datastore

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    Storage optimieren

    hallo forum und staff, wenn ich eine Umgebung habe, wo ich ausschließlich VMs mit dem PBS sichere, wäre es dann nicht sinnvoll eine Blockgröße von 4MB für das Filesystem des Datastore zu konfigurieren, da ja die chunks alle 4 MB groß sind? Im Forum habe ich bereits einen Wert von 1 MB als...
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    Migrating backups from local storage

    When I migrate a machine, the backups for that machine is left on the local storage of the source node. How can one migrate the backups to the target node also?
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    Truenas NFS to proxmox backup server

    mounted the share in fstab and did mount-a in truenas i configured an nfs share But everytime i go to add a datastore and add the absolute path to /mnt/ProxMoxSharea it will not back to it. Even though that path is mounted on the backup server.
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    Increase size of PBS Datastore Directory

    Edit: fixed it in my latest comment! ---------- Hello guys, I'm running PBS 2.2-6 on my TrueNAS SCALE as a VM. I started out with a 6TB Volume for my PBS Storage and a 32GB Volume for my PBS Boot drive. The Storage started to fill up, so i increased the 6TB Volume to 11TB. After a Reboot...
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    Datastore LVM inactive

    Hello, all of a sudden out of nowhere on 1 server my local lvm datastore was on unknown.. i shut down all VMs and restarted the physical server once. Now the datastore doesn't want to link either. I get an inactive status message at pvesm. When I do lsblk I can see my /sdb where the raidset...
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    PBS datastore

    Hello, I have Proxmox & TrueNAS on my network. I created a PBS container on Proxmox and want to use the TrueNAS as the backup datastore for PBS since I have already setup ZFS Replication from TrueNAS to another server. So when I use TrueNAS for PBS, I would get 2 backups for the price of 1...
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    Timeout loading datastore content

    Hi, I am currently trying to solve a timeout issue while loading the content of a datastore. I have a datastore on the server that write directly to a SSD. The second datastore is a samba share that is connected via VPN. I run all of the backup jobs and after that I have a sync job running...
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    Backup fail sporadically

    Hello, we sporadically have the error messages below. At around 11pm, about 10 Proxmox servers start backing up. However, we have backup errors all the time. Last night, for example, 5 out of 10 Proxmox servers had a backup error. The errors occur at different times. At the same time, other...
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    Add a PBS 1.1 datastore to a PBS 2.2

    Hi everyone, May I add a 1.1 datastore to a 2.2 PBS ? I am search for some migration pattern from a proxmox to another (both use PBS for backup but on different version)
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    PBS-Datastore kann nach Migration nicht mehr gemoutet werden

    Hallo, wir betreiben einen Proxmox Backup Server in einer VM auf einem Proxmox Virtualisierer. Nach einer Migation der VM auf einen anderen Virtualisierer kam folgende Fehlermeldung: TASK ERROR: could not activate storage 'pbs1-datastore1': pbs1-datastore1: error fetching datastores - 500...
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    Datastore - emulating one by another?

    Good morning, here is a little sunday morning story with a question regarding Datastore emulation: My homelab is growing - while I am evaluating options to shrink it down for power consumption reasons. Growing is not always linear and with different new (in this case: used) hardware come new...
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    prune after writing on tape

    Good day I'm using PVE for over 7 years and i loved PBS as it came out. Everything works like a charm, for sure some skills are needed but without them, we would be wrong in our passion anyways. Thank you in advance for building such unique tools! Actually, I have a server in a dc in frankfurt...
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    Datastore Sync Latest

    Hello, I have setup on 2 different physical locations proxmox servers with proxmox-backup-server. Now i have configured a sync on both datastores for each other. Only how can i only sync the latest version of the vm? Now he is sync all versions (7) and later with prune&gc he is delete for...
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    Garbage Collection and nested Datastores

    I tried to run Garbage Collection and have saw the warnings in the log WARN: warning: unable to access non-existent chunk fbc102dadf17a3dc81e5eb73986f83ee00809b80e47299343b2954ff560c6b1f, required by "/mnt/datastore/PBS1/s12345/host/cent8/2021-09-30T04:26:24Z/catalog.pcat1.didx Where is the...
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    [SOLVED] PBS Installer created a RAIDZ1 - how to create a Datastore?

    Hi, i am quite sure this is a really silly question but I actually banged my head against ZFS-walls (again). I have a PBS Server freshly installed with 3 disks. I have let the installer create me a RAIDZ1 during installation. Now, I ended up with a PBS installation and under Storage -> ZFS I...
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    Fix zpool datastore usb dev/by-id

    Hi, created a datastore zpool on attached usb disk, which at the time identified itself by /dev/sdi. Need to change that to /dev/disk/by-id. Tried https://plantroon.com/changing-disk-identifiers-in-zpool/#detach-and-attach Want to export and import -d /dev/disk/by-id...
  17. DynFi User

    [SOLVED] Changing owner and cron backup of directory

    I am pulling my hair trying to have a cron based backup setup. First I am trying to have this command working without being croned and it doesn't! The global semantic with the proxmox-backup-client is really very confusing. I have managed to do the initial backup using root@pam account with...
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    Delete Datastore

    Hello guys ! I would like to know if it possible to delete a datastore in Proxmox Backup Server ? Thank you !
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    Datastore Stats from last Garbage Collection: Bad Chunks

    Dear Team, in the pbs gui I can see a number of bad chunks. I could not find any documentation what bad chunks are to understand the situation and how to get rid of these bad chunks. Is this just leftover of old stuff and will be deleted some time, or is this a major problem somewhere? Many...
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    Extending Datastore

    Hello, we have installed PBS as a vm on PVE. The vm has a virtual disk for the Backup Storage. (40 GB as Directory Storage) Now i want to expand the Storage. At the PVE side i increased the virtual disk. A moment later PBS shows the new disk size. (50GB) But the Datastore shows 40GB. How can...