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    Backing up local drive content

    Hello, Recently started using Proxmox VE and want to backup now using PBS. It seems like the regular use case for PBS is for backing up your containers/vms to a remote PBS. I have a small home setup which one server. Proxmox is running PBS in a VM. I have my content such as photos, videos...
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    pve-root full

    Hello guys. I set up my Proxmox to backup files to my Google Drive, which is still working. I went away for a few months, and the local drive is now full, with my Transmission container not starting. I have a HDD connected to my router and then mounted to my Proxmox (sda1). Running df -h shows...
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    Local storage is filled during a full backup

    Hi all, I have a Proxmox VE 8.2.2 with few VM and a Nakivo v11 Trial that support Proxmox platform. This Nakivo makes backups of the main VM which is a Windows Server. This morning i found the Windows VM stuck in I\O error state. Impossible to stop or start the VM. After a forced reboot of the...
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    Cleaning up "local" storage

    Hi alll, I moved my USB drive, and the cable came part-way out. Result was that my backups went onto local as well as usb-drive. By that I mean, PVE managed to map both labels to the same place. local is 100GB, so it ran out of space, and I did not notice for 3 weeks. No biggie - I have not...
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    [SOLVED] Local full after backup unsuccessfull

    Hey guys, Proxmox is amazing and was working pretty flawlessly in my environment. Today I checked in on the system and saw that there was a backup job throwing an error. Checking the storages I saw that my external harddrive dropped from 500 GB storage to just 100 GB storage. After a reboot the...
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    [SOLVED] Local Storage fehlt nach Cluster Build

    Eigentlich nutze ich Blockstorage nicht, aber dank dem Hinweis von Falk wegen NVME-oF wollte ich mal den Einsatz von Blockstorage testen. Ich habe einen Node mit LVM und einen Node mit BTRFS aufgesetzt. Dann habe ich dem einem 'nen iSCSI-Storage zugewiesen. Damit der anderen den auch sieht und...
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    "local" hd filled with less than 2 ISOs

    Hello to all - a nubee here with a new Proxmox cluster running on three thin clients, each with a 16GB boot disk and a 1TB m.2 SATA, and with 36G RAM. The cluster is configured with shares on a separate TrueNAS box for general shared storage (including ISOs) and for backups. Those shares show up...
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    [SOLVED] Reduce local and Increase local-lvm Disk size?

    Hi All, After installing proxmox 7.3, i saw the following disk sizes info - local 100GB - local-lvm 1.64TB root:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 1.6T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part ├─sda2 8:2...
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    Delete Local LVM and resize storage in Proxmox

    Just saw a this video showing how to consolidate local (pve) with local-lvm (pve) onto a unified local (pve) drive by @ProgrammingStuff22 on YouTube. This looks quite interesting. My local (pve) recently inflated due to some experiments I was doing with rclone. Does anyone know if this can...
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    Local(pve) not using all of the storage available in LVM partition it is in

    I am using proxmox virtual environment 7.0-8 My machine is named pve, so the corresponding namings below- The issue I am describing started after I cloned my proxmox HD from a 250 GB HD to a new 500 GB HD. Originally, with the 250 GB HD, the default local(pve) storage (resides in /var/lib/vz...
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    removing/cleaning the local drive

    hi, i currently have 0 space left on my local drive, i have another called local-proxmox which is where i save all my vm's etc it has loads of space so im wondering how do i clean the local drive? as i want to be able to do things again it has basicly stopped working now becuase its "full" the...
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    cannot access Management GUI via xfce+chromium directly on host server

    Hello everyone, i just installed proxmox for the first time and after the installation followed https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11 since i needed to get some vms going for work and didn‘t have any client on hand. Now whenever i open chromium and navigate...
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    Increase Partition size

    Hi guys, I recently bought a server on which I run Proxmox for virtualization. First I installed Proxmox directly on my 1TB SSD, but then realized that I was losing almost 100GB for the "local" partition, but I wanted to use the fast SSD storage for the "local-lvm", i.e. the VMs themselves...
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    Default install size

    It seems as if the default install sets local at 100 GB. That's way overkill for my scenarios. Is there a way to change that upon install or after install (before adding VM's)?
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    Search Domain reverts to "local"

    My PVE 6.2-12 installation insists on reverting the search domain back to "local". The first time or two, I thought I forgot to set the domain, today was the third or forth time I changed it to the correct domain. How can I fix this? It's causing trouble in PMG where senders expect to find...
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    [Solved] Unable to initialize Samsung 970 Evo nvme SSD with GPT

    Hi, I'm new to proxmox. I installed the default regular way. When I logged in to the web gui I see local and local-lvm under the pve node. When I click the "initialize Disk with GPT" option it works for all disk except for the Samsung 970 Evo nvme SSD which fails with exit code 2. I checked...
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    whereabouts of local:vztmpl/* ?

    Hi, I see in various examples the referenced donation of ostemplate as something like: .... ostemplate="local:vztmpl/debian-.....tar.gz" and so forth My question is where is "local:vztmpl/" physically on both the proxmox server and in the proxmox gui. The template in which I saw this...
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    Local Shared Storage: Question about behavior

    Hello all, So I have a 3-node cluster which each server loaded with local hard drives. I want to share the local hard drives across all the systems in the cluster, so I did the following: Used parted to initialize with GPT and create a partition Used mkfs.ext4 to create a filesystem on each...
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    Change from local-lvm to local storage

    Hi, I have recently installed a Proxmox 4.4-18/ef2610e8 node in a existing cluster. Our node has a 8 TB disc, but I realised that our storage is like this: local: 100 GB local-lvm : (almost) 8 TB Since the other nodes on the cluster have storage type local, we would prefer this new node will...
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    [SOLVED] Installed Proxmox 5.1 on 2 TB hard drive but only 88 GB is being used?

    Hello! I haven't tried installing proxmox to a high volume drive and once I did on my 2 TB hard drive the root directory is only shown to be using up 88 GB. Can anyone please help me initialize the big chunk of the unused area in my 2 TB hard drive? Thank you!