My backups go to an external drive which is mounted to /media/backup. What I try to achieve is that I replace this drive with a different one whenever appropriate and have PBS continue to use that drive. The new drive might be empty or a hold an older version of the datastore.
Now, it turns out that things aren't that easy. It seems I have to manually recreate the on-drive parts of the repository, folder structure, namespaces, etc. Which is ok, because I can script this.
However, I am stuck now with the below and wonder if I might be hitting a security token issue making what I want to do impossible?
The folder structure is there, /media/backup/PBS is owned by backup:backup. I was able to recreate the namespaces through the UI, which I guess means the service is able to write to that folder structure in principle.
I could of course delete and recreate the datastore, but that would mean new fingerprints and updating all clients which I don't want to do.
Anyone got an idea what might be missing still, or an alternative approach to achieve my goal of multiple alternating backup drives?
Now, it turns out that things aren't that easy. It seems I have to manually recreate the on-drive parts of the repository, folder structure, namespaces, etc. Which is ok, because I can script this.
However, I am stuck now with the below and wonder if I might be hitting a security token issue making what I want to do impossible?
Code:
INFO: Error: inserting chunk on store 'BackupDrive' failed for 88885c27a95d2b841e24a1f8030ab3b25c9
c6714e3b0a368afdc7910419863af - mkstemp "/media/backup/PBS/.chunks/8888/88885c27a95d2b841e24a1f8030ab3b25c9c6714e3b0a368afdc7910419863af.tmp_XXXXXX" failed: ENOENT: No such file or directory
INFO: cleanup temporary 'vzdump' snapshot
ERROR: Backup of VM 102 failed - command 'lxc-usernsexec -m u:0:100000:65536 -m g:0:100000:65536 -- /usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup '--crypt-mode=none' pct.conf:/var/tmp/vzdumptmp3333297_102/etc/vzdump/pct.conf root.pxar:/mnt/vzsnap0 --include-dev /mnt/vzsnap0/./ --skip-lost-and-found '--exclude=/tmp/?*' '--exclude=/var/tmp/?*' '--exclude=/var/run/?*.pid' --backup-type ct --backup-id 102 --backup-time 1762935038 --entries-max 1048576 --repository root@pam@172.20.0.2:BackupDrive --ns PVE2' failed: exit code 255
INFO: Failed at 2025-11-12 09:10:40
INFO: Backup job finished with errors
INFO: notified via target `mail-to-root`
TASK ERROR: job errorsThe folder structure is there, /media/backup/PBS is owned by backup:backup. I was able to recreate the namespaces through the UI, which I guess means the service is able to write to that folder structure in principle.
I could of course delete and recreate the datastore, but that would mean new fingerprints and updating all clients which I don't want to do.
Anyone got an idea what might be missing still, or an alternative approach to achieve my goal of multiple alternating backup drives?