datastore

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    Avoiding Sync Job Errors with Rotating Offsite Datastores in Proxmox Backup Server

    I'm running into an issue with my Proxmox Backup Server setup and now i need some help. I have two external offsite drives configured as separate datastores. I rotate them manually, meaning only one of the two disks is connected to the server at any given time. Each datastore has its own sync...
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    [SOLVED] Issue booting after upgrade 3.4 to 4

    Just finished upgraded with no errors\warnings and after reboot i have a problem: gui is not working (black page) and in the journalctl -b i get : ... Apr 12 17:46:04 pbs1 systemd[2036]: Startup finished in 219ms. Apr 12 17:46:04 pbs1 systemd[1]: Started user@0.service - User Manager for UID...
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    [SOLVED]Missing chunk, dosent resync ?

    Hi, I have 2 PBS each on separate site, lets say A and B. All datastores are synced between them but i have missing chunk on a fresh synced datastore on B pulled from A, on a specific snapshot. It seem B dosent try to pull missing chunk if i try to sync again from A despite he know he have...
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    fstrim doesn't run on datastore mounts

    I noticed on a PBS Hyper-V VM, ext4 disk, trim wasn't running on the datastore drive. File /usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.service has line: ExecStart=/sbin/fstrim --listed-in /etc/fstab:/proc/self/mountinfo --verbose --quiet-unsupported /etc/fstab does not contain /mnt/datastore/storename but...
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    ISCSI connection causing error "pbs: error fetching datastores - 500 Can't connect to ipaddress:8007 (Connection refused) (500)"

    Hello Everyone, i have a PBS server (version 4.1) running as a VM in a PVE (8.4) with a synology ISCSI connected (have installed open-iscisi in PBS via debian repo) as a datastore. The issue i am facing is that, after a few minutes PVE reports the following error pbs: error fetching...
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    failed to delete snapshot - "bucket does not exist" (400) when deleting snapshots from S3 datastore

    I started to sync my local datastore via pull direction to a Wasabi S3 bucket. I selected 'Remove Vanished' in the configuration but I got error messages of the snapshots it wanted to delete. I got the error message,"failed to delete snapshot - "bucket does not exist" (400)" for each snapshot...
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    PBS Garbage Collection fails on S3 (Contabo Object Storage) – missing `Name` field in response

    Hello Proxmox Team, I am experiencing a persistent Garbage Collection failure on Proxmox Backup Server when using an S3-compatible object storage backend. Environment: - Proxmox Backup Server version: proxmox-backup-server 4.1.1-1 running version: 4.1.1 - Datastore name: cloud-backup - Storage...
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    Trouble restoring VMs

    Hi I'm running a Proxmox VE 8.2.7. server and just now joined a cluster. The VM configs all disappeared. I couldn't find the old config files in both /etc/pve/qemu-server and /etc/pve/nodes/server2/qemu-server. I have previously used Proxmox Backup Server 3.4.0 and was hoping to be able to...
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    Importing Dataset fails

    So im at the end of my knowledge and need a littlebit of help, i seem to not see where my error is. I wanted to redo my "old" proxmox server, get rid of the split-bios and boot from SD, and use the raidcontroller to make it abit less likely to fail spectacularly. Since i cant sleep withotu...
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    ESXi Import Probleme

    Hallo Leute, ich habe einen ziemlich chaotischen ESXi-Server, auf dem wirklich viel Müll liegt und alles durcheinander ist. Jetzt wollte ich erstmal alle VMs von dort importieren. Am Anfang gab es Probleme, ESXi als Storage hinzuzufügen, weil eine VM ein Laufwerk im datastore2 eingebunden hatte...
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    Ist das verwenden der boot disk als datastore nicht vorgesehen?

    Ist das verwenden der boot disk als datastore nicht vorgesehen? Ähnlich wie bei TrueNAS? Das GUI will es mir nicht anbieten, also ist es offiziell out of spec? Möchte keine out of spec config fahren ;)
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    Error when creating local datastore

    Hi, I want to start by saying that I'm fairly new to all of this, but I do have a fully working local PVE and PBS instance working. What I am aiming for now is an offsite PBS instance and sync that to my local PBS. The chances that I will need this offsite PBS are extremely rare as my local...
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    Sorting by 'Comment' not working in Datastore Content view (Proxmox Backup Server)

    Hi team, I've noticed that in Proxmox Backup Server (PBS), the sorting functionality for the 'Comment' column in the Datastore -> Content view doesn't seem to work. When I try to click on the column header to sort by comment, nothing happens — the list order remains unchanged. I'm currently...
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    Basic Datastore configuration with consideration of using Tapes

    Hi All, First time trying PBS so forgive the basic questions but I could do with some pointers. This is for a homelab situation and not a production install, so time isn't an issue. I have a couple of Proxmox servers, one of which has TrueNAS installed. This TrueNAS VM offers SMB shares as...
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    Bakcup to NAS Storage - How to limit resource access time interval

    Hello, I am writing this thread to ask some questions about my backup system in my Home Lab: First of all, I have a Mini PC with Proxmox VE running, an LXC container with PBS installed with Helper Scripts. I also have an old Synology DS215j NAS used for backups. Following the instructions in...
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    [SOLVED] how do I solve a datastore missing each reboot?

    Hi everyone. (newbie alert) I have a PBS 3.3.2 server on bare metal. There are two datastores used for backup of a PVE server. I had a couple of drives and decided to stripe two 8TB drives when I started. I wasn't able to create the stripe using the gui, so I did it via the command line...
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    Retention: Prune Job vs Datastore Config

    Hi, Within PBS, there are two places to configure retention: - in the config of the datastore during datastore creation (visible with sudo proxmox-backup-manager datastore show [datastore], don't know how to see in GUI) - when creating a prune job (web UI in the Prune & GC Jobs tab of the...
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    Rotate removable HDD

    I have two USB hard drives and want to use them so I have one offline and one online and then after a while switch them so the one that was offline becomes online and vise versa. Is there a way to have same datastore for both disks? Currently I have to datastores - BackupSSD1 for the first...
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    PBS+DATASTORE truenas SPACE

    hello i have a problem configuring PBS. I have a truenas server and i add this truenas like data store, in truenas i have a 5.33TB but when i go to the dashboard of PBS the datastore is less i attach the image. In Truenas the service is SMB. i dont understand why PBS dont see all the POOL and...
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    PBS on PVE zpool import after reboot

    I did setup a PBS on same host as a pve (I will not use this pve for running propouse, I have others), but I need to connect my backup disk who is a iscsi disk (previous used on another pbs) . My iscsi disk is going up normaly after reboot, but zpool import doesn't work. So my datastore is not...