garbage collection

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    [SOLVED] Garbage collection phase1 does not mark (m)any chunks

    Currently, garbage collection tries to delete most of my chunks. I have about 4M chunks, at list half of which should be used, and the GC log goes like this: 2024-09-27T17:01:19+02:00: starting garbage collection on store backup-cephfs 2024-09-27T17:01:19+02:00: Start GC phase1 (mark used...
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    Garbage collect job fails with "EMFILE: Too many open files"

    All of a sudden the garbage collect job started to fail with: TASK ERROR: update atime failed for chunk/file "/mnt/proxmox-backup/.chunks/69f8/69f82c53064d2eb7795d401a63177ebda5bba778f02db397235e6508a2fee0ed" - EMFILE: Too many open files This happens after marked 85% (212 of 249 index files)...
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    Garbage Collection failing at "got unknown magic number"

    Hello, I am running Proxmox Backup Server 3.0-2 which has been failing on the nightly Garbage Collect at 68% which the following error: Any suggestions on where to go from here? The following is the full job log:
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    [SOLVED] Garbage Collection already running, aber sie läuft gar nicht.

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe hier folgendes Phänomen: proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection start extdrivecrypt Error: garbage collection already running Wenn ich mir den Status der Garbage-Collection anschaue, dann ist dem auch so: proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection status...
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    [SOLVED] Stats from last Garbage Collection

    Ich biete als Zentralen Backup Server diesen Meinen Kunden an die ebenfalls auf Proxmox setzen. Zur Abrechnung verrechne ich den Kunden Jeweils die aktuelle Nutzung. Es wäre daher für mich sehr hilfreich wenn in der Datastore Übersicht nicht nur der Duplikate Faktor, sondern auch der aktuelle...
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    unable to access non-existent chunk

    Hallo, ich habe im PBS (Backup Server 1.1-9) mehrere datastores angelegt. In einem der Datastores bekomme ich täglich tausende von Fehlermeldungen der folgenden Art: 2021-06-08T00:00:00+02:00: starting garbage collection on store dmz 2021-06-08T00:00:00+02:00: task triggered by schedule...
  7. V

    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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    error on cifs attached datastore

    So with the release of PBS "stable". I loaded a vm and mounted a cifs volume from my synology nas. I was able to configure and run backups to the datastore with no problems. When I tried running a manual garbage collection from the gui, I got the following error: 2020-11-16T18:46:39-05:00: TASK...

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