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    Trouble with vzdump/backups (especially windows)

    My linux VMs back up fine, but the windows ones do not. I was using zstd and the backups kept freezing (I couldn't stop the process without restarting the node), so I am trying gzip now. This time, the process at least ends without hanging, but there are still errors on the windows VMs. I'm...
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    Export Ceph Image To GZip

    Hey Guys, I am hoping you can advise... I want to export a ceph disk image to gzip manually, not download the entire server since it's a lot larger... How can I change rbd --pool Default export vm-105-disk-0 /mnt/pve/NAS/vm-105-disk-0.raw to export it to a gzip file safely and successfully...
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    proxmox zst backup format can't be restored from gui

    May 12 09:46:40 pxtool pvedaemon[1250]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:pxtool:000033D2:0283B39B:5EBA5460:qmrestore:100:root@pam: May 12 09:46:40 pxtool pvedaemon[13266]: ERROR: couldn't determine format and compression type May 12 09:46:40 pxtool pvedaemon[1250]: <root@pam> end task...
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    the Backup

    Hi y'all , I'm pretty new with the proxmox V machine thing and need to get certain files from the back up I did on an external Drive I have the External Drive right now connected to my Linux client machine (I have windows as well). is there a way to extract files from this backup I have ? Ps...
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    Verifying and changing te Compression Level of Backups

    I just found out I can use pigz instead of gzip. Now I can use the higher compression without extending the time of running backups. In GZIP you can define a Compressions-Level of 9 but default is 6. How can I see which compression level I am currently using with vzdump and how can I change...
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    [SOLVED] Making a backup using pigz compression results in errors and a failed backup?

    This is what my vzdump default settings look like: #vzdump default settings tmpdir: /tmp dumpdir: /mnt/pve/synology/dump #storage: STORAGE_ID mode: snapshot compress: gzip #bwlimit: KBPS #ionice: PRI #lockwait: MINUTES #stopwait: MINUTES #size: MB #stdexcludes: BOOLEAN #mailto: ADDRESSLIST...

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