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    Deleting Failed Backups via CLI

    Hey everyone, I'm managing backups on my PBS and I've run into a bunch of failed backups that I need to delete. I've attached an image showing the list of backups with their statuses – you can see the failed ones marked in red. Can anyone guide me on the specific commands I should use to...
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    Interessantes Projekt für PBS: PBS-Plus

    Hallo zusammen, ich wollte euch auf ein interessantes Open-Source-Projekt aufmerksam machen, das möglicherweise für viele Nutzer von Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) nützlich sein könnte: PBS-Plus. Das Projekt erweitert PBS um zusätzliche Funktionen und sieht insgesamt sehr vielversprechend aus...
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    Delay in finishing backups

    Hello I am having issues when I try to run several scheduled backups. For example, with the first VM, once the backup data copying is complete, it takes a long time to formally finish the backup. In this case, it takes 22 minutes and 55 seconds to complete the data copy and then an additional...
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    Proxmox Backup Server - a lot of "verify failed"

    Dear Proxmox Forum users, we have a relatively new problem occuring in our proxmox backup server setup. Since some time, more and more weekly verify show failed verify for some backups. There are currently 39 failed Backups, with verifying still going on and some backups were deleted already...
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    For info: Send system e-mail through a smarthost - configure postfix

    Hi all, Adding this here because I've just spent an hour trying to get to the bottom of why Proxmox notifications work perfectly through a smarthost, but system e-mails are sent directly. Hopefully somebody else will find this useful (or, more likely, future me will find this post when future...
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    Getting a working certificate

    Hello. I tried to get a certificate for my PBS following the documentation but have found many problems. Now it seems that I finally made it by using certbot. root@pbs:~# certbot certonly --manual --manual-auth-hook /etc/letsencrypt/acme-dns-auth.py --preferred-challenges dns...
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    PBS Access Segmentation

    Hello everybody I have a Proxmox Backup Server with two network interfaces: One network dedicated to backup traffic Another separate network for administrative access (Web GUI) I would like to configure PBS so that: The backup interface listens only for backup traffic...
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    Hetzner Storage Box as datastore

    Hello Proxmox Community, As my offsite backup solution, I decided to go for a Hetzner Storage Box and mount it on my old Intel NUC. I've used Rclone for it, create a systemd for it to auto mount it. I also tried using CIFs for it with the same result. I can see the .chunks and .lock directoy...
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    Hourly cronjob in PBS probably wakes up drives

    I am running PBS as a VM on Unraid, which works perfectly so far. My main datastore is mapped according to the tutorial at https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-setup-pbs-as-a-vm-in-unraid-and-uses-virtiofs-to-passthrough-shares.120271/#post-522318 via the virtiofs driver. The mapped drives...
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    [SOLVED] Retention Policy Design on PBS

    We are Plan using PBS and considering to adjust our backup retention policy to balance long-term restore capability with efficient storage usage. Daily Backup Job (Incremental) Schedule: Daily Compression: ZSTD Retention: Keep-Daily = 90 days Weekly Backup Job (Full) Schedule: Every...
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    PBS auf eine PVE VM

    Hallo, ich weiß natürlich, dass Backups immer getrennt vom Server System laufen sollen. Ich habe aber nur ein Home Assistant System und einige LXC/VM für den Heimgebrauch am laufen Bisher sicherere ich noch über den PVE auf eine NAS die aber ausgemustert werden muss. Jetzt hätte ich vor, auf dem...
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    Need guidance on best setup

    Hi all, I am looking for some advice on how to best configure my PVE cluster - will really appreciate some guidance! My current hardware consists of: Nodes: - 4 x MS-01 workstations (Intel 13900H, 96GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, 2 x 2.5GBe, 2 x 10GBe) Switches: - TP-Link 5 port (10GBe) - Netgear 5 port...
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    [SOLVED] PUSH SYNC Limit no works

    Hello everyone, I've setted up a PUSH sync job at 10MiB/s but this limit doesen't work as aspected. On the both firewall interfacess graph and zabbix monitoring I have the evidance that the sync job went at more del 200Mbps. I would have expected more or less 100Mbps. Has this happened to anyone...
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    Proxmox backup queue.

    I have a Proxmox VE server with one VM on it. And I consider to setup a backup job to PBS every hour. But sometimes happen that the backup job is not finnished and a new backup job waits for end of previous backup and when it stops the new backup start immediately and then another backup job is...
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    PBS multiple bootable disks

    Hi, I got a PBS server with 2x 3.8TB SSD with PBS installed as a RAIDZ1 and 12x 4TB HDD RAIDZ3 where the backups are saved. I noticed that only one of the SSDs has boot and biosboot partitions, so I guess that if it breaks the other disk can't be booted. Is there a way to reinstall PBS so that...
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    [TUTORIAL] PBS on TrueNAS - Have your cake and eat it too

    What? Are you wanting to use PBS to backup your servers, but want to use TrueNAS as the storage handler? I've been using this setup for the last few weeks and it has worked perfectly. With the latest update of TrueNAS Community Edition, 25.04, you can run Linux Containers (LXC) natively on the...
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    Bakcup to NAS Storage - How to limit resource access time interval

    Hello, I am writing this thread to ask some questions about my backup system in my Home Lab: First of all, I have a Mini PC with Proxmox VE running, an LXC container with PBS installed with Helper Scripts. I also have an old Synology DS215j NAS used for backups. Following the instructions in...
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    Show smart attributes gives error "Bad Request (400)" after hardware upgrade

    Hello, I changed PBS server hardware, moved two RAIDZ1 disks with host system and LSI SAS3008 with 24 HDD RAIDZ2 backup storage to a new motherboard. Everything works fine except "Show SMART volume" button. Now it gives error: " Bad Request (400) command "smartctl" "-H" "-A" "-j" "/dev/sde"...
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    backup@pbs != root@pam - How do I fix this

    Hi. My pbs server was originally set up without a separate user. I just used root to access it from my pve server. I had to reinstall pve completely. But instead of attached pbs using root@pam, I setup user backups@pbs. But ever since then, all of the previously restored VMS/CTS from the...
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    Problems compiling PBS v3.3.2

    Hello, since the thread patch that adresses this https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/low-zfs-read-performance-disk-tape.139494/ still didn't make it upstream I am forced to maintain my own patched Version of PBS, so I have to build my own debian packages. I usually take a clean bookworm vm for...