restore backup

I'm trying to sort out the process for restoring vzdump backups taken on server A to server B. The steps I follow are: 1) Take backup with vzdump on server A. 2) Copy .vma file from server A to a NAS over CIFS. 3) Copy .vma file from NAS to server B over CIFS placing it in /var/lib/vz/dump/ 4)...

Over the weekend I blew away two Proxmox hosts (clustered) and reinstalled the hypervisors from scratch (two single nodes). Because I had backups of everything, I thought I'd be fine to just restore the backup files and continue working. The hosts have multiple backups of most containers/VM's...

I've some troubles understanding backup/restore for a (CentOS) VM with Ceph storage, used as NFS server. Let say it is VM n. 100. I've added a hard drive to this VM (virtio1) and it is located on my ceph RDB storage. I do not want to backup this additionnal disk when I backup the VM as it is a...

Hi there, I found a problem in my backup strategy. I'm not sure what i did wrong. I have two remote proxmox nodes running 3 containers each one. The running containers on the first node are daily backed up in the second node and vice versa. The idea, is to have a restored recent version of each...

Hi, On PM4.4-18 I had to do a CT restore from backups scheduled with the GUI : - stop the CT - choose the good archive file - launch restore Then the CT totally disappear from the GUI and do not work anymore with the following message : extracting archive...

Hi, I have pve-manager: 2.1-1 (pve-manager/2.1/f9b0f63a) with KVM and OpenVZ based VMs. root@proxmox:~# uptime 10:46:12 up 670 days, 13:05, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.23, 0.17 I'd like to upgrade this server to the newest PVE 5. Is it possible to restore backups that were created on PVE...

On a pve-4.4 server, hosted VMs stalls while restoring a gz compressed backup from a nfs connected storage. According to 'top', gzip uses 20-50 %CPU (Intel Xeon E3-1270 V5 3.6GHz 8 cores), so there should still be plenty of room for pve. The OS itself does not seem to be hogged in any way, but...

Hi, Currently we are using NSF storage for Backup in the same Datacenter. We would like to back our all Proxmox VMs to different Datacenter. Are there any replication software available like VMware vSphere Replication? What you guys are using and what is your suggestion? Any advice and...

Hello, i can't boot a Centos KVM VM form a vzdump backup done on a pve 3.4-6 to last version: No error on vzdump log: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- less vzdump-qemu-103-2017_02_02-06_20_08.log Feb 02 06:20:08 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 103...

Hello All , I did backup CT from version 3.1 and try to restore it on 4.3 , The problem is that the status show "No Content" for very long time and I can not tell what the status is. In previous backup vm (not ct) from the same proxmox ver 3.1 , the restore was ok show is status with percent...

Hi When trying to restore a couple of backups I get the following. " trying to aquire lock...TASK ERROR: command 'lzop -d -c /media/cm-back01/dump/vzdump-qemu-201-2016_08_19-21_30_02.vma.lzo|vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp70381.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp70381' failed: can't lock file...