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    recovering a pve-zsync installation after a crash

    I have "server1" (10.0.0.1) backing up VM 502 on "server2" (10.0.0.2) with pve-zsync. I set up the process with: server1# pve-zsync create --source 10.0.0.2:502 --dest rpool/pve-zsync/daily --verbose --maxsnap 7 --name server2-backup-daily eventually, server1 blows up and I have to completely...
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    Restored VM backup, all data on mount raw image lost

    Hello Guys, i just restored a backup of a lxc container running on my pve instance. The container has a second .raw data image mounted. After restore the complete data got deleted from the .raw image. 1.) I know there was a "deletes all data of the running vm" window. I'm probably stupid, but...
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    (disaster recovery howto) Recover VM disks of running VM

    Situation : - 3 standalone nodes with VM's on XFS storage - No Shared storage. - NFS shares on all 3 nodes to eachother to restore backup files from one node to the other. (added as NFS storage, with backup files only selected in PVE) Task : - Introduce new node and setup first cluster node...
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    Recover lxc container after system SSD crash

    Hi there, since two weeks I'm trying proxmox. My setup was a / SSD using ZFS. And one raid-z2 with 5 WD Red Disks. Today my SSD crashed and isn't readable anymore. The container data are within my raidz2-pool. Booting with debug installer I could copy the folder of the subvolumes for each...
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    Unable to Recover Destroyed KVM

    Hi, I accidentally deleted one KVM VM and I don't have any backup. Now I'm trying to recover it. I'm using following procedure to recover. Step1: Cloned Proxmox Node 900GB dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/pve/backup/ Step2: Created a new virtual Proxmox Node restore Proxmox's Drive using dd. New node...
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    Mistakenly restored from snapshot. What should I do?

    Hi guys! I got into troubles now: I have my Proxmox Installation on two ssd's (raidz mirror) and one hdd that was in separate zpool, and used for backups. I got one VM on that server, with two disks inside it: system disk which was located on raidz ssd's and one volume that was used for backups...
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    server dead in pve-ceph cluster

    I have a cluster with 3 nodes which act both as vm nodes and ceph storage. node1: 1 osd, 1tb disk node2: 2 osd, 1tb disks node3: 2 osd, 1tb disks the total is 4,7 usable disks. I created a ceph pool with size 2/ min 1, so I have a single replica of my data. I've now read that it's a bad...
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    [SOLVED] Recover running machines config after joining cluster

    Hi In Proxmox 4, I added a node with 'pvecm add -force' to an existing cluster. There were 2 QEMU VMs running on the added node. Currently the VMs are running but are not present in PVE Manager. The config files are gone but I have a backup of the VMs, I don't want to restore VMs because they...
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    [SOLVED] Boot Drive Recovery Procedure

    After looking around for suitable answers to this particular question I decided to put some of the advice to the test and figure out what the procedure would be in the event my boot drive (ssd) decided to pack it in. General consensus online and on these forums state that by simply backing up...
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    What do you for Proxmox VE host backups? BareOS? Other suggestions?

    I am planning a new Proxmox VE setup and would like to know what current PVE admins are doing for backups. I also need to backup older setups and archive them. Is anyone using BareOS for host baremetal backups? It has current Debian packages and has been mentioned in other forum posts. For...

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