vzdump

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    Backup VM to another Disk (ask for advice)

    Hi, everyone. I am new Proxmox user. I have 2 Dell R740 servers. Both have 4x 4TB HDDs. I want to make 3 of them RAID 5, make 1 of the other server's VM backups, the other one in the same way and save its VM backups to the 1 HDD. Do you think this makes sense?
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    [SOLVED] Determine if backup is run interactively vs scheduled

    Within a vzdump hook script, how can I differentiate scheduled backups from those run interactively via the web UI? There doesn't appear to be anything in env I might use to do this.
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    VM Backup does not shrink even after deleting large files

    Hello community, I hope you are having a great time I have virtual machines with Windows Server 2022, the backups of the virtual machines were around 12GB. I did a test copying large files to the virtual machine and indeed the size of the backup file grew. I deleted them again and made the...
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    vzdump : Unknown option: –dumpdir

    Hi, I'm trying to make a full backup of a VM to an usb drive, but somehow I'm getting an unexpected error about the parameters being used. So I've started by mounting the usb drive, setting an ext4 fs, mount it to /mnt/usb and creating the folder /mnt/usb/vm.backups where I'll be storing the...
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    [SOLVED] Moving VZDumps to PBS datastore

    I have recently setup PBS, but I would like to move my VZDumps to my PBS server. Is that possible? If so, how?
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    [SOLVED] vzdump hang up with offline nfs storage

    hi, if a storage was mounted with nfs and a backup is running, storage goes offline (power lost for exsample), vzdump is hang up, prozess can not be kill, not stop in web gui and not with kill -9 pid pve-manager/7.2-11/b76d3178 any ideas for fix or is a bug in main software for proxmox team...
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    [SOLVED] vzdump as non-root user possible?

    Hello, My ultimate goal is to vzdump a VM over SSH using a non-root user. I have searched and tried for some time now but did not manage to find a working solution. I have created a user named vzdumper via useradd and, for now, added him to the Administrator role. However, when I login with...
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    Change storage name in vzdump

    I am getting the following 'failed: storage 'backup' does not exist' error when trying to restore a vzdump from another server to my proxmox instance. Moved it from proxmox 6 to 7. All i want to know is how can i change the storage name in the VMA file from 'backup' to 'local-lvm'? I tried...
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    VZDUMP ionice

    https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/about-of-ionice-in-vzdump.16485/#post-84954 would it be possible to get a conclusive and up to date answer on this, @dietmar /etc/vzdump.conf uses "ionice=8" and I see no ionice parameter in the process executing the backup. what I have is /bin/bash -c set...
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    vzdump of VM or CT slow when stored on local-btrfs

    Has anyone else seen or had issues with local-btrfs. I have tested with every setting I can find. When trying to backup a VM or container that is using local-btrfs. It is not usable. I am talking 8-128kib/s I have adjusted vzdump I have tried no compression. You name it. I move the VM or...
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    vzdump temp dir delete stale data?

    Hi all! my proxmox environment is consuming near to 100% disk space. I figured out my CTs only consume around 50% of storage. I found a folder called "/vz/vzdump_tmp_dir" which is configured in /etc/vzdump.conf as tmpdir. Currently, no backups are running. In the past, a couple of backups...
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    [SOLVED] vzdump: backupp failed could not activate storage 'backup': storage 'backup' is not available on node 'SRV-01'

    vzdump backup status (MAIL) : backup failed: could not activate storage 'Backup': storage 'Backup' is not available on node 'SRV-01' is the Error I get via Mail For context I got a cluster with 3 nodes SRV-01, SRV-02, SRV-03. On 01 I got a few Container running, 02 is for repclicating 01, and...
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    General backup thoughts - discussion starter

    Hello Everyone, This could be TL;DR I use Proxmox from the very beginning and I use ZFS for ages back when I had to compile it by myself and official PVE did not support using ZFS. I use smaller clusters (2 - 6 nodes, but a cluster is a cluster in case of 3+ nodes, so, if you see one, you saw...
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    [SOLVED] High IO wait during backups after upgrading to Proxmox 7

    We recently completed the upgrade to Proxmox 7. The issue exists on two different kernels pveversion: pve-manager/7.2-7/d0dd0e85 (running kernel: 5.15.39-1-pve) and pve-manager/7.2-7/d0dd0e85 (running kernel: 5.15.35-2-pve) Since the upgrade Io wait has increased dramatically during vzdump...
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    Backup of VM 218 failed - unable to parse volume ID '/var/lib/lxc/218'

    Hi! I've created my LXC in a folder (/var/lib/lxc/218), so I could use the full capacity of the host's disk: pct create 218 /var/lib/vz/template/cache/oracle-linux-8-20220719.tar.xz --rootfs=/var/lib/lxc/218 --hostname w18 --net0 name=eth0,ip=10.0.0.18/24,gw=10.0.0.1,bridge=vmbr1 --memory 7196...
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    vzdump.cron empty

    Hi everyone, I have Proxmox 7.2.4 and PBS 2.2-1. But proxmox 7.2.4 entire server "/etc/pve/vzdump.cron & /etc/cron.d/vzdump " empty file and PBS Server in not find vzdump.cron. I'm trying to do backup control scripts. Can you anyone help me? Thanks A lot,
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    [SOLVED] deleting a VM but vzdump under backup for that VM still shows from old VM ?

    Hello, I have Proxmox VE 7.1 proxmox-ve: 7.1-1 (running kernel: 5.13.19-6-pve) pve-manager: 7.1-12 (running version: 7.1-12/b3c09de3) pve-kernel-helper: 7.1-14 pve-kernel-5.13: 7.1-9 pve-kernel-5.4: 6.4-11 pve-kernel-5.13.19-6-pve: 5.13.19-15 pve-kernel-5.13.19-5-pve: 5.13.19-13...
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    LXC Container Backup Suspend Mode exits with rsync error 23 after upgrade to PVE 7.1

    Dear fellows, this ist my very first Proxmox problem. I upgraded from PVE 6.4 to 7.1 which was all milk and honey and ran fine without any trouble. But since the upgrade, I cannot backup a specific LXC container in suspend mode, only stop mode works. The error shown is as follows: What really...
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    PBS Hourly backup

    Hello, I have configured PBS as per attachment, I would like to have backups every two hours and keep the last 12 in order to have a backup every two hours of a whole day. Also you want to keep the last 7 days, 4 weeks and last 6 months. Now, the backup task starts only once a day at the...
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    vzdump --exclude-path for VM not supported, any alternatives?

    I wanted to backup some VMs but exclude the /var/www/ directory, as it is saved via other method and quite large. With VZDump the parameter --exclude-path is only supported within containers, but are there any alternatives or similar ways for VMs? Thanks in advance!

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