proxmox-backup-client

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    Proxmox-backup-client interactive shell: restore - where are the files?!

    Hello together i am still testing around with Proxmox Backup Server and especially the backup-client. (About the installation of the proxmox-backup-client on ubuntu, see here.) I was abled to backup some user files from a VM that i wanted to restore in another VM. Backup up the files worked...
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    Using proxmox-backup-client to backup 1.8 TB of nextcloud user's files - took 22h !

    Hello dear Proxmox, for our university's institute (law...) i had to build a new server infrastructure for VMs. Since we successfully use proxmox since a couple of years now, of course i built the new infrastructure with proxmox again: Our setup: 2 Proxmox VE nodes with local zfs (uses ssd for...
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    cookbook for building proxmox-backup-client on CentOS/RHEL 7

    Hi, I have prepared a cookbook for building the proxmox-backup-client for CentOS 7. it's available from https://github.com/sg4r/proxmox-backup-client I'm looking for information to create an rpm package for ease of deployment. thanks for other patch and commit...
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    How to mount encrypted Backup

    Hello, How is it possible to mount an encrypted Backup on our PBS? I don't understand the Syntax in the Documentation. Do I need an extra Hard Disk or can I mount it to a local directory? Thank You!
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    Global Questions

    Hi. First of all thank you for this nice project but ich have some questions. * There is a backup client for debian. Is there also one for Ubuntu or RPM based distros like RedHat and Windows? * How can i see how much space a backup need? I see for a 20Gb VM in the PBS GUI that this VM needs...
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    Importing PV of a mapped (readonly) Backup Disk Image on its original VM

    Hello, I wanted to map a disk backup to the machine it originated from. On the disk are some partitions with LVM. This brings two issues with it: The PV UUID is the same The PV does not like beeing /dev/loop0pX and would rather be /dev/sdaX which it was before the restore Usually you would...
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    [SOLVED] Need a little help with proxmox-backup-client mount

    Hello, I was poking around in the man pages for the proxmox-backup-client and discovered the "mount" command and decided to test it. Firstoff: the man page is not complete proxmox-backup-client map <snapshot> <archive-name> [OPTIONS] Map a drive image from a VM backup to a local...
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    .pxarexclude not working as expected

    I have: root@tuxmaster:/srv/pve# cat .pxarexclude /dump/* /images/* /template/cache/* root@tuxmaster:~# find / -name "vm-10001-disk-0.qcow2" /srv/pve/images/10001/vm-10001-disk-0.qcow2 Yet root@tuxmaster:~# LANG=en strace -e openat -fff proxmox-backup-client backup --include-dev /boot/efi...

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