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    PBS better on a NAS or PVE host?

    YES, I AM WELL AWARE THAT NEITHER IS SUPPORTED, pretty much nothing in my lab is ;), no need to tell me this 5 times. My own system, used only by me, if I break it or lose data, I won't come crying here, I promise. On some of my systems, I'm running PBS on the same host as PVE, and this works...
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    S3 Backup support

    Hi, i've already announced it on reddit, now many fixes have been done since then I've developed with the help also of some contributors a proxy that will expose PBS api using S3 as backing storage https://github.com/tizbac/pmoxs3backuproxy Advantages: - Much more reliable, no s3fs fuse etc ...
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    [SOLVED] PBS stops responding on update

    Running the latest PBS as a stand-alone I've ran into an issue then machine becomes unavailable. Both console and network no longer respond. Sometimes console seems sluggish to respond, then stops. My observation and impression is this is after proxmox-backup-daily-update ran. To that end I...
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    vzdump namespace support when used with pbs.

    Hello, Currently vzdump on PVE has no namespace support, but instead relies on having the backup storage linked with a namespace in the storage configuration. While this is probably a perfectly fine option for some. In our case this would mean we need to connect roughly 600 storage drives to...
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    Using PBS as 4th Ceph node in 3-node Proxmox cluster

    Good afternoon. In my homelab I want to make a 3-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph. I also want to add a 4th separate host with PBS for backups. Each node in the Proxmox cluster will have an SSD for a 3/2 replicated Ceph pool for VM/CT disks. I also want to add a spinning HDD to each node for...
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    Mirrored VDEVS striped + GC > SSD / NVME usage

    Hello everyone! We currently have a PBS server in ZFS with a mirror pool (2 x 4TB HDD 7200trs 128mo cache). We would like to add a second one to that pool (mirrored vdevs striped) in order to gain performance (RAID10-like). Our idea is also to improve Garbage Collector performance (maximizing...
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    Proxmox Cluster Improvements Ideas / Questions for small business

    We moved the hardware we had on-hand to Proxmox a year ago and now looking ahead to what's next (Fine tuning, improve reliability, and best practices). This is for a small business of around 10 users with a small amount of data (1.5 TB). The data is mostly spreadsheets, documents, and Access...
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    Backups are not being encrypted via backup-client-script

    Hello, we have a script that we setup to use the backup-client on a external servers which simply calls the backup-client exports the encryption key and password and then selects the diretories we want to backup. This script works fine on all of our servers except one server. The backups do...
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    I am looking for a more suitable backup method

    I have a question about backing up containers and VMs in a proxmox environment. My Proxmox VE server is running on a Minisforum MS-01 which has two 2TB SSDs and one of these disks has not been initialized yet. I am currently running backups using the Proxmox Backup Server, which is running in a...
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    [SOLVED] Install on a VM and then migrate to pyhsical server

    Hi I am just about to buy a community licens for PBS and run it in a VM to shared storage (NFS). The idea is to test around and see how it works and then later migrate to a physical server that has both the same NFS but also a new NFS dedicated for the backups. Is it possible to migrate config...
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    Backup very slow

    Hello I've a PVE and a PBS new . I've a job from PVE to PBS . In a day I've added a NFS storage to PBS for a second destination and the same day a disk was with a smart error with 8 sectors. Replaced and resilver disk. I've added a Job in PVE to make backup in NFS and first Job it lasted 4...
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    [SOLVED] pbs backup - stack overflow

    hi, after upgrading from 8.2.2 to 8.2.4 backups of one random lxc container stopped working, on this node there are 14 lxc containers, backup of 13 working fine, only one have problem (size of lxc with problem is 110GB, but it should not be issue, i have also 200, 320 and 340 gb, and backup...
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    PBS Performance improvements (enterprise all-flash)

    I have just replaced our backup server with a Dell machine running a pair of 8 core Xeon Gold 6144's with 512GB of RAM, and 24 x 12G 7.68TB SAS SSD's in a hardware RAID 10 on a Dell PERC H740P (I have tested ZFS as well via HBA mode). The PBS box has a pair of 40Gb NIC's in a LACP to our Nexus...
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    Resilver very slow

    Hello I've a PBS based on a DELL T140, 2 M2 for OS, 4 x HDD Seagate ST8000 8TB . Replaced an HDD with 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors and resilver. Resilver is very slow: volume is 23TB but data are only 2.5TB. In 4 hours 135 resilvered. Why is it too slow ? My best regards
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    Backup based on tags

    Hi Proxmox community, Is ist possible to control the PBS backup based on tags for vm's? Example: vm101 - tag: debian, fileserver, weekly vm102 - tag: windows, ad, daily vm103 - tag debian, test, none Our idea: PBS shall read the tags of the vm's automatically and perform the backup of the...
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    Backup mit langsamer Geschwindigkeit

    Ich habe einen PVE Node, auf dem der PBS direkt mit installiert ist. Aus mir nicht erklärbaren Gründen ist der Backup Vorgang sehr langsam. PBS und VM Storage sind auf dem selben Volume. PVE 8.0.3 PBS 3.0-1 proxmox-backup-client benchmark gibt folgendes aus...
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    Inconsistent SSL error (routines:: wrong version number)

    I am currently setting up a Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) to store my Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) backups. When I tried to add the PBS as a new storage location, I encountered the following error: create storage failed: pbs1: error fetching datastores - 500 Can't connect to...
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    VM shutdown when trying to do a backup !

    Igot this error backup and the vm turns off INFO: trying to get global lock - waiting... INFO: got global lock INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 124 --notes-template '{{guestname}}' --quiet 1 --prune-backups 'keep-last=3' --mode snapshot --storage pbs--ovh --mailnotification always INFO...
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    Removing backup but my disk still saturated !

    Hello, Removing backup but my disk still saturated ! Any one can help ? Best regards,

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