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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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    how to transfer backup from one proxmox to another withought clustering

    Hello, I want to transfer a backup from one server to another. However I cant find the backup files and I dont know where to restore in the new server. Where is exactly local-lvm located in proxmox and how to find the backup file? and then in the new server where i can put it and then restore...
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    restore lxc with overlay2 docker images in it

    Hi, recently i've added overlay2 module to proxmox-host, so i can easily use basic docker-cli functionality inside an lxc containers (pull/tag/push), without using runtime. But attempt to restore a container with overlay2 layers (docker images) inside fails: extracting archive...
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    Pfsense Web interface unreachable

    Hello there, I restored a previously preconfigured pfsense VM on Proxmox hoping to change in the future the existing rules contained on it, but now I’m not able to connect through the web interface to the pfsense, although I’m able to open the console of the pfsense on Proxmox and interact with...
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    Proxmox host and client: backup and restore steps

    Hi! I also read this before I post. I still new with Proxmox but I like it! :) I have a latest Proxmox server using only 1 physical (home) server with Linux software raid, mostly for: samba: file sharing: movies, music (for raspberry pi music players) and for windows notebooks for movies...
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    Cant restore unprivileged container on another node

    I can't restore unprivileged container on another node. What can I do? root@sunfish:~# pct restore 116 /mnt/pve/diskstation/dump/vzdump-lxc-116-2020_05_12-08_24_45.tar.gz -ignore-unpack-errors 1 -unprivileged --storage lvmthin Logical volume "vm-116-disk-0" created. mke2fs 1.44.5...
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    [SOLVED] Backup and Restore Much Larger

    I found this odd. I had an old Server with 2 x 1 TB SSDs setup. One Nvme and one Sata SSD setup as a Raid ZFS 1 or mirror. The Storage pool I setup with ZFS mirror is a little smaller than the new server, but contains way more VM Disks but takes up less space. It's weird. Can somebody help...
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    unable to parse volume filename

    I'm trying to restore a backup from previous proxmox installation but it fails with the following error: root@proxmox:~/vms/dump# qmrestore vzdump-qemu-101-2019_09_17-22_02_36.vma.lzo 101 restore vma archive: lzop -d -c /root/vms/dump/vzdump-qemu-101-2019_09_17-22_02_36.vma.lzo | vma extract -v...
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    Restore backup issue

    I was restoring a backup and I canceled it in the middle. It then deleted the container I was restoring and it is not viewable in the gui anywhere? How do I recover this container?
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    Restore Error

    Good afternoon everyone, my name is Jorge. I have a problem with a proxmox 5.1-41. when trying to restore a backup of a virtual machine it gives me the following error, and I can not do the recovery, and I need it because I do not have another backup. The error its...
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    Proxmox 5.2 VM stalled during restore backup

    Hi, I have problem with restoring machines on proxmox5.2 with kernel pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve. Problem is that when I restore machine from backup everything is going all right but when task gets 100% it stalled and VM machines that are running got stalled. Everything is freezing. After few...

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