lxc backup

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    cant add changer - Tandberg T24 LTO6

    So i got my hands on a Autoloader, and want to store stuff on it ofcourse, The Autoloader is visible in Proxmox VE, gets a device path /dev/sch0, the tapedrive gets /dev/st0 i tried to get it running in the pbs lxc, but here the devices dont have a path. Got around that by specifying the paths...
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    Permission Denied while doing Backup (LXC)

    Hi, i have some issue while doing backup lxc, i got permission denied, i created lxc by adding another sudo user, it's because of that i got the error ? this the result of error Backup of VM 20003 failed - command 'set -o pipefail && lxc-usernsexec -m u:0:100000:65536 -m g:0:100000:65536 --...
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    Best (config/storage) strategy for multiple lxc with docker?

    Hi, I have to rebuild a node. I want it to run multiple LXCs with multiple docker container and am wondering on what would be the best strategy on this. Here are my ideas so far. Let's say I have two LXC called "network" and "media". "network" should run something like adguard and wireguard...
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    Cannot restore lxc from backup: unsupported Ubuntu version '24.04'

    pve: 8.2.2 - fresh install () recovering backed-up configuration from 'nas-01:backup/vzdump-lxc-107-2024_07_22-00_13_50.tar.zst' restoring 'nas-01:backup/vzdump-lxc-107-2024_07_22-00_13_50.tar.zst' now.. extracting archive '/mnt/pve/nas-01/dump/vzdump-lxc-107-2024_07_22-00_13_50.tar.zst' Total...
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    cannot backup LXC to any stores

    Hey folks, I've read a number of other threads which have been helpful in better understanding LXC backups, but none that provided an answer for my problem. I have a rather critical LXC that, for the life of me, I cannot backup. It seems to always fail with the initial rsync command: rsync...
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    backup LXC not working on latest version of proxmox 8

    Any suggestions on this error? I checked and added vzdump.conf the tmpdir option but still no luck INFO: starting final sync /proc/3363033/root/ to /tmp/vzdumptmp3365303_130/ INFO: final sync finished - transferred 0 bytes in 2s INFO: resuming guest INFO: guest is online again after 2 seconds...
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    LXC container backup ends with error

    I have a backup for all my containers running against an external s3fs bucket (hosted in iDrive). I also have this script running that, once the backup finishes, it deletes the backup files from the local disk I recently created a new container where I mapped two drives which I use to put the...
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    [SOLVED] BTRFS error bei Backups

    Hallo, Ich habe seit mehreren Tagen das Problem das mein Backup für ein LXC nicht läuft. Das was im Backup Log steht: 152: 2024-01-23 02:00:03 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 152 (lxc) 152: 2024-01-23 02:00:03 INFO: status = running 152: 2024-01-23 02:00:03 INFO: CT Name: Docker 152: 2024-01-23...
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    Privileged LXC group IDs different to host after restore

    Hi, I have just done a clean install of PVE 8.1.3 after changing some hardware in the host. I have restored my Plex LXC and some of the groups have different IDs in the container than the host which is breaking my GPU transcoding. The render group is ID 107 in the LXC but 104 on the host. On...
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    Proxmox LXC backup - failing

    I've got one LXC that's failing backup whenever I run it. I've tried setting the vzdump.conf temp dirs to my mergerfs pool in the thoughts that it was my main drive filling. But the error is really not giving me any pointers. And even watching it I could not see any drives full. Here are...
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    Cannot execute a LXC backup with stop mode on a HA managed and enabled Service

    I run a proxmox cluseter. Both my data storage and 'machine' storage fits on Ceph. To avoid issues with HA and bind mounts I use ceph-fuse on LXC to access data. As I use the LXC/fuse combination as i understand it there is no other option than to stop in order to do the backup? Before I...
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    LXC snapshot backup fails

    Hi, I have experienced several backup job failures that happen when a LXC backup job begins. As the logs below show, the snapshot backup jobs proceed OK for VM's until the job reaches my Nexcloud instance. The backup job stops logging and; 1. Proxmox locks the affected LXC 2. The backup job...
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    PCT without bind size in config and backups

    Hi there, Here is my scenario maybe you can suggest a better method or solution. First, I use multiple LXCs, and each has a bind mount to a single volume so that they can share data. this was done by adding mp0: btank:subvol-115-disk-0,mp=/tank to each container's config. One issue is that the...
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    Export subvolume of lxc container on zfs to qcow2

    Hi all, I have an lxc container with two volumes: arch: amd64 cores: 10 features: nesting=1 hostname: foo memory: 4096 mp0: local-zfs:subvol-112-disk-1,mp=/media/foo,backup=0,size=2000G net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,hwaddr=<mac>,ip=dhcp,type=veth onboot: 1 ostype: debian rootfs...
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    [SOLVED] LXC container backup hanging

    Hi, I am trying to backup my LXC containers but the job just hangs after printing: INFO: including mount point rootfs ('/') in backup I have waited about two hours, but the job has not progressed. The container itself is about ~8gb, so I don't think size is an issue. How do I go about...
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    Multiple directories excluded from LXC backup

    Hello! I make excludes from my LXC backup: pvesh set /cluster/backup/backup-ced960d3-6428 --exclude-path "/home /var/ /usr" and i start backup manualy, log looks good: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 111 --mode snapshot --notes-template '{{guestname}}' --storage noc3-proxmox --mailto...
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    Backup behaviour of LXC containers on PVE

    Hi everyone! I am currently trying to understand the backup process on PVE hosts a bit more because i noticed a small issue lately that i am trying to resolve on my host. Basically i noticed my backup jobs for my LXC containers stopped working a while ago because it apparently runs out of space...
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    LXC backup fails with rsync exit code 11

    I have LXC container with 120GB disk space, 35GB out of 120GB is used, which is roughly 35% taken. I have connected external storage box from Hetzner for backup purposes. When I manually click "Backup now" (or scheduled one) the job fails with "rsync exit code 11 ", see spoiler below for job...
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    [SOLVED] Unable to resize (increase) LXC container disk

    I have Proxmox 7.2-11 and two LXC containers, one per environment - dev (101) and prod (100). Dev container has 60GB disk size and prod is 100GB. I have connected Storage Box from Hetzner in order to have backups for each container. I tried to do test run of backup job and it failed on dev...
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    [SOLVED] LXC Backup from my TrueNas

    I want to perform a backup to my lxc container from my TrueNAS manually. What are the files that sould i back them? is the disk file (.raw) sufficient or there are other file ? Thank you

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