proxmox-backup-client

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    [TUTORIAL] Proxmox-backup-client 3.3.3 for RHEL-based distros

    Hello everyone, i have been trying to build rpm package for version 3.3.3 and after sometime/struggle i managed to get it to work. Compiling instruction: https://github.com/ahmdngi/proxmox-backup-client This guide can work for RHEL8 and RHEL9 Last Tested: at 2025-03-25 on Rocky Linux 8.10...
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    Previously working proxmox-backup-client command now fails

    Hi, I have been using proxmox-backup-client to create backups, which I can write to tapes. It's a pretty simple setup where I have a few SMB shares mounted locally (on the PBS itself), and then run a command in the style of (names changed obviously): proxmox-backup-client backup...
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    restore latest snapshot of group when using asymmetric master key pair

    I was trying to get my head around using the private/public master key pair via the proxmox-backup-client. Inspired by this post and grasgruen.it's script in it , I wanted to simultaneously create an easy to use and fast way to restore the latest file-level-backup of a given host. This is the...
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    doing an rsync from a proxmox backup mount location

    All, I have a not very happy server at a remote site that is backed up via proxmox backup client which backs up email. Due to server issues I am rebuilding from backups on a new machine. I have noticed that proxmox backup is amongst the quickist thing to scan the email directories and backup...
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    [SOLVED] PBS Backuprestore schlägt fehl: ACL invalid

    Hallo, ich versuche derzeit ein Backup eines Containers auf dem gleichen Host wieder einzuspielen, auf dem es auch erstellt wurde. Leider schlägt dies fehl: recovering backed-up configuration from 'roman:backup/ct/102/2024-09-30T00:16:20Z' Using encryption key from file descriptor...
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    Can proxmox-backup-client restore a host to another drive?

    Hello everyone, I have a 2 node cluster in my current setup. I want to use proxmox-backup-client to backup only the Hosts(Nodes) not the VMs, the VMs are already backed up to a NAS using the backup feature in VE. I already have a pbs setup where I want to backup the host and the VMs in the...
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    Backup und Restore ohne PVE

    Hi zusammen, ich kann mit dem Proxmox Backup Server auf einem Linux Host ohne PVE ein Backup auf dem PBS erstellen. export PBS_REPOSITORY='root@pam!pbsbackup@10.27.12.34:zfs-pool' export PBS_PASSWORD='mysecret' proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ Wie kann ich aber dann eine komplette...
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    Backup via Proxmox-backup-client (physical machines)

    Dear all: I'm trying to integrate our physical machines into the PBS. For the first Ubuntu machines, the first initial backups via proxmox-backup-client have succeeded -- I'll come back with build-questions for RPM-based distros! But I did not find "best practice" advice how to set up the...
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    [SOLVED] Question: Why does proxmox-backup-client skip "etc/pve" in the backup?

    Hi, I am interested to leverage proxmox-backup-client to make backups on my hosts. I read several forum posts and tutorials and have successfully created the backup. Questions: 1/ I noticed that /etc/pve is not included in the backup, nor did I specified it in the .pxarexclude file. Why is...
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    [SOLVED] Problem with proxmox-backup-client in LXC contianer

    Hi, I have a Debian 11 turnkey linux fileserver running as LXC container under ProxmoxVE8. I backup the data with proxmox-backup-client to a remote PBS3 datastore, which seems to work without problems. Login to PBS and following works: proxmox-backup-client snapshot list --ns...
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    [SOLVED] proxmox-backup-client environment variables _FILE

    Hi I'm trying to use: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#environment-variables PBS_PASSWORD_FILE=/etc/proxmox/filename1 PBS_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD_FILE=/etc/proxmox/filename2 Contents of filename1 would be "ActualPassword" (no quotes) But as soon as I run the client i get prompted...
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    Proxmox Backup Client Uninstallable on latest Ubuntu

    Both me and a coworker are getting the following error when attempting to install proxmox-backup-client on the latest version of Ubuntu: Any idea on how to best resolve this package version discrepancy? Our attempts resulted in a broken machine.
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    Inofficial proxmox-backup-client RPM builds for RHEL-based distros

    Since there is currently no official RPM build, I created automated builds of the proxmox-backup-client for RHEL based distros on Fedora's COPR. You can find the builds and further instructions here: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/derenderkeks/proxmox-backup-client/ The source for the...
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    [SOLVED] proxmox-backup-client namespace syntax

    I'm having problems with the --ns option for proxmox-backup-client. I can back up a client directory to the Root Namespace, as expected, using the following: proxmox-backup-client backup --backup-type host clientdata.pxar:/path/to/client/data --repository root@pam@192.168.1.10:8007:backups I...
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    Installed the backup client in Windows Subsystem for Linux v2

    I thought I'd experiment with using the Windows Subsystem for Linux which allows access to windows files at /mnt/c. Steps and output follow, but I am currently stuck with an error: "catalog upload error - channel closed" "Error: stat failed on "DumpStack.log.tmp": EACCES: Permission denied"...
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    Proxmox-backup-client not going/follow softlink

    Hello tl/dr: Can proxmox-backup-client "go over"/follow softlink and backup real file but not softlink? We have a daily backups windows hosts with UrBackups, then we want to geo-copy to the existing PBS on other localisation we already had. Urbackup share is mounted on PBS over NFS-readonly...
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    File Backup des CephFS

    Hallo zusammen, gibt es eine Möglichkeit inkrementell die Files auf einer Samba VM, welche das CephFS gemounted hat zu Backupen? Mit dem Proxmox-Backup-Client ist nach meiner Erfahrung immer nur eine Vollsicherung möglich. PVE (Samba VM) --> PBS. Täusche ich mich da oder gibt es hierfür etwas...
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    proxmox-backup-client --backup-time

    Hi, I wanted to add older files system snapshots to pbs using proxmox-backup-client backup Documents.pxar:Documents/2018.07.27/ --repository 192.168.1.222:store1 --backup-time `date -d 2018-07-27 +%s -u` but I get: Error: parameter verification errors parameter 'backup-time': value must have a...
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    Host file backup fails

    I have application running on gluster storage, sometimes, for various reasons, empty files are created on this storage (they might be locked by some process). When proxmox-backup-client encounters such file whole backup fails with error: Error: error at "/path/to/file": failed to read xattrs...
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    PBS --prune-backups option

    Hello i have question about --prune-backups option, this option can be set in command also can be set on storage. i want know about different between them. thanks