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    how to not backup tpm state

    Hi I have a linux with LUKS and TPM, and auto-unlock if TPM is enabled. But I can`t disable backup TPM STATE. I have "recovery password" for luks if TPM is not avaliable. I would disable backup for TPM state disc, because, when my backup was (in example) not good encrypted, then "hackers" when...
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    My Proxmox host goes down due to backups.

    Hey there, I'm new to this proxmox. For a few months, my proxmox host goes down unexpectedly due to backups. After a manual restart, it comes back online. Initially thought that the issue was in BIOS. I did a few things, like updating BIOS, even though I get the same. Do you have any idea on...
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    [TUTORIAL] [Recovery] Mount pmxcfs offline, extract configurations - /etc/pve

    There are cases when you make changes in your configurations, only to want to partially revert it back. NOTE See how you should have already been backing it up [1]. Alternatively, you get hold of stale (from non quorate-node) or partially corrupt config.db - see also how to recover it [1] -...
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    Veeam Silent Data Corruption

    Hello Everyone, Our development team has been super busy qualifying Veeam integration for our Proxmox customers. Using internal tools designed to test the integrity of snapshots, we're seeing that Veeam 12.2 backups of live virtual machines contain silent data corruption and that the backups...
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    job-id: invalid format - invalid configuration ID

    Ever since I updated to 8.2.5, I've been getting the following error in my log when my backup jobs are supposed to run once a week: Sep 28 01:00:09 pve pvescheduler[117971]: 400 Parameter verification failed. job-id: invalid format - invalid configuration ID...
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    alter smb Mountpoint legt mein Server/Backup lahm: cd, ls -l, rm -rf reagieren nicht!

    Heyho, zu erst zu meinem Setup: Ich habe mich vor einigen Tagen entschieden die meisten Backups auf ein Dataset meines TrueNAS-Scale Servers zu speichern. Hierzu habe ich einen SMB Share in meinen Datacenter eingebunden. Da das einbinden eines weiteren smb Share probleme bereitet hat, habe ich...
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    [SOLVED] PBS API

    Hi guys, I'm working on monitoring the completion of backup tasks in Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). My goal is to track when a backup task finishes and receive notifications when all backup tasks report a status of "ok." I’ve reviewed the API documentation at Proxmox API Viewer, but it appears...
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    AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread, Veeam PM

    Hello everyone, Since Veeam community forum does not allow non-commercial domains to be used for registration, I decided to show up here and address any questions that you may have. I am a Senior Product Owner at Veeam and I am the one who oversees the integration with Proxmox VE. Ask away ...
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    Backup VM proxmox using command DD in live CD

    hello everyone, I really need help to backup VM proxmox using DD command on live CD because my proxmox host error/not booting (loading initial initramd), I want to backup this proxmox vm from live CD using DD command and send it to another server with ssh live cd : # vgscan # vgchange -ay # dd...
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    misunderstanding drive types and usage

    I have a newly installed proxmox 8.2.4 installation. Proxmox is installed on a 4TB NVME drive in a supermicro chassis. I have added 2 additional SATA 8TB SSD's. I already have some simple VM's running off the NVME drive, but nothing on the two additional ones yet. I added the two additional...
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    How to backup and restore Proxmox Users ?

    I migrate from a Proxmox 6 cluster to Proxmox 8 cluster. How can migrate all vm users ? I have tried coping the /etc/pve/user.cfg i see all users but passwords doasn't works .. Thanks!
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    Validate configuration for multiple Proxmox servers

    Hello Team Proxmox, I have 4 Proxmox servers: A - main with 20 cores, 64 GB Ram, 36 TB RaidZ2 - multimedia, documents, Docker services (password, Nginx, Homepage etc.) B - secondary with 12 cores, 32 GB Ram, 24 GB RaidZ2 - its backup role of replacing the main one for multimedia and...
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    [Solved] Recovering CEPH and PVE From Wiped Cluster

    The Headline: I have managed to kick all 3 of my nodes from the cluster and wipe all configuration for both PVE and CEPH. This is bad. I have configuration backups, I just don't know how to use them. The longer story: Prior to this mishap, I had Proxmox installed on mirrored ZFS HDDs. I...
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    Datei-Backup erstellen

    Ich suche eine Möglichkeit Datei Backups zu erstellen. Use-case: Meine Idealvorstellung wäre, wenn ich auf dem Proxmox Backup Server nicht nur LXC/VM-Container auswählen könnte, sondern auch Verzeichnisse (z.B. aus einem LXC Container). Für diese würden dann, genau so wie für meine container...
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    Restore with extra "state-suspend" disk not possible

    Hi all, tried to restore a backup of a VM created by the scheduled mechanism. The configuration of the backup job looks like #<div align='center'><a href='https://Helper-Scripts.com' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'><img...
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    PBS better on a NAS or PVE host?

    YES, I AM WELL AWARE THAT NEITHER IS SUPPORTED, pretty much nothing in my lab is ;), no need to tell me this 5 times. My own system, used only by me, if I break it or lose data, I won't come crying here, I promise. On some of my systems, I'm running PBS on the same host as PVE, and this works...
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    vzdump prune only

    My backup target filled up. Using other backup software in this situation, I would typically invoke a prune or retention process (also called a zero-byte backup w/ subsequent retention) which would usually bring it back from the cliff. Then I could adjust my retention settings to avoid this in...
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    S3 Backup support

    Hi, i've already announced it on reddit, now many fixes have been done since then I've developed with the help also of some contributors a proxy that will expose PBS api using S3 as backing storage https://github.com/tizbac/pmoxs3backuproxy Advantages: - Much more reliable, no s3fs fuse etc ...
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    Monitoring Proxmox With Zabbix

    Hello I've some Proxmox cluster and PBS. I want to monitor this features: Used Space Root User Disk Space Datastore Used Memory Used SWAP ZFS Raid Degraded Network Usage Network Disconnected PVE Version Update Status Uptime QEMU presence QEMU inside VM Disco RAM CPU Degraded ZFS Raid Snapshot...
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    Discrepancy in numbers?

    INFO: Starting Backup of VM 333 (qemu) INFO: Backup started at 2024-08-07 08:10:00 INFO: status = running INFO: VM Name: some.vm INFO: include disk 'scsi0' 'pool3:vm-333-disk-0' 500G INFO: backup mode: snapshot INFO: ionice priority: 7 INFO: skip unused drive 'local-zfs:vm-333-disk-0' (not...