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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...
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    Proxmox Backup Server lokal, Proxmox beim Hoster

    Hallo zusammen, bin nicht sicher ob ich hier was übersehe: ich habe gerade einen Proxmox Server beim Hoster aufgesetzt. Den würde ich gerne mittels Proxmox Backup Server sichern, der bei mir im LAN steht und sich bisher ausschliesslich um die lokalen Server kümmert. Übersehe ich einen Weg, den...
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    Tape Job : Cancel job after running more than x hour

    Hi, I have configured a PBS with HP LTO6 with 1 mediapool/tape per job per day Monday for Monday etc etc. But I'm not the one who spins the tapes ( not in office ) proxmox-backup-server 3.1.2-1 running version: 3.0.3 Works fine when people spins tapes , but when holiday comes and tapes are...
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    [SOLVED] Backup server does not recognize M.2 drive during install

    I have been running proxmox server on the same hardware, I have a new server setup and decided to turn the old hardware into a backup server, however the backup server install doesn't recognize or see the drive to install, yet if I try to install the proxmox vm server it works just fine?? To...
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    PBS Datastore is not available

    Hey everyone, i have a running PBS with an external USB hard drive mounted under /media/usb-pbs where all backups are stored. After the system was switched off for two weeks and I changed the static IP address of the PBS, the corresponding data storage is shown as "not available" in the user...
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    bug: (debug?) Logs from a larger backup from PB client cause the task window and browser tab to become unresponsive

    I suspect this is caused partially by how task detail window in webgui is implemented, and because Proxmox backup client-initated backup is very verbose at server-side. here is screen recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq3LS00I8p8 Reproducer: 1. run proxmox backup of large enough...
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    Garbage collection skipped first phase

    Hello friends! We have a proxmox backup server 2.4-1 We recently moved from one datastore to another with ZFS We moved the chunks folder and changed the configuration settings, connected the datastore and it seemed that everything was ok, the tasks were saved, the namespaces were available...
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    Restore just 1 disk from VM

    Is it possible to restore just 1 disk out of a VM? For example, I have a Windows Server 2016 VM which separates the data drive E:\ from the C:\ Operating System. Could I just restore the Operating system or just the Data drive from PBS? Sometimes there is an error after Windows Updates and the...
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    Proxmox Backup Server

    Hello, I am using Proxmox VE with Proxmox Backup Server My backup process is built on an internal 10 gigabit network, I also use ZFS for Proxmox Backup Server with 32GB memory allocation for ARC Storage capacity 47 TB of which 40TB is occupied RAM 64GB CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @...
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    Use old backups with changed VM-ID

    Hello! i had to edit some of my VMs and change their IDs because i accidently restored a wrong, old backup with an identical VM-ID. So i changed them to be unique which actually worked pretty well. But now i realized that with the changed IDs i cannot use my previously created backups on my PBS...
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    Proxmox Backup client Error: permission check failed.

    So, i configured a pbs and i also added proxmox backup client on a standalone machine and tring to take backup from the standalone machine to the pbs and i added this script to the client machine. I create a new user which is called CBackup i added an admin permission to the datastore/JU-BACKUP...
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    Delete backup in cli or automation delete.

    Hello everyone, I had delete VM in proxmox-ve but data VM still in proxmox backup server. (many VM) I want delete many file backup with cli or automation delete. Please suggest or solution for this. Thank you very much.

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