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    proxmox-tape barcode-label: irreführende Fehlermeldung bei leerem Band

    Moin, es gibt da ja diesen schönen Befehl, mit dem man die gesamte Autoloaderbestückung auf einen Rutsch labeln können soll. Funktioniert leider nicht so recht mit neuen Bändern: # proxmox-tape barcode-label --drive lto5 checking/loading media 'STB001L5' WARN: media 'STB001L5' read error...
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    Unable to delete backups, No space left on device

    Hi, so, i noticed that today my BPS server storage just has filled up, i was trying to do some cleaning tasks, but here are results: 2024-02-08T13:23:34+01:00: starting garbage collection on store HDD1 2024-02-08T13:23:34+01:00: Start GC phase1 (mark used chunks) 2024-02-08T13:23:34+01:00: TASK...
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    GUIDE Change Disk.

    Hello wanted to make a guide on how to change a drive on Proxmox backup server that only has 4 drives and all using rpool as a boot device and pve storage First take the drive you want to replace offline. to identify the drive that you want to replace by going into PBS and go to Storage/Tape...
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    Backup Threat Modelling - Pruning Sidechannel

    I use both PBS and restic for backup on different systems. I'm very happy with both tools for their job. In the restic documentation I read about a possible threat and wonder how it is handles in PBS. I have not found any mention of the threat or a mitigation in the documentation of PBS. Attack...
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    Backup fleecing

    Will the new backup fleecing feature work on all storage types? LVMThin here in particular?
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    Online/Hot Backups in Proxmox

    Hi. I am new to proxmox and I just wanted to ask if there is a way to perform hot backups in proxmox. I want to avoid the downtime that I get because of having to turn off the vm while backing it up. Does PBS provide hot backups??
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    Difficulty connecting USB HDD XFS format inside unprivileged LXC

    Hello everyone, I had previously connected a USB HDD setup as a zpool and used lxc.mount.entry inside an LXC setup with Debian and Proxmox Backup Server. I got it working but one of my other drives is a single drive and the ZFS was causing errors. I followed some recommendations to try out XFS...
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    Error while installing fupdown2 version 3.2.0-1+pmx7

    Hey everyone! So I have a server at OVH in France and just installed a Debian 12 Bookworm using their installer. And I started the installation of Proxmox Backup Server 3.0.1, just as I did a few days ago on a Debian 12 Bookworm on a server at Hetzner in Helsinki (one will be the replica of the...
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    Low ZFS read performance Disk->Tape

    hi, I need some Input for troubleshooting a performance Issue I have on a Proxmox Backup Server I run. Basically it's an off-site System that syncs with a production PBS. The Specs as follows: - Supermicro Board + Chasssis - Dual E-2680v4 Xeon (2x 14c) - 128GB RAM - 2x 480gb Seagate Nytro SSD...
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    Having trouble backing up PBS VM

    I have PBS running as a VM on Proxmox and it has been working fine, backing up all the VMs (including itself) until recently, where now it can't back itself up (log below). The other VMs still back up perfectly. I started thinking, how can the PBS back itself up if it needs to freeze during the...
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    Tape Job : Cancel job after running more than x hour

    Hi, I have configured a PBS with HP LTO6 with 1 mediapool/tape per job per day Monday for Monday etc etc. But I'm not the one who spins the tapes ( not in office ) proxmox-backup-server 3.1.2-1 running version: 3.0.3 Works fine when people spins tapes , but when holiday comes and tapes are...
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    Datastore removed when disconnected from PVE

    Hello everyone. I have added a PBS datastore as directory on a PVE server. Yesterday we suffer a power outage for 8 hours and unfortunatly, the servers gone offline. When they finally came back online, i got a error 500 and i noticed that the datastore and all the data it contained, where...
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    Proxmox "lsb-release" nachinstallieren

    Hallo liebe Mitstreiter, ich habe mal wieder eine Frage. Ich würde gerne meine Proxmox Instanzen (PVE und PBS) an mein SIEM (Wazuh) anbinden, da diese relevante Teile meine Infrastruktur sind und somit besonders schützenswert sind. Dies sollte eigentlich kein Problem sein, da diese ja auf...
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    Wie PBS notification einrichten

    Hallo liebe Mitstreiter, ich würde gerne die Notification einrichten auf dem PBS, wo man einstellt wann wer Infos bekommt habe ich schon gefunden - aber wo stelle ich den Mailserver usw. ein. Mit dem Link in der Doku (https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/maintenance.html#notifications) komme ich...
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    Frage zu Backups über WAN Strecke

    Hallo liebe Mitstreiter, ich habe mal eine Frage. Ich bin vor kurzem auf Proxmox PVE mit PBS umgestiegen. In meinem Heimnetz habe ich nun alle VMs auf einem lokalen PBS gesichert (ca. 1.5 TB) und diesen nun über eine DSL (40 MBit Upload) ins RZ gesichert. Dies hat logischerweise mehrere Tage...
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    A question about backup integrity with my set up

    I have PBS running with an external USB docking station containing an 8TB drive (drive A). In order to do offsite backup rotations, what I did first was a full backup of proxmox VM's and containers to PBS 8TB drive A. I then cloned the drive to another 8TB drive B. Once I week, I shut down...
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    Questions about offsite PBS Server

    Good afternoon, all I'm wondering about the use of a PBS server as offsite backups? I understand that I would only need to forward port 8007, but would this have any security issues associated with it, i.e are the backups sent in a secure format, and is the PBS login safe to have network...
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    [SOLVED] PBS File Restore Broken

    I'm attempting to do a file restore on a backup for one of my VMs, and I get this error message in a popup with no other context, not even whatever it's referring to "above." Error: Starting VM failed. See output above for more information. I tried from the shell and that gives some more...
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    PBS Router permanent hinzufügen

    Guten Morgen, ich habe mal eine Frage bezüglich dem hinzufügen einer permanenten Route. Wenn ich eine Route wie bei https://linuxopsys.com/topics/permanently-add-static-route-in-linux angegeben hinzufüge, dann funktioniert diese bis zum neustart (z.B. ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via...
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    how to improve pbs backup speed

    Hi, I have 2 servers running Proxmox. One is for production and one is for backup. Backup server has PBS installed. However backing up to pbs seems to be quite slow even with dedicated 10Gbpbs network. I also have a TrueNAS installed on the same server and backup from TrueNAS is way more faster...

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