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    Backup not possible

    Hello everyone. I hope you are doing well. I'm trying to backup a VM so I can restore it on a new Proxmox server, however after waiting an hour to copy, after 100% I got the following error: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 105 --remove 0 --storage NAS --mode stop --notes-template...
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    Restore only one VHD.

    Hello everybody, I wanted to restore only a VHD that was damaged after a fall of light in my personal lab. What would be the procedure for this? I don't see an option that allows me to do this. Can you help me?
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    error 133 failed backup - unreliable backups?

    I am running into the restoration issue that I have not seen a full fix for except manual restoration everytime. no lock found trying to remove 'create' lock error before or during data restore, some or all disks were not completely restored. VM 102 state is NOT cleaned up. TASK ERROR: command...
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    Restore of VMs with no-backup separate disks for temporary data

    For VM performance and backup optimization I use separate disks for temporary data like: - swap - logs - system temp-folders - temporary DBs (like tmpdb in MSSQL) - local backups, software packages and many other not-critical stuff Separate disks allow 4 important things: 1) Efficient...
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    Disaster recovery

    Hello to all out there ı was just trying for a disaster recovery scenario; installed proxmox ,and attached a NFS storage to that proxmox, and installed some vms into that NFS share. And later on , i want to run those vms on another proxmox server (simulating a server failure) ; how can i...
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    Failed Backup wiederherstellen

    Mit dem Titel fängt es ja schon mal sehr gut an. Wir haben ein kleines Problem: Wir müssen eine VM aus dem Backup wiederherstellen und leider sind unsere Backups failed. Warum fragen wir trotzdem? Im Backup liegen 5 SCSi Abbilder, welche ursprünglich aus einem Ceph Cluster stammen. Nur die...
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    VM Restore via the api

    I am trying to find in the api docs a way to restore a vm from a backup created using vzdump endpoint in the api. I see snapshot role back but I don't think that is what I am wanting. How do I go about doing the restore via the api. AI is telling me to use...
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    Permission problem: How restore ALL from TAPE to DATASTORE ?

    Hello world, and happy new year :-) I backup the content of a PBS datastore to a tape changer, as a secondary or emergency backup. Actually when i want to restore from TAPE to Datastore, i must select the same user that generated the original backup in the datastore. That works, but since I...
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    Umzug auf größere Disk

    Hi, ich plane meine Disk gegen eine größere zu tauschen. - Backup im Stop Mode auf NAS -- jede VM und auch jedn LCX Container - neue Disk einbauen und eine Defaultinstallation vom USB Stick aus - Proxmox hochfahren -- NFS mounten -- Restore anwerfen? Findet das System die Backups auf dem NFS...
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    [TUTORIAL] FabU: Restore a file from a vzdump/vma backup on the CLI

    Preface While I am basically sure this is documented somewhere I was not able to find a compact guide. And I was never in a situation where this was necessary... yet. What I had found is https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VMA and the man-pages of the required commands, but no “walk-through”...
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    Method to Copy PBS Backups Elsewhere?

    I'm in the process of redoing my proxmox cluster setup and PBS server. I don't want to lose the VM backed up in PBS as I'll need all that to restore to the new instances of PVE. Is it possible to connect a USB Drive or rclone or some other method to save what's in PBS' datastore and be able to...
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    failed LXC restore: ACL invalid

    Hi, pardon if is thread contains little information: I'm not a Proxmox PBS expert and I recreated the LXC from scratch since I was in a hurry. In any case, I still have the backup and can do some more tests if needed (pinging @fabian who I've seen involved in other similar threads). I break an...
  13. bbgeek17

    Veeam Silent Data Corruption

    Hello Everyone, Our development team has been super busy qualifying Veeam integration for our Proxmox customers. Using internal tools designed to test the integrity of snapshots, we're seeing that Veeam 12.2 backups of live virtual machines contain silent data corruption and that the backups...
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    Accidently Deleted /etc/pve/nodes directory without backup but I have the config.db file

    Hi there. So I f*ckep up my cluster by deleting the whole nodes directory insteand of a node04 subdir. I know It's recommended to have backups, it i son my plan but I already have staging VMs that I cant just delete and reinstall everything.But I could pick the /var/lib/pve-cluster/config.db...
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    Backup help/questions

    Hey all! Long time "Googler", first time poster. So I'm sure there are tons of threads I'm sure. However, let me tell you the story as short as I can. I had the scare of my life when my sas drive (that came with the used hardware I bought a couple years back) died last night. Now, I'm not 100%...
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    Restore with extra "state-suspend" disk not possible

    Hi all, tried to restore a backup of a VM created by the scheduled mechanism. The configuration of the backup job looks like #<div align='center'><a href='https://Helper-Scripts.com' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'><img...
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    Wie kann ich ein VM außer Backup auf anderen Proxmox VE wiederherstellen?

    Ich will VM von Proxmox1 auf Proxmox2 wiederherstellen. Ich habe Folgendes versucht: * vm mit ID 112 erstellen * Backup als unused0 Disk importiert mit "qm importdisk 112 vzdump-qemu-112-2024_05_29-01_54_27.vma.zst HDDs (mit und ohne --format raw) * Disk resize als multiple von 4 MiB (virtual...
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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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    proxmox backup client restore selected restores empty directory

    Hey there, I'm in quite a predicament right now. I desperately need PBS to work but for some reason the client is not doing what I expect: When I go to restore a directory, it only creates the parent directory but leaves it empty. The directory in the backup is in fact not empty. $ ls...
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    PVE fault