on a ceph pool It seems that sporadically and without cause, the snapshot stage of our backup job just fails, leaving the container...
  5. powersupport

    Proxmox backup client backup

    Hi, May I know if the backup using the proxmox backup client is baremtal or file backup? Thank you
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    How to put a Virtual Machine in custom backup state

    Hi everyone, I'm looking for a method to put a virtual machine into a backup state on Proxmox, allowing me to safely copy its files without interrupting its operation. I prefer to avoid using the default dump tool or backup utility, as I intend to create my own backup solution. If anyone has...
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    Backup Threat Modelling - Pruning Sidechannel

    I use both PBS and restic for backup on different systems. I'm very happy with both tools for their job. In the restic documentation I read about a possible threat and wonder how it is handles in PBS. I have not found any mention of the threat or a mitigation in the documentation of PBS. Attack...
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    de-duplication with encryption inside vm

    Hello, I was hoping to get some clarity about backups and encryption from inside a vm. If I encrypt a debian vm with luks on lvm, will this interfere with proxmox backup server de-duplication, pruning, etc? To clarify, the encryption in not happening in proxmox, but within the vm. Any other...
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    [SOLVED] Backup & Restore LXC container to new Proxmox server issues

    Yesterday, I backed up and restored a LXC container to a new Proxmox VE 7.4-17 server using the information in these two resources and it was a new "template" on the new server. Both servers are running Proxmox VE 7.4-17...
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    It doesn't detect 3-node cluster storage well.

    Hello dear community. Could you help me with this case, I have a storage unit contracted in the cloud and I mounted it in a proxmox cluster, it contains 5 nodes, of which only 3 correctly detect the storage and the last 2 do not.Could you help me by indicating how to find the solution, I search...
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    Automatically pass through a USB device to a VM when plugged in?

    Hello all. I had a search in the forum but i wasn't able to identify that specific question. My Setup: I just installed a Proxmox host and as I don't have (and don't want) a separate NAS for storage, ONE of the VMs on that host will make an 8TB disk available to my local network via SMB/NFS...
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    Backup LXC-Container - Passt das so?

    Hallo, ich habe in Proxmox das Backup der LXC-Container konfiguriert. In der Mail steht folgendes: Betreff: vzdump backup status (pve.local): backup successful Details: 100 debian01 ok 1min 3s 857.447 MiB /mnt/pve/nas/dump/vzdump-lxc-100-2024_01_28-11_29_44.tar.zst Logs...
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    Backup in Version 8

    Guten Morgen, ich habe eine Frage zum internen Backup der Version 8 zur 7. In der 8 wird nämlich nicht mehr die Gesamtgrösse angezeigt. Kann ich das irgendwo einstellen? Das war die Ausgabe letzte Woche, noch mit Version 7 VMID NAME STATUS TIME SIZE FILENAME 102 Opnsense OK 00:06:51...
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    backup Storage Access Log | /etc/pve/storage.cfg Option

    Hello, I'm a proxmox user in Korea. I have configured a backup server as shown in the image below. If you look at the log of the backup server, Access logs continue to appear as shown in the image below. Is there a way to reduce or eliminate these access logs? I don't normally use it, but...
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    Better Backup Strategy for Homelab

    Hello, I am very new to Proxmox. I am a long time Windows Server (on bare metal) user for HomeLab for a very long time, since recently I moved to Proxmox and Linux based solution. Following is my current Hardware Configuration CPU: Core i7-8700 RAM: 16GB SSD: 512GB (for Proxmox and VMs)...
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    Backups causing server to go offline

    I have a strange issue whereby scheduled backups (that have been configured and running for over a year) are now causing my physical server to go offline. It is a 2 node cluster (I know, accepted) pve, pve2. All VMs run on pve, only Proxmox Backup Server runs on pve2 (set up like this for...
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    Backup How to Exclude Data Drive?

    Hello everyone, I'm reaching out to you regarding an issue with my Proxmox VE setup. I've added an SMB storage managed by TrueNas, which is hosted within a VM on my server. I'm using this storage for backing up my server, and these backups are then sent to OneDrive through TrueNas. However, I...
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    Backing up VMs works, CTs fails - NFS share

    Hi folks, My setup is 3 nodes with shared storage - an iSCSI LUN with a shared LVM Thin-pool on top. All are running 8.1.4. There is a separate NAS (also Debian 12) providing an NFS share for backups. Backing up VMs runs successfully. However, I've started using containers and those are not...
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    Backing Up Proxmox with Veeam

    Hello! I swear that I've done this before but for some reason on my new Proxmox 8.1.4 system I'm having trouble installing Veeam and backing up the OS. I first tried to install Veeam like I normally do on Linux systems (command below) but when I ran a backup I get the error Veeam snapshot kernel...
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    ERROR: job failed with err -61 - No data available

    Hey guys! I use Proxmox 8.13 and currently my virtual machines are showing the error in the title, luckily I keep regular backups. Apparently the virtual HD is damaged when performing the backup, but the machine continues to operate as if it had no problem of any kind. As expected, my solution...

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