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    Use old backups with changed VM-ID

    Hello! i had to edit some of my VMs and change their IDs because i accidently restored a wrong, old backup with an identical VM-ID. So i changed them to be unique which actually worked pretty well. But now i realized that with the changed IDs i cannot use my previously created backups on my PBS...
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    Un-Forget Backups

    Hi, I accidentally clicked the red trash can button next to one of the backups in my PBS > https://prnt.sc/V9NKgYKn9JGh which has removed it from the list. Does anyone know of a way to revert this action?
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    Slow backups and poor performance of VMs during backups

    I am hoping I provide enough info off the bat to give a good idea of what is going on. But I am a little lost and just have a lot of questions I guess. I will also do my best to update with what has been answered, and link or say what the answer/solution was. The setup: So we have 4 HP DL360p...
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    [SOLVED] restore task running without task log

    I'm running a live restore from a local Proxmox backup server of a bout 5 tb of data. It's been running for about a day and a half now and since it's been running a day the progress log or item in the task bar has disappeared. I noticed that all other previous tasks disappeared. I'm kinda...
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    Beim Backup von VMs: qmp command 'query-status' failed - unable to connect to VM

    Hallo Gemeinschaft! Ich administriere einen Proxmox HA Cluster mit drei Nodes und einen Proxmox Backup Server zum Sichern der VMs. Unsere Proxmox Version ist 7.3-3. Wenn die automatischen Backups getätigt werden, taucht eine Fehlermeldung im Syslog auf, wo ich nicht ganz verstehe, ob ein...
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    [SOLVED] Is it safe to backup a PVE with encrypted zfs pool (native) to PBS

    Hi, I am slowly migrating some of our systems from dm-crypt to native ZFS encryption. Most hosts are pve-manager/7.3-4/d69b70d4 and PBS hosts are v2.3.2-1. I usually have one actual pool with tank/data and tank/data-encrypted which are our unencrypted and encrypted PVE pools: root@atlas:~#...
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    Recovery of VM fails due to exceeding size of thin pool pve/data

    Hello I cannot recover some VMs from PBS to Proxmox PE VM has couple of GBs, for example 64GB, my pve/data has 1,6TB free space. But recovery job is stopped for example after 24% and it ends with following error. It looks like PE think the VM is 7,5TB big and then of course. It can not fit to...
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    Getting error when running backup qmp command 'query-proxmox-support' failed

    When I run backup in proxmox getting error below Getting error when running backup qmp command 'query-proxmox-support' failed I couldn't find a resolution to this problem, can anyone advice? Thank you.
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    PBS: large amount of host files (ZFS backend, CIFS mounted)

    Hello! I'm trying to use PBS to backup my host files, but there is something that I can't understand. Let me explain... On my ZFS pools, I have a dataset with 3TB of media files. This dataset is mounted in a Debian VM through CIFS. I wrote a script to backup this "folder" to PBS using...
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    [SOLVED] Traffic limit isn't working properly

    Hey, we have a problem with our PBS setup regarding the traffic limitations. We run PBS 2.3.2 and PVE 7.3.4 with Ceph 16.2.9 as storage backend. We have configured a limit of 120 MiB/s for backups from all networks. This works great on the PBS site but sometimes we observe much higher rates in...
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    Cannot create backup task. 400 Parameter verification Failed.

    Hello, Since now i would like add a new backup job, but from the cluster i get the error: i have this on every server now, local and pbs. doesn't matter. anybody idea?
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    Transfer backups to another datastore

    Initially, an old server was used for backups. After the commissioning of the storage system, I want to free the server by saving the backups stored on it - transfer them to a new storage. How to do it correctly?
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    PBS disk safe not releasing

    Hi, Recently, one of the backup server disk usage reached 100%, we tried to remove many backups from the server, but none seems affected, and it still stands at 100% usage, we removed the backup from the GUI, is there anything we need to do from terminal to release the space, or what can cause...
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    iSCSI, snapshots and LXC within a PVE cluster

    Hello, I’m currently installing 3 pve hosts in cluster mode with an iSCSI EMC array, everything is redundant : 2 ToR switches for the servers , 2 switches for the iscsi traffic. We’ve chosen this solutions to migrate from ESX (too expensive). I’ve read a few articles / posts related to PVE...
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    [SOLVED] Unable to Backup CT from PVE to PBS

    Hi everyone I run PVE and PBS in my homelab, due to failure of my UPS and sudden shutdown of my servers i got stuck on the GRUB welcome page in PVE which i resolved by working around the faulty ssd which had superblock issues and was not letting pve to boot. After this incident i am unable to...
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    PBS sync job to local usb drive failed

    Hi, I used this post to create a local sync to an external USB Drive: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/external-pbs-copy.78215/. Everything worked fine, until I started the sync job. I always get this error: 2023-01-21T09:35:44+01:00: Starting datastore sync job...
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    Protected backups?

    Hello! Is there a way inside the PBS or PVE to set a specific backup as "protected", so that it will for example excluded from pruning jobs etc.? If so: where can i set it? Thank you in advance for answers! Best regards
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    Restore files to disk VM

    Hello, I have a question. Can I restore selected files from the GUI and/or CLI to the disk of the affected machine? At this point, I can select files through the GUI and download them to the desktop. This solution is not efficient. Is there perhaps only such a solution? DE: Ich habe eine...
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    lost old backups problem

    hi dears we lost old backups suddenly without any action on PBS, i want ask this can be happen? PBS version is 1.1-14
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    [SOLVED] Garbage collector too slow (again).

    I have read all the forum posts related to slow GC. I have to bring this topic up again and ask for help. I use PBS 2.3-2. The work of the disk subsystem does not cause any complaints. Carried out the tests: 1) with copying a single huge file. 2) unpacking their documents from the archive to...

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