this is unfortunate because it's my first "hello world" attempt,
pretty much follow the example in the docs, try a file level back up from the command line,
using the client.
I am backing up "root", expecting to see it skip some mount points etc...
./proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository < my pbs hostname >:backup_data
and the command seems to be in an infinite loop
11 GB is about what I would expect but it keeps going and going...
I really don't want to manually kill it, I will be sad,
it will leave me with a very bad first impression of this backup tool I am so excited to use,
have spent a couple days going deep into the awesome documentation etc.
I'll be thinking "can I trust this?"
this client is the statically linked client, I pulled it from a Debian machine with just the "client only" repo/apt file.
apt installed it, the static linked version, and copied the binary to my/this Rocky 8 host (most of my stuff is RH/Rocky/dnf based)
oh wait it did finish eventually....
so, how are we getting these huge "processed" numbers ??
hmm, need to investigate but if anyone has a quick clue that would be awesome
processed 382.115 GiB in 25m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 399.193 GiB in 26m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 416.209 GiB in 27m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 433.412 GiB in 28m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 450.568 GiB in 29m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
warning: file size increased while reading: "var/log/messages", file will be truncated!
warning: file size increased while reading: "var/log/secure", file will be truncated!
root.pxar: had to backup 11.601 GiB of 456.834 GiB (compressed 4.455 GiB) in 1762.72 s (average 6.739 MiB/s)
root.pxar: backup was done incrementally, reused 445.233 GiB (97.5%)
Uploaded backup catalog (9.36 MiB)
Duration: 1769.64s
End Time: Wed Feb 11 16:14:11 2026
pretty much follow the example in the docs, try a file level back up from the command line,
using the client.
I am backing up "root", expecting to see it skip some mount points etc...
./proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository < my pbs hostname >:backup_data
and the command seems to be in an infinite loop
11 GB is about what I would expect but it keeps going and going...
I really don't want to manually kill it, I will be sad,
it will leave me with a very bad first impression of this backup tool I am so excited to use,
have spent a couple days going deep into the awesome documentation etc.
I'll be thinking "can I trust this?"
this client is the statically linked client, I pulled it from a Debian machine with just the "client only" repo/apt file.
apt installed it, the static linked version, and copied the binary to my/this Rocky 8 host (most of my stuff is RH/Rocky/dnf based)
oh wait it did finish eventually....
so, how are we getting these huge "processed" numbers ??
hmm, need to investigate but if anyone has a quick clue that would be awesome
processed 382.115 GiB in 25m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 399.193 GiB in 26m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 416.209 GiB in 27m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 433.412 GiB in 28m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
processed 450.568 GiB in 29m 0s, uploaded 11.28 GiB
warning: file size increased while reading: "var/log/messages", file will be truncated!
warning: file size increased while reading: "var/log/secure", file will be truncated!
root.pxar: had to backup 11.601 GiB of 456.834 GiB (compressed 4.455 GiB) in 1762.72 s (average 6.739 MiB/s)
root.pxar: backup was done incrementally, reused 445.233 GiB (97.5%)
Uploaded backup catalog (9.36 MiB)
Duration: 1769.64s
End Time: Wed Feb 11 16:14:11 2026
