backups

Looking for some feedback here, I recently noticed some of my backups were larger than I expected given the amount of actual data residing in the guest VMs. But I realized this is because some of those guest VMs had *previously* stored a lot of data and though I had deleted it it wasn't...

Hello, My VM total size is 400 GB and I only use 8-9 GB but the backup size is 63 GB. A few days ago, while only a maximum of 5 GB, right now 63GB and I don't understand this.. I have read all previous writes but could not reach the solution This is Proxmox: root@prox:~# df -h Filesystem...

Hi, I was wondering on the possibility to adding a notes field when creating a backup so that one can add some comments relevant to the backups. I think this would help to identify which backups to restore as well by referencing the notes.

So I am new to proxmox and I am trying to setup an RDX drive to be the backup for all of proxmox. I followed the storage wiki and created the storage in proxmox, here is the link to what i followed. I created it as an LVM type https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model So now when i try and...

Hello, i have to migrate a big Centos 5 Openvz VPS on a new Proxmox 4 LXC. My Idea was to create a base Centos5 VPS and than use rsync. ( less downtime ). When i try to create a LXC container Cento5: TASK ERROR: unsupported redhat release 'CentOS release 5.11 (Final)' How can i create a minimal...

So after following this guide on how to get my 2TB to be a secondary drive: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model#LVM_Groups_with_Local_Backing I now come and face that it isnt allowing me to let it become a backup drive, it does however allow containers and vms (only in raw image however...