proxmox backup server

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    Can't install PBU because of firmware

    Hi, I am trying to install Proxmox Backup Server on my Server, but I keep getting this error message: Things I have tried to solve this: Verified ISO is not corrupted Made sure that the USB is working (it can install Ubuntu without Problems) Connect the SSD to my PC and install PBU from...
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    Restoring a Backup to all original drives on the VM?

    Okay, This has been a recurring problem for me. I have multiple drives attached to my trueNAS vm. I back these drives up to my PBS on the same network, and this works! I'm able to backup the whole 4.7TB of data without issue. However the issue occurs when I begin to Restore to the node. I have...
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    Configuring VLANs

    I am trying to get VLANs setup. I made another section for it the way I knew how with just auto eno4.10 and configured the IP under that one, but that didn't work. I tried looking for it in the documentation and I couldn't find it. Sorry if that is my fault, but I got really tired of looking for...
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    backup@pbs != root@pam - How do I fix this

    Hi. My pbs server was originally set up without a separate user. I just used root to access it from my pve server. I had to reinstall pve completely. But instead of attached pbs using root@pam, I setup user backups@pbs. But ever since then, all of the previously restored VMS/CTS from the...
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    network shared storage

    so ive been using PVE for a few months and decided to take the plunge and get proxmox backup server installed as everyone has been telling me how amazing it is. after installation it looks very familiar to PVE, however, i noticed there is no option in the GUI to add network shared storage, i...
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    Scheduled backups are failing suddenly (but work when I do them manually)

    My automated backups fail due to a free space error, but the disks are far from full. When I invoke a manual backup to the same storage, it works fine. Here are the emailed logs from both situations. The backups are heading to a PBS instance running as an unRAID container which has an external...
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    Recovering files from a backup

    При попытке восстановить файл из резервной копии, возникает ошибка:CID '11' в использовании, но достигнуто максимальное количество попыток, прерывание (500). Но изначально оказалось, что необходимо установить компонент restore-image
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    Installing Proxmox Backup Server on two PVE nodes

    Hi Everyone, This might be sounds dumb, but what happen when we install two PBS inside Two PVE on one cluster? So that they can backup each other? any advice on how possible is this? can i install PBS as VM inside each PVE? Many Thanks
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    "backup failed: connection error: not connected" when attempting to use PBC with Metadata backup

    Hi all, I'm attempting to do a file based backup using PBC using the metadata backup. I have several backups, all targeting different folders on a NAS mounted with CIFS. I'm running PBC on the actual PBS machine itself, so it's connecting to "itself." All of my backups are configured...
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    Proxmox VE <-> Proxmox Backup Server trust issues

    I'm working with an existing PVE and a new PBS. I have self-signed certs that I've installed on both machines - to allow https. I installed them via the filesystem, following a process of replacing the certs with a cert chain, key, and CA cert, then running `pvecm updatecerts` and restarting...
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    How to sum up all occupied space by backups from namespaces

    Hi, i have structure of pbs - see below. I want to know how much space ocuppied customer1,2,3 etc... by their namespaces because we group their machines there. Is my code correct or just something missing ? root@proxmox-backup:/mnt/datastore/internal/ns/customer1/ns# find -type f -name...
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    Try to use termproxy via Python and websockets

    I'm trying to connect programmatically in Python with the webshell over API. I first get an auth_ticket from API endpoint proxmox.access.ticket and a shell_ticket from API endpoint proxmox.nodes.localhost.termproxy. I can successfully connect via websocket and the first message should be the...
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    purge backup single vm

    I would like to delete all the backups of a VM made with Proxmox Backup leaving only the last 7, currently I have not found a way to do it individually, but only for all VMs, I have not found any way even from SSH, can anyone help me?
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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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    PBS cifs smb share not mounting on cold boot

    Hi Folks, Hope everyone is doing well! Also thanks to anyone willing to help, I really appreciate it! So, I have been stuck on this for a while and I am banging my head against the wall at this point... I set up ProxMox Backup Server with a TrueNas SMB share following this tutorial...
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    Backup job with several VMs fails when using GPU passthrough

    I have a backup job set up in my data center that backs up 4 of my VMs to a Proxmox Backup Server. 3 of those 4 VMs are set up to passthrough the same GPU (hence, they can't be run in parallel). This seems to be an issue when backing up as the backup for the first VM with that GPU succeeds but...
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    PBS and OMV on the same Host?

    Hi there, I have a PVE running with several services like NGINX Proxy Manager, Nextcloud, Adguard, Jellyfin and so on. Untill now I realized my Backups on the same Host but now I plan to setup a dedicated Host for the Backups in a Server Case with 4 Hot Swap Bays. But my vision is to use 2 of...
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    Tape backup is very slow

    I just tried the tape backup of the Proxmox Backup server, but the transfer speed is very slow. (Max 60 MB/s) I also use the same tape with Bareos and there I found out that setting the tape block size to 1 MB made a sigificant performance improvment. (From under 100 MB/s to over 300 MB/s) Is...
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    Edit backup job via CLI

    Hi guys! I wonder how to edit existing pbs job via cli? I can create tasks with pvesh but how abiut editing them? For example I need to transfer couple of hundreds backup jobs from one datastore to another. How do I do that?
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    de-duplication with encryption inside vm

    Hello, I was hoping to get some clarity about backups and encryption from inside a vm. If I encrypt a debian vm with luks on lvm, will this interfere with proxmox backup server de-duplication, pruning, etc? To clarify, the encryption in not happening in proxmox, but within the vm. Any other...