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  1. UdoB

    [TUTORIAL] 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”...
  2. T

    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...
  3. D

    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...
  4. 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...
  5. B

    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...
  6. M

    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%...
  7. B

    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...
  8. V

    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...
  9. V

    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...
  10. S

    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...
  11. R

    PVE fault

  12. E

    [SOLVED] Restore von VM - Host hängt

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe ein Problem beim Restore von VM (Proxmox VE 7.4-3). Der Host ist ein HP ProLiant DL380 Gen10 2x2.9 Ghz 16 cores mit 512GB RAM und 6 x 1.9TB SSD im RAID6, das Netzwerk ist mit 10GBE angeschlossen. Die Last liegt im Schnitt bei 2.5 bis 3, CPU bei 10% und RAM ist zu 45%...
  13. A

    [SOLVED] Problems after upgrading 7.X to 8.X. Can't file restore via PBS

    Hi! Everything was ok, but when i upgrade proxmox from 7.x to 8.x, i can not use file restore option in backup. When i'm trying to restore file, i've got message - "VM exited before connection could be established (500)" Log from /var/log/proxmox-backup/file-restore/qemu* Packages version: 1...
  14. G

    restore failed: OpenSSL error

    Hello, Having this error when trying to restore VM from PBS on the same network. `restore failed: OpenSSL error` Here is the full log : Using encryption key from file descriptor.. new volume ID is 'local-zfs:vm-4120-disk-0' restore proxmox backup image: /usr/bin/pbs-restore --repository...
  15. F

    Restored a VM from Backup and it has no hard disk

    Recently i had restored a VM from a backup, id restores without hard disk, in addition to this when i try to restore it again it gives the following error "TASK ERROR: command 'set -o pipefail && zstd -q -d -c /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2024_03_17-14_41_03.vma.zst | vma extract -v -r...
  16. O

    Missing .conf files from old installation

    Hello all, I've recently (as in 2 days ago) switched motherboards since my last one seems to have been destroying HDDs. I had a perfectly working Proxmox 7 installation with a desktop and everything. Now, that installation won't boot on my new motherboard (it gets stuck at "Loading initial...
  17. J

    [SOLVED] Backup & Restore LXC container to new Proxmox server issues

    Yesterday, I backed up and restored a LXC container to a new Proxmox VE 7.4-17 server using the information in these two resources and it was a new "template" on the new server. Both servers are running Proxmox VE 7.4-17...
  18. J

    Error bei Restore aus Backup "Cannot mkdir: No space left on device"

    Hallochen in die Runde, es gibt ja diesen Fehler, dem schon einige sinnlos aufgesessen sind und auch ich brauchte jetzt 2 Tage um zu kapieren, was hier schief läuft. Wäre es möglich, dass man den Entwicklern hier mal einen Schups gibt, dass im GUI beim "Zurückspielen" eine weitere Option mit...
  19. S

    [SOLVED] Cannot do restore from one node to another in a cluster.

    So I've got three nodes, when I try to restore a Container from node to node, I get this error: recovering backed-up configuration from 'local:backup/vzdump-lxc-556-2023_11_29-18_01_03.tar.zst' mounting container failed TASK ERROR: unable to restore CT 305 - cannot open directory...
  20. J

    Proxmox Backup Server restored. Unable to restore old backups

    Hello everyone, I am having difficulty restoring my backups.Unfortunately, the error message isn't helping either: recovering backed-up configuration from 'restooooooore:backup/ct/102/2023-11-26T18:49:00Z' Formatting '/var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-0.raw', fmt=raw size=8589934592...

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