[SOLVED] Backup via NFS: Cannot see backups on filesystem

tecbill

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Moving from VMware vSphere to Proxmox, I'm quite new to all of this, so please have mercy, I am still learning.

I've just set up a brand new Proxmox backup server and created an NFS backup repository pointing to my Synology NAS, mounting it automatically via /etc/fstab like this:
Bash:
10.3.1.2:/volume1/NetBackup/Proxmox/Backups/pbs01 /mnt/synology01Backups nfs vers=4.1,nouser,atime,auto,retrans=2,rw,dev,exec 0 0

After a system reboot, the NFS share is mounted successfully as the following test works flawlessly:
Bash:
touch /mnt/synology01Backups/test

The file is being created successfully:
Screenshot 2025-05-01 132612.png

So far, so good.

Then I created the according backup repository on the backup server successfully:
Screenshot 2025-05-01 133044.png

Then I added the repository successfully as storage to the PVE cluster:
Screenshot 2025-05-01 132944.png

Then I took a test backup of a random VM with the accoring backup target, which also seemed to work successfully:

Screenshot 2025-05-01 132506.png

The backup shows up successfully on the backup server:

Screenshot 2025-05-01 132737.png

But when I have a look on the filesystem, nothing is there:
Screenshot 2025-05-01 135426.png

Any ideas what is going on here?
Thanks!
 
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Did you create the datastore on the correct backing path? Please share the output of proxmox-backup-manager datastore list as executed on the PBS.
 
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@Chris That was it. I simply re-added the whole repo again and I must have messed up with the backing path somehow.
Issue solved, apologies for asking such a dumb question before trying again.