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  1. N

    Restoring CT backup deletes&recreates non-backuped storage subvolume

    Hi, I tried to restore a CT from a local backup, but while restoration of the CT itself worked fine, my data storage volume (mp1) was deleted in the process. Additionally the 1T storage was recreated on `local` with 1T, but it was obviously empty. My data storage is not in the backup. At the...
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    Would this easy (host) backup-restore method work?

    Hi I am on the lookout for an easy and not too space consuming way to backup of my Proxmox host. I have been looking at Clonezilla but this method isn't ideal for me as my Proxmox is installed on a mirrored zfs pool and thus Clonezilla only supports full-disk (200GB in my case) backups...
  3. powersupport

    How to upgrade pbs client in centos?

    Hi, the current version is 1.0.11, May I know how we can update the client? is there any documentation available for Centos standalone server? We have already tried the KB below, https://github.com/sg4r/proxmox-backup-client/blob/main/pbs.build.sh We have tried to rebuild with a different...
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    How to restore from an 'extracted' vma backup

    After backing up a VM what I do is to 'extract' the VMA file to a directory that is then backed up by restic. (This makes deduplication possible with restic). The original VMA is deleted at the end. All this is done automatically with scripts. What I get in the directory is something like this...
  5. L

    How to restore previous OSD of ceph?

    How to restore previous OSD of ceph? To study ceph I have a cluster of 3 servers. Having created ceph, ceph osd, cephfs everything is fine. Then I simulate the situation of restoring proxmox ceph through "pvceph purge". Reinstall ceph, monitor. But how do I see the previous OSD? After all, they...
  6. J

    [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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    VM Disk zerstört kurz nach PBS Backup

    Liebe Proxmox Community heute Nacht lief eine VM nach dem täglichen PBS Backup nicht mehr. Setup: PVE 6.3-2 PBS 1.0-1 betroffene Windows Server 2016 VM 2 virtuelle Disks auf ZFS Storage OS Disk 40GB Data Disk 1.5TB Backup mittels PBS incremental Snapshot QEMU Bitmap Meine Diagnose ergab...
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    [SOLVED] Restore VMs and CTs without the original Drive

    Hello, my main Hard Disk Drive has gone and all of my CTs / VMs on it. But I have several backups on my Proxmox Backup Server, but can't restore it because my main drive is broken. And if I try it it will delete the vm / ct after the error. /etc/pve/storage.conf (Server-HDD-400GB is broken...
  9. B

    Copying a virtual machine onto a pc/laptop

    Thank you so much for this wonderful environment that you have created. I've been reading over the thread and have been unable to find the answer. How can I backup an Ubuntu OS virtual machine onto a drive and run it as the OS of a laptop? My server unfortunately prefers sine wave ups which is...
  10. B

    LXC container will not start

    while attempting to setup learning more about containers I made my DNS file on my container immutable inside of the container ( I was trying to get localdomain dns resolution working). After rebooting i now cannot start my container, knowing the issue is the DNS file in the container itself am i...
  11. L

    pbs-restore performance optimization (parallelization)

    Hey guys, thanks for the release of Proxmox Backup Server! PBS looks very promising in regards to what our company needs: Incremental backups of our VMs, e.g. every 15 minutes Flexible retention cycle, e.g. keep last 8, keep 22 hours, ... One pushing PVE client, several backup servers pull...
  12. Z

    failed: storage 'local-lvm' does not exist restore qmrestore local-zfs

    Hello, I try to restore machine (.vma) that not exist on new proxmox machine, error message failed: storage 'local-lvm' does not exist the command qmrestore /media/usb/vzdump-qemu-128-2020_11_05-09_56_08.vma 106 cat storage.cfg dir: local path /var/lib/vz content...
  13. Y

    Restoring failed

    After trying to restore zst backup I got: TASK ERROR: unable to restore CT 606 - command 'set -o pipefail && cstream -t 41943040 | lxc-usernsexec -m u:0:100000:65536 -m g:0:100000:65536 -- tar xpf - --zstd --totals --one-file-system -p --sparse --numeric-owner --acls --xattrs...
  14. G

    proxmox unstable when performing restore

    Dear Community, I tried to restore a backup (container) and it always fails and the whole proxmox interface gets unresponsive. Could you please suggest which logs should I check? thanks Gergo
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    Best Practise: 'VM's running in ZFS file system or 'Directory'

    HI, I'm fairly new to Proxmox and ZFS. As you can see in the screenshot below, I have set up 2x pools named 'storage' and 'vm'. In each pool, I have set up files systems with different configs for each filesystem. In Proxmox my place to store backups is set up just as a directory under the...
  16. H

    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...
  17. K

    Updating a network config on a restored VM

    Hi there, I’m a newbie on Proxmox and Linux too. I have a little network where I work, this network is connected via VPN with the main servers located far away where all the net services resides, similar to my case exists other nodes with the same configuration. The connection between these two...
  18. F

    can you recover a VM without backup?

    Good morning, I tried to update ProxMox, but the system got corrupt, now I have a VM that I had not yet backed up, I wanted to know if I could somehow recover it? In the /dev/pve folder I found all the files, but there are 2 for VM, how do I do it? Those in the photos are the VM files that I...
  19. H

    NFS Container - RAW File Container - Backup & Restore

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe folgende Frage. In PM 6.1-8 habe ich einen NFS Storage (liegt auf meiner QNAP NAS) für den Inhaltstype "Container" erstellt. In einem Test LXC habe ich dann einen Mount Point erstellt, wo ich auf den oben beschriebenen NFS Container zugreife. Als Größe habe ich mal 500...
  20. J

    Backup and restore VM with 3 disks

    Hello! I have a proxmox cluster with 2 nodes. I the First node I have a VM that has 3 disks. Every virtual disk is on the different physical disks. I want to back it up and then restore it to the other node. The problem is that I do not know what the system will do with the disks. Do I need the...

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