PVE Backup to PBS tries to "prune" now and get permission error

Apollon77

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hey,

I'm using PBS on PVE since some time and everything was ok. Yesterday I updated to the latest 0.9.4-1 and got a backup error. Basically it seems that since the last version PVE tries to call "prune" at the end of the backups.

Code:
INFO: running 'proxmox-backup-client prune' for 'ct/306'
ERROR: prune 'ct/306': proxmox-backup-client failed: Error: permission check failed
ERROR: Backup of VM 306 failed - error pruning backups - check log
INFO: Failed at 2020-10-30 10:00:34
INFO: Backup job finished with errors

I use a permission limited user in pbs that only have DatastoreBackup. In my eyes this should be enough because I do not want to give too high permissions.

So do I need to make that user now a PowerUser or what to allow why PVE is doing?! Or should you not do a config switch if prune should be done? (because PBS normally has it's schedules for this :cool:

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yeah, pruning should be skipped if the storage and backup job are not configured for pruning..
 
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yes. in the meantime you can add --remove 0 to the command line, it should stop pruning then.
 
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You 've to back your data-store with Power-user Role. this role include Backup and Prune privilege.
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