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    PBS VM crashes on large backup

    Hi there, first roughly to my structure. I have a Proxmox server (proxmox1) with 3x3TB HDD for data as raidz1. So 6TB of usable storage. A VM with Openmediavault as data storage runs on the proxmox1. This VM has a VM disk which is 5TB in size. The VM disk is on the 6TB raidz1. For backups I use...
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    Can you mount CephFS on PBS as Datastore?

    Hello guys, we have a PBS running in our Dev-Environment with a Tape-Lib attached, but as I found out, you can only backup to tape if the backups are on a Datastore beforehand... Originally I was planning to backup directly to tape, so I deployed a 1U PBS Server that barely has enough space for...
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    Is there a way to name backups in pbs instead of ct/100?

    Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to give backups more readable names? In deafault the have type/id - thats all. I know i can use comments but the comment is just visible when i expand a backup by the plus icon. When i do have there many backups, i am searching a while to find the backup...
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    [SOLVED] How to browse the files of a VM backup

    I saw that this question shows up often but I still didn't found an answer. On PBS I can browse directly the content of a LXCs backup because it's done file-level. On the other side, VMs backups are done on the block-level so I can't directly browse their content. My final question is...
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    datastore nicht mehr verfügbar / unable to open chunk store

    Hallo zusammen, ich benötige Hilfe bei einem Problem mit dem PBS: Nach einem Update und anschließendem reboot eines nodes (PVE+PBS) ist der einzige datastore "srv2-data-bak" nicht mehr verfügbar. Kurz davor oder danach habe ich auch den Hostnamen geändert. Zunächst fiel auf, dass die backup...
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    Connecting PBS and PVE

    I got some servers running PVE and one PBS, I want to connect them with HBA fibre cards but i dont exactly know if it supports it, or even how to setup it. By now the cards are running in LPFC drivers. 06:00.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LPe12000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 03)...
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    TPM backup to PBS fails.

    Backup of VMs with TPMs to Proxmox Backup Server fails. INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 9008 --storage pbs01 --mode snapshot --remove 0 --node sddlab-08 --notes-template '{{guestname}}' INFO: Starting Backup of VM 9008 (qemu) INFO: Backup started at 2023-03-02 04:09:48 INFO: status =...
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    PBS on ZFS doesn't release space

    Hello, Does anyone know how to solve the problem of not freeing up space in ZFS? I have two physical machines: pve1 and pve2 On pve1, as you can see, there is a PROD-PBS machine that has a disk resource allocated from pve1 (practically all of it for PBS) The "backup" resource is linked for...
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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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