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    About once every 1-7 days, authorization stops working on my PBS servers. client error (Connect)","status":400

    About once every 1-7 days, authorization stops working on my PBS servers. If I try login, I have successfully receives HTTP request (hence HTTP 200 OK) but fails to connect to backend daemons. I immediately get an error: {"errors":{},"message":"client error...
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    Crashing API PBS 4.0.11

    Hi, I’m running into a rather strange and specific issue. I have the latest version of PBS 4.0.11 installed on bare metal. It’s connected to an S3 endpoint as the main storage and an NFS share used as cache. The whole setup is configured correctly and works perfectly fine for single backups...
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    backup needs much more space than the LXC itself

    I have a lxc container in pve. The webgui shows me an amount of storage of 12.69 GB. The backup in PBS needs more than 20GB. I cannot afford this amount of storage and would like to shrink the storage of the backup. But how?
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    ERROR: VM 101 qmp command 'backup' failed - backup connect failed: command error: http request timed out

    Hi. First of all, thanks for the great products! I have a small lab with PVE. The PVE contains two VMs, one of them is a PBS. The storage for the backup datastore is a separate disk which is passed-through to the PBS VM. A few days ago I have set up a schedule to backup both VMs to the PBS. Of...
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    [SOLVED] PBS API keeps returning "authentication failed - invalid token name"

    Hi All, I am using the PVE api without any issue so i am familiar with the basics of creating an API token and using it via tools such as cURL or other command line and scripting methods. However, when I attempt to replicate how I do this with PVE in order to do it with PBS (Backup Server...
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    add pbs to pdm by cli howto

    hi there, unfortunately i am unable to find the command to add a pbs to the pdm as recently announced in the changelog of pdm. (Enable Proxmox Backup Server Integration, CLI only for now.) does someone have a hint for me, please? br kohly
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    Script that checks if the latest backup is fresh

    Hi, i wrote testinfra script that checks for each vm/ct if the latest backup is fresh (<24h for example). Its intended to run from PVE and needs testinfra as a prerequisite. See https://github.com/kmonticolo/pbs_testinfra
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    pbs - Interactive Restores - Not restoring empty directories

    I tried looking, but could not find anything about this. I am running a postgres container that has a health check script. I deleted the persistent data today to try my backup. It went well, except for some empty folders that did not get restored. I did a partial restore using the following...
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    After update PVE 8.4 and PBS 4.0 very slow backup CT

    Hellou, After update PVE to version 8.4.11 (Before PVE 7.4) and PBS 4.0 (Before 3.4) backup CTs is very slow. In version 7.4 this time backup +/- 30 minutes, after update this backup time is +/- 1h15. Attachment actual configuration backup. I investigated all configuration, RAID, network, CPUs...
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    Proxmox Checkscript

    Hello everyone. I created a bash script, that checks for QEMU VMs the (non-)existing backups from PBS. This script is useful, if: multiple users (customers) uses your PVE you own multiple PBS and want to verify retention verify data privacy Example, why this script is useful: Customer A...
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    Best practice setup for Proxmox Backup Server and NAS on the same Node

    Hi there i already have a PVE Server up and running in my HomeLab. Now i plan to expand my HomeLab with a second Server. Actually i use Open Media Vault in a VM on my PVE Server for my NAS Solution. My new Server Rack will have HotSwap Cases so i want to move my NAS to the new Server. The new...
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    Lost GRUB menu on Serial Console after PBS 4.0 / Trixie Upgrade

    After upgrading PBS from 3 to 4 via in-place upgrade, I no longer see the GRUB boot menu in my serial console. This is my grub config: $ cat /etc/default/grub # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in this...
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    Subject: Intermittent backup errors and repeated TLS handshake failures

    I am running PBS as a VM on the same Proxmox host where I back up LXC containers and VMs. Backups usually work, but sometimes they fail with errors like: catalog upload error - pipelined request failed: connection closed because of a broken pipe Error: error at...
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    Lentidão no Download do backup

    Olá, Tenho uma um ambiente proxmox pbs configurado. Gostaria de verificar qual seria a melhor e mais rápida forma de voltar um backup, atualmente, pelo nosso conhecimento, o download ocorre pelo navegador. Dessa forma, é muito demorado. Como que podemos maximizar a velocidade do download dos...
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    Solution for "The repository 'http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client trixie InRelease' is not signed" error

    Hello I've solved this error with PBS Client in Debian 13 (Trixie): Warning: OpenPGP signature verification failed: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client trixie InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Missing key...
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    PBS 4.0.12 and Metric

    Hello, I'm having a little trouble setting up metrics in PBS 4.0.12. I configured my InfluxDB metric as follows influxdb-http: InfluxDBPBS bucket Bucket comment InfluxDB/Grafana organization MyOrg token...
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    Finding out actual use of of storage for namespace or VM

    Hi I am trying to figure out how I can via API, CLI or webUI find out what actual storage space a namespace or VM backup takes in PBS. Thanks in advance!
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    [Help] Different backup retention policies per VM

    Hi, I am using Promox PVE and PBS for more than two years now - also in production environment - 3 HA clusters with one PBS behind to handle backup jobs. At this moment, backup retention policy is one for all VMs - meaning prune job - Last:0 Hourly:0 Daily:7 Weekly:4 Monthly:12 Yearly:0. Not...
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    PBS4: How does PBS4 use its cache when a datastore is configured on a S3 bucket?

    Hello to everyone, We're in the process of testing the new beta of Proxmox Backup Server, especially the S3 implementation. To this moment everything seems to work flawlessly with our Garage S3 compatible cluster, but my main doubt arise about the local cache. If I restore a backup from the S3...
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    Anzeige freier Speicherplatz im GUI wenn weiterer Dataset auf dem PBS-Server vorhanden ist.

    Hallo, ich nutze den PBS auf Bare Metal und habe neben dem PBS auf das gleiche System ein SMB-Server für Windows Clients Backups eingerichtet um ein zusätzliches NAS zu sparen (Siehe vergleichbarer Thread hier im Forum: Link). Beides ist datentechnisch von einander getrennt: der PBS und der...