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    [SOLVED] LXC Snapshot greyed out on LVM-Thin

    I have a host version: Kernel Version Linux 4.4.44-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 4.4.44-84 (Thu, 9 Mar 2017 12:06:34 +0100) Where the snapshot feature is greyed out. The containers are on an LXC thin pool so it should work. The only difference compared to the working hosts is the pve version (4.4.19 VS...
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    qcow2 corruption after snapshot or heavy disk I/O

    Hi, we were just facing this really odd trouble here, and wondered if anyone was experiencing the same or has any answers: - Virtual Environment 4.4-12/e71b7a74 on supermicro server hardware with LSI RAID Adapter. RAID1 with two 3 TB disks, no errors in Raid, no Errors in (ECC) RAM -...
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    Does passing through harddisk disable the vm's snapshot functionality?

    Does passing through harddisk disable the vm's snapshot functionality? Hi, I have a vm, used to be able to take snapshots fine. But now the snapshot button is greyed out. The only special point I can think of is it has passing through harddisks. So with passing though hd, can I still do...
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    Snapshot backup forces a stop of the VM

    Hi, I recently noticed that in the morning my VM's are all down. When looking at the logs of the backups, it seems that the snapshot backup is shutting down the VM's. I'm currently running the latest Proxmox version: root@proxmox:~# uname -a Linux proxmox 4.4.35-1-pve #1 SMP Thu Dec 22 14:58:39...
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    [SOLVED] Convert to LVM-Thin without losing data

    Hello, I'm new with proxmox , i have an LVM Storage and i want to migrate to LVM-Thin without losing my machines , is there any option ? My storage is /dev/hd2 which is 1.8 T.Byte and i'm using 500GB . Have you any idea about how to migrate without losing my data ? Because it's in production...
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    [SOLVED] Need Help - vgremove removes my machines ?

    Hello Evrybody , I'm new with proxmox but i really liked it , but now i have a little problem : snapshots are disabled (can't even click it) for some VMs (who are located in a virtual disk ab1 that i made using vgcreate so he's not in the pve disk) but in the machines on the pve disk can be...
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    command 'delete-drive-snapshot' failed - this feature or command is not currently supported

    On pve-manager/4.3-10/7230e60f, I can not delete a snapshot from a VM. It show this error: VM 100 qmp command 'delete-drive-snapshot' failed - this feature or command is not currently supported And later, I can not make new snapshots. It shows this error: VM 100 qmp command 'savevm-start'...
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    ceph don't seem to be able to do linked clone, and full cloning is slow

    the gui only offers Full Clone for VMs on ceph volumes; ceph should be able to create linked clones fast and easy (as well as light snapshots, by the way). Full Clone creation doesn't seem to use ceph and thus extremely slow. PVE full clone was created in 43 minutes, while doing it in the...
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    Can't take a snapshot of a full cloned VM

    I created a full clone of VM, but for some reason while it runs fine I can't snapshot it? Any ideas why? Thanks!
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    Activate Snapshot LXC / Rename ZFS snapshot

    Hello, i have this zfs snapshot replication on a backup server: rpool/BACKUP 537G 1001G 96K /rpool/BACKUP rpool/BACKUP/subvol-100-disk-1 537G 1001G 420G /rpool/BACKUP/subvol-100-disk-1...
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    KVM live snapshot

    Hi, I've readed some posts and forums (proxmox and out of proxmox docs), but I cannot seem to get the answer. KVM is supposed to have live snapshot, but in all my 4 kvm VMs whenever I create or delete a snapshot, the VM gets completely locked. It doesn't accept connections, ssh drops if I...
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    Solved: ZFS snapshot - Unable to automount

    Hi, I receive this warning Jul 27 20:56:35 backup kernel: [87320.997852] WARNING: Unable to automount /var/backup/.zfs/snapshot/2016-07-27-190000/rpool/fkdms/subvol-100-disk-1@2016-07-27-190000: 512 while trying to access a zfs snapshot inside an lxc container. The zfs dataset is bind mounted...
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    Snapshots deleted but no space reclaimed

    Hi all, I have an instance of proxmox running on a local disk with 4TB in a RAID 10. I have a virtual windows server (2012r2) with a disk of 2TB The Virtual Image is located in /var/lib/vz/images/101/vm-101-disk-1.qcow2 In the past I've done snapshots before major updates to roll back in case...
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    insufficient free space

    I can't create a snapshot. vgdisplay I have 97 GB free space. Why I can't create a snapshot with 5 GB?
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    Snapshot taken. How to restore?

    Hello, Greeting from new member :) I'm running Proxmox 4.2 HA. I'm taking live snaphot from all of the running KVM from the GUI. The result is vzdump-qemu-kvmid*.vmz.lzo. I'm using qcow2. How to test or verify that the backup file is fine or not? I would like to test restore but this is a...
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    Snapshot storage location

    Hello, I've noticed snapshots are typically stored in the same folder as the actual VM (/var/lib/vz/images/{vmid}) but not for my Windows snapshots. They are not to be found there. So where are they stored exactly?
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    Local Backup using pve-zsync

    Hello, i have one server with Two Raid1: First Raid 1 on 2 SSD with my VPS Second Raid 1 on two sata HD for backup. I would like to use pve-zsync localy for incremental backup: is correct set this conjob ?: 30 06 * * * root pve-zsync sync --source 1000 --dest 127.0.0.1:STORAGE/SNAPSHOT...
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    Can i Remove Backup Snapshot

    Hello, after a Kill -15 of the Backup process ( hang ) of an LXC vps, now i have a snapshot: pct listsnapshot 100 vzdump no-parent vzdump backup snapshot current no-parent no-description On web interface i see an icon with a "clock" vzdump no...
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    Backup Stop / Snapshot Hybridification Question

    Does / can Proxmox on a suitable file system (ex. ZFS), when using the Stop method of backup, have the ability to STOP the vm, snapshot the disks, start the vm, and then backup the snapshot? If Proxmox doesn't, could it? Would there be any reasons against this? Reasons for - 100% data...
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    Use PVE-zsync to have daily/weekley/montly backup

    Hello, can i use PVE-zsync to have daily, weekly and montly backup ? i have think to set this cron: ## Backup of Last 6 days 0 3 * * * pve-zsync sync --source 100 --dest 192.168.1.2:tank/backup --verbose --maxsnap 6 --name daily ## Backup of Last 3 weeks 30 2 * * 0 pve-zsync sync --source 100...

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