vzdump

I'm having regular, but not predictable, issues with my whole system locking up during vzdump backups. Sometimes I'm able to access the host via the GUI, and all the VMs and containers have question marks, sometimes I can't access it at all, same goes for ssh. I've seen a few threads around...

Hey Everyone. First I hope whoever sees this has a good day :) We're having an issue with our PVE cluster (v8.1.2) and backing up LXC containers that are run on a ceph pool It seems that sporadically and without cause, the snapshot stage of our backup job just fails, leaving the container...

Hi! As we know, gzip (or pigz) launched by vzdump is always launched with the --rsyncable switch. By default. So we can use rsync to quickly back up a backup file to another network location. I wrote an example script of a subsystem called SLB - Second Level Backup. This works fine, but only...

My linux VMs back up fine, but the windows ones do not. I was using zstd and the backups kept freezing (I couldn't stop the process without restarting the node), so I am trying gzip now. This time, the process at least ends without hanging, but there are still errors on the windows VMs. I'm...

While currently not supported I have patched the perl module for LXC. /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC.vm You may apply the patch via patch /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC.pm LXC.pm.patch This is the content of LXC.pm.patch: --- /usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC.pm 2023-06-24 15:08:37.000000000 +0200 +++...

Hello, I'm currently facing a strange behavior while Proxmox executes backup(vzdump.) When Proxmox starts backup, it also uses swap space, even if there is free RAM, anyone has any idea why? swappiness already changed to 10. proxmox-ve: 7.1-1 (running kernel: 5.13.19-6-pve) pve-manager...

Hallo, ich möchte einen USB-Stick als Backuplaufwerk im PVE (v8.04) einrichten. Als root suche ich mir via <ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/> die UUID des Sticks heraus, und binde ihn via </etc/fstab> ein. Als Mountverzeichnis wähle ich z.B. </mnt/USBStick>. Danach <systemctl daemon-reload> und ich...

In preparation of wanting to upgrade to version 7, I read in the upgrade notes that it was preferable to update to 6.4 before proceeding. Unfortunately, something has gone wrong during the update/upgrade from 6.2 to 6.4 and a few packages are being held back. Now I'm no longer able to access the...

Hey, Straight to the point, the "move" operation at the end of VZDump kills it if the destination is S3 backend (for which move is actually copy&delete). Currently I'm using rclone to mount S3 bucket. Would it be possible to add a switch that would write backup directly to the destination...

Today I was moving some VM's manually between servers via backup&restore, and I noticed that my system copies the dump file all okay between servers, but when I start the restore process, it is really sluggish and my I/O wait time increases. This is more of an intro to my actual question, but...

Hi, I backup some VMs using SSH with vzdump redirecting to stdout, similar to the command below: ssh root@pve-server vzdump 100 --mode snapshot $VZDUMP_PARAMETERS --stdout > ${SERVER}_${NAME}_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).vma 2> >(tee -a ${SERVER}_${NAME}_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log >&2) But I noticed that if...

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?

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.

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...

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...

I have recently setup PBS, but I would like to move my VZDumps to my PBS server. Is that possible? If so, how?

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...

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...

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...

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...