pbs

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    Exclude backup directory

    I have two similar PBS LXC containers on different PVE hosts, and they both use a mountpoint from a local zpool on a separate disk(s). One of them does the right thing and avoids including the configured backup directory for itself when backed up to its own PBS instance. They both have the same...
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    Email from PBS after backup

    Hello I've a 2 nodes cluster PVE and a physical PBS. When I backup I receive one email from PVE01 and one email from PVE02. I've a service that check email log backup and signal for failed or missing job. This service can receive only and email from a single server sender. How can I've a single...
  3. B

    How much space for a PBS machine?

    Let's say I have a Proxmox system with a 8 TB VM (to store all my data, e.g. photos, videos, music etc.) on a 8 TB SSD How much storage would a backup server need to back that VM up? Would another 8 TB SSD suffice? Or do the backups require even more space? (I don't need to keep multiple...
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    Reduce log spamming when PBS is offline - (error fetching datastores - 500 Can't connect to...)

    Hi everyone, I have a PBS witch is offline and turned on only for the backup via WoL. After that, the PBS shutting down. It's working fine, but in my PVE log is spammed with an error (every 10s), because the PBS is not reachable: pve pvestatd[1890]: PBS: error fetching datastores - 500 Can't...
  5. N

    Backing Up similar VM from different Proxmox VE to a single place

    I have a use case where I have a VM(vm id = 999), that I have backed up to PBS, now I have created 10 more VMs(vmid=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) by restoring from the same PBS on 10 different Proxmox VEs, now these 11(10 + 1) VMs undergo a deploy, and now I again want to backup to PBS any one of the...
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    --all-file-systems shouldn't backup /run

    Starting backup: host/xps9310/2024-05-04T09:18:07Z Client name: xps9310 Starting backup protocol: Sat May 4 11:18:07 2024 storing login ticket failed: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must be set No previous manifest available. Upload directory '/' to '192.168.99.99:HOSTS' as root.pxar.didx skipping mount...
  7. T

    PBS Limit or Exclude VM Volume

    Is there a way to limit or exclude partitions/volumes/folders/files while backing up a VM? If so, please elaborate.
  8. D

    PVE 8.2 - Backup File Download from PBS failed

    Recently I'm getting often errors on File Downloads from PBS Backend: Starting download of file: drive-scsi0.img.fidx/part/2/var/www/ reading file extraction stream failed - error reading a body from connection: unexpected EOF during chunk size line TASK ERROR: file restore task failed...
  9. N

    [SOLVED] PBS über WireGuard erreichen

    Hallo alle zusammen, Vielleicht kann mir einer von euch bei meinem Problem Helfen. Momentan habe ich Home: 3 Nodes (als Cluster), 1 PBS, 1 Mikrotik Router Cloud: 2 Server/Nodes (als CloudCluster) Auf den 2 Cloud Nodes liegt jeweils ein CHR, welche per WireGuard mit dem Mikrotik Router...
  10. N

    PBS backup file

    Hello, What are the necessary backup files (pbs) required to perform a restore of a VM or container, and where can I find them?
  11. N

    backup files path

    Hello, I can't find the path to the backup files on my computer when accessing it via SSH. i want to copy those files so i want find the path. Best regards,
  12. T

    Extend ZFS pool on Proxmox Backup Server

    Hello everyone, So I have had my Proxmox Backup Server installed and running for about 6 months now, with a RAID1 ZFS pool of 2 HDDs of 1TB each, running like a charm. I am slowly but steadily running out of space (I have prune and GC configured), so I bought 2 2TB NAS HDDs. I already swapped...
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    PVE Sicherung sporadischer Fehler - Backup Backup of VM XXX failed - cannot determine size of volume

    Seit Wochen macht die tägliche Sicherung auf einen Cluster Knotens eines PVE 8.1.4 auf/per den PBS 3.1-4 Storage Probleme. Die VMs liegen auf mehreren NAS LUNS die per LVM/ISCSI + Multipath und 10GB eingebunden sind. Der Fehler tritt bei den VM Sicherung sporadisch auf: ERROR: Backup of VM XXX...
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    How to configure Fail2Ban for PBS

    Hello, I want to configure fail2ban also for the web-gui of PBS. I followed the wiki and it worked well for PVE. I used the systemd-variant. My PBS is installed directly on the PVE hypervisor and whatever I configure, fail2ban is not detecting failed login attempts. Maybe someone else already...
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    Are prune jobs needed if the backup job has retention settings?

    So I have backup jobs set up on the Proxmox GUI, under Datacenter and backups. Each of these jobs has retention settings defined. So is setting up a scheduled Prune job in PBS really needed?
  16. V

    Export from PBS / Import in PVE

    Hi, I have a question about exporting backups from PBS to import them into PVE. I need to do this because the backups are too large to transfer over the network (internet), so I want to copy them to an external drive, transport the drive to the other server, and then import the backups. Is this...
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    [SOLVED] ERRO CRIAR DATASTORE PBS

    ERRO PARA CRIAR DATASTORE PBS Criei um mapeamento do tipo SMB/CIFS no servidor PROXMOX e quando vou tentar montar o Datastore nesse mapeamento ele esta me retornando um erro. preciso de ajuda para solucionar. 2024-04-08T10:09:55-03:00: TASK ERROR: unable to create chunk store 'DT06_REPLICA'...
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    [SOLVED] Hypervisor kernel panic during backup to PBS

    During backups to PBS the hypervisor will do a hard crash, it is not consistent at which point it does it. Sometimes a backup succeeds, and sometimes it will not. But after a few backups 1 will fail and fully crash the hypervisor. Does anyone have any idea where I can start at debugging this...
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    Is it possible for PBS to backup Windows VMs running on PVE.

    Is it possible for PBS to backup Windows VMs running on PVE? I keep finding threads that imply PBS cannot backup Windows VMs; But then I also see threads saying the qemu agent is essential for backups. Can anyone help me understand when and how I can backup Windows VMs running on PVE? Tas
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    [SOLVED] Setting up LibreNMS on Proxmox Backup Server, missing libpve-apiclient-perl

    Hi There, Simple enough problem, there is a package that is available in the PVE repository that is not available in the PBS repository and I'm wondering if there is an alternative that I should be using which is more specific to PBS or if I need to install this package manually by running...

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