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We are seeing intermittent vzdump tar failures for LXCs hosting Postgres and ArcGIS applications. It appears the tarball is failing while attempting to tar runtime/temporary application files. The error message produced reads, "Cannot stat: Structure needs cleaning". The host filesystem...

Hello. I'm in the process of migrating all my VMs and containers from version 3.3.5 and 4.x of proxmox to version 5.4. On several occasions, I have run into errors on restore: tar: ./usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ndg/httpsclient/test/scripts/openssl_https_server.sh: Cannot create symlink to...

When creating a new container, if the "unprivileged" box is ticked, the container cannot be backed up. Restoring a container as "unprivileged" means that it won't start. Backing up VMs and "priviledged" containers works. Hlep ... PVE 5.4-6 Clustered. One node from two has this problem. Node...

Hello everyone, I'm testing borgbackup to copy our backups to some off-site storage. With the normal tar file and following ones, the deduplication isnt as effective as it could be. When I extract the vzdump and inserting every file one by one its much more space efficient. My question is now...

Hi, I just got this TAR warning when I restored an LXC backup to a new Proxmox server (5.3) : $ sudo pct restore 1011 /home/.DATA1/BACKUPS/dump/vzdump-lxc-1011-2019_03_22-23_24_38.tar.lzo --storage disks --force true (...) extracting archive...

It's all about time. The time server spent on doing backups. The time we spent on recovering files. So my three question: 1. Is this possible to do compressed backup without tar? Is tar really needed this days? 2. I think that tar is my bottleneck when doing backups (it uses only one core of...

So I use gzip to as the backup format for all my containers when saving them into tar files, but I also noticed a "vzdump-lxc*-.tmp" directory found in /var/lib/vz/dump and stood out amongst all the ".tar.gz" files so I am wondering what this is, and why is it a directory unlike the tar files...