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Hi everyone, I'm looking for a method to put a virtual machine into a backup state on Proxmox, allowing me to safely copy its files without interrupting its operation. I prefer to avoid using the default dump tool or backup utility, as I intend to create my own backup solution. If anyone has...

Hi there snapshots stucked like this on 1 VM, never ends

When I create a snapshot of a VM: a) is that a backup? b) will it back up all my virtual disks? E.g., If I have a virtualized storage server will it back up the vdi that I set up for bulk storage along with the boot vdi? Thanks.

Hello, I'm new to the forum and new to using Proxmox, I have a problem that from time to time automatic backups are made with the "@--head--" mark (what is that? :) ), they take up space and I can only delete them from the terminal, but after some time they appear again. Could someone tell me...

Scenario: 2x Clustered Servers, with StorageZFS replicating between them. Problem: When performing the Snapshot of VM 108, several VMs crashed, and I had to reset to go back. Error log: Jun 19 09:24:25 pve02 kernel: [10160562.899184] debugfs: Directory 'zd112' with parent 'block' already...

Coming from this thread: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/understanding-storage-requirements-for-snapshots.128444/ I'm looking for a way to do backups of running VMs without downtime. The idea is to have a full backup, that can be moved to other parts of a cluster, or different proxmox...

Reading these articles: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Live_Snapshots and https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage Basically tells me "snapshots is something you can do" but nothing more. Recently I tried doing a snapshot and got this as output: If I check with lvs I do see it in the output: On...

Hi all, I've encountered an issue when I try to take a snapshot of a VM or CT where the disk as moved to a shared NFS storage. In the Snapshot section there is a warnings: The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots A screenshot below: This is the root disk...

Let's say I have a VM that's a clean version of the OS, snapshot with the name "clean". I then patch it with the latest patches. I now want to "move" the "clean" snapshot to point to the patched state. At the moment the only safe way to do that is to snapshot the patched state with a new name...

Hi since 2 weeks i cant create any snapshots for any VM i created on my proxmox server. I dont know what to do because running the snapshot in GUI or CLI results in zfs error: cannot create snapshot 'SSD_ZFS/vm-<ANY_ID_HERE>-disk-0@<CHOOSE_ANY_SNAPSHOTNAME_HERE>': dataset already exists Even...

Hi all, I've been trying to follow online tutorials of taking snapshots of VMs and to do this it requires the disk to be a file level storage (except lvm-thin(according to documentation). So whenever I use ZFS as the disk and then create a VM, it still doesn't allow me to change the format...

Hi, we have a Proxmox cluster with CEPH. Can we somehow enable automatic snapshots like with ZFS? https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot If yes, how does it work?

Hi all, I've had a look through the threads for users who have experienced the same issues with being unable to take snapshots on VM's, however, my VM's are using the qcow2 virtual disk format. It weirdly seems limited to just the Windows Servers, however, Windows 10 Pro and Linux servers seem...

I'm about to make some big changes to my Proxmox installation (I'm going to try VGPU Unlock), and I would like to be able to revert back to my present state if something goes wrong. Since I've installed Proxmox in a ZFS file system, is there any way to do what I want?

Dear Community, We are using several Proxmox servers and we have some random issues with Windows VMs (Windows 10 & Windows Srv 2019, 2022) when VMs dies during backup and/or taking snapshots. No issues with any Linux VMs or LXCs. It happens on multiple servers but mostly on Intel Xeon E5-26*...

Hello everybody! I have a problem with my second hard drive in Proxmox. This is not displayed correctly in my opinion. As you can see in the pictures, the free space varies between 300GB and 600GB. On the hard disk there are two VMs which have 1x500GB and 1x64GB + 1x snapshot. Due to my storage...

Hallo Leute, das es immer wieder mal vorkommt das man Daten von ner halben Stunde oder 10 Minuten benötigt, hab ich mich mal über ZFS-Autosnapshot hergemacht um genau diesen Bereich und das Theme Verschlüsselungstrojanern abzudecken. Ich hab für mich einen Mittelweg gefunden um dies auf...

Yes, I know snapshots are not backups...:) In VSphere/ESXi, snapshots continue to grow as more and most data is changes since the last snapshot. VMware documentations says to not keep snapshots around for more than 3-5 days. If you go too long, coalescing (merging) the snapshot into the...

Sometime last year I found that when snapshotting a running container with mariadb would cause the database to be unable to complete any queries - the process was running but queries just stacked up. It was as if the fs was missing briefly but could not recover. It was assumed it was a mariadb...

I have a NFS mount (10.50.1.220:/volume2/Netbackup1/Cluster_1_Backup/proxmox-24) pointed at /mnt/pve/volume2Snapshots which I would like to save VM snapshots to. I noticed in the WebGUI, when taking snapshots there is no option to select the storage device and the snapshots are saved to whatever...