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    VM restore on coinstalled PBS and PVE host

    We are going to set up an environment with 2 servers, one for production use with PVE (PVE1) and the second with both PBS and PVE (PVE2, used for restore of PVE1 VMs in case of DR) installed. PVE1 server will backup many VMs to a datastore (datastore1) on the PBS server. The goal is to provide...
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    Unable to load chunck ... Data blob has wrong CRC checksum.

    Hi , since a few days i'm experiencing some pretty troublesome problems with my PBS. I increased the size of my datastore from 4TB to 10TB and since then, I have a lot of verify tasks that are failing. Here is one of the many failed log that i'm recieving: () 2021-11-03T02:13:50+01:00...
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    restore backup on exist vm

    Hello dears i want use from PBS backup file as image to rebuild my vm with backup image. restore command has error in this case. "VM {vmid} already exists on node" please assist me how can i do this. thnaks
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    How do I backup and restore VMs and CTs?

    Some background information: I have 1 server connecting 4 Proxmox Nodes. They were all on the 5.0 version, but I wanted to upgrade them to 6.1. I upgraded 1 node to 6.1 and I want to backup VMs from the other 3 nodes on the 5.0 version into the 6.0 version. I also do not have any internet...
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    Retrive one file from backup, .vma.zst?

    So I was too quick celebrating a move from one VM to another... I forgot ONE file. Lucky for I have backups! But every VM like this vzdump-qemu-110-2021_08_01-02_00_02.vma.zst. I read about the VMA tool but how do I unpack a .zst? Or how do I get that darn hidden file that I missed?
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    Server summary showing wrong HD space

    I update to Proxmox 7 last weekend and restored my containers and vm backup from proxmox gui, then i noticed on server summary that HD space its no showing rigth values. Let me share some data: Do you think this is a normal behaivor under proxmox 7??? or i did something wrong B/R
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    Proxmox unbootable - grub error: disk lvmid not found

    Hi, A node(Proxmox 01) in my cluster after I have to enlarge root LVM, is no longer booted. Unfortunately, I do not have a backup of root system In normal other node of proxmox looks like this: root@prox03:~# blkid |grep root /dev/mapper/pve-root...
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    [SOLVED] Mount and Restore on different server

    Hi all, I've gone through the forum here and have not quite seen the help I am requiring. I have a cluster with 4 pve nodes and 2 pbs nodes. 1 PBS node is onsite and 1 if offsite. I've setup another test pve node with PVE7 and have added the offsite PBS node to it. That works perfectly fine...
  9. powersupport

    How to update pbs client on centos standalone server

    Hi, We have a centos stand-alone server with PBS client installed, we installed the same using the below documentations https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#backup-client-usage https://github.com/sg4r/proxmox-backup-client/releases/tag/v1.0.11...
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    [SOLVED] error before or during data restore, some or all disks were not completely restored. VM xxx state is NOT cleaned up.

    PVE 6.4-5 I am trying to restore a VM from backups but get the following error error before or during data restore, some or all disks were not completely restored. VM 900 state is NOT cleaned up. TASK ERROR: unable to restore VM 900 - - protection mode enabled
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    error occured during live-restore: MAX 8 vcpus allowed per VM on this node

    Thanks for the PVE 6.4 release! The Live-Restore feature is especially interesting to me, because I've always looked for ways to make the restore faster in order to keep disaster recovery times a minimum. Situation: Main Node has 16 cores / 32 threads VM 101 has 32 vCPUs, because the database...
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    BUG: Error Restoring LXCs when from Privileged Containers

    Hi, I am very very worried because I cannot restore several LXCs from a backup done on PBS. Here is the error I get: recovering backed-up configuration from 'pbs:backup/ct/109/2021-04-18T05:00:02Z' Formatting '/mnt/p03ssd/images/109/vm-109-disk-0.raw', fmt=raw size=26843545600 Creating...
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    [SOLVED] Share encryption key between two PBS?

    Hi. I've been using PBS as a backup service of my PVE servers and it's really great. After the OVH disaster I decided to set up another server for syncing my main PBS backups. That's my current stack: PVE1 -> PVE Server (Cluster mode) PVE2 -> PVE Server (Cluster mode) PBS1-> PBS Main Server...
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    Restore LXC from PBS fails: Use 'none' to disable quota/refquota

    Hello all, I intend to restore a ct backup from pbs, however restororing fails with recovering backed-up configuration from 'pbs01:backup/ct/100/2021-03-05T00:00:01Z' Using encryption key from file descriptor Encryption key fingerprint: TASK ERROR: unable to restore CT 105 - zfs error: cannot...
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    Unable to restore a backup because of timeout when aloccate qcow2 disk

    Hi all, I need to restore a dump backup zst of a VM which has a qcow2 format. Seems that my NFS storage is not enough fast to allocate big images, so when I try to restore it, It fails when it try to format the disk image: restore vma archive: zstd -q -d -c...
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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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    Restoring encrypted backup outside the cluster

    Friends good night! I am testing PBS in parallel with the full backup of some VMs and now with the option of incremental backup I can deploy something that I would like to do for a long time. My client has some local Proxmox and 2 PVEs in the OVH cloud, my goal is to use PBS to, in case of a...
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    Lxc no network after restore

    Hello. I want to move ct from server to server (no cluster) Server where ct located (LVM): pve-manager/6.1-7/13e58d5e (running kernel: 5.3.18-1-pve) Server where I want to move (ZFS): pve-manager/6.2-4/9824574a (running kernel: 5.4.34-1-pve) I make backup of my container (stop mode). Send...
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    Lost data restoring CT backup, trying to recover. Please help.

    Took a backup of a container in PVE, changed a few configs on the original but they didn't work out. Did a restore from the backup which only restored the system vdisk, but erased the mounted data vdisk. Apparently the backup process didn't backup the /data mount. The system vdisk was mounted /...
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    Corrupt backup? Unable to restore, but backups succeed

    I have a problem right now where I tried to restore a VM to a backup that has been completing successfully, but upon restore shows as corrupted. The backup is via gzip to a NFS-mounted directory within a Proxmox node running the latest updates (Virtual Environment 6.2-11, kernel 6.2-5). The VM...

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