Tuxis launches free Proxmox Backup Server BETA service

[martin]

Tuxis just launched a Proxmox Backup Server BETA service - everybody is invited to test and provide feedback!

Get all details and sign-up on https://www.tuxis.nl/en/proxmox-backup-server/

UPDATE: See this post from Tuxis for up-to-date details about their service.

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Best regards,

Martin Maurer

 

[tuxis]

Feel free to reach out through the Forum as well!

 

[TwiX]

Hi,

I just subscribed
2 backups of 3 vms (1 full and second incremental)
works as expected - very fast servers - first backup was done in 2-3 min - second less than 10s

Thanks for allowing us make external backups for free

 

[TwiX]

I guess we could add more than one cluster in the PBS you provide ?

 

[tuxis]

I guess we could add more than one cluster in the PBS you provide ?

Correct! The 500GB is per user. Let me know what second name you want to use for the second cluster.

 

[TwiX]

Ok thanks
So with encryption enabled, I guess it won't be easy to restore a dump from one particular cluster to another one connected to the same pbs.

 

[tuxis]

Ok thanks
So with encryption enabled, I guess it won't be easy to restore a dump from one particular cluster to another one connected to the same pbs.

You could add both datastores and their encryption keys..

 

[TwiX]

Hi,
After rebooting a whole cluster (node by node), it is impossible to access the PBS.
Everything is up to date.

Sep 23 10:31:04 dc-prox-09 pveproxy[68324]: Clearing outdated entries from certificate cache
Sep 23 10:31:06 dc-prox-09 pveproxy[68323]: proxy detected vanished client connection
Sep 23 10:31:06 dc-prox-09 pveproxy[68323]: worker exit
Sep 23 10:31:08 dc-prox-09 pveproxy[44722]: proxy detected vanished client connection
Sep 23 10:31:10 dc-prox-09 pveproxy[44722]: proxy detected vanished client connection
Sep 23 10:31:10 dc-prox-09 pveproxy[49695]: proxy detected vanished client connection
Sep 23 10:31:26 dc-prox-09 pvestatd[2161]: status update time (37.271 seconds)
Sep 23 10:31:38 dc-prox-09 pvestatd[2161]: status update time (12.307 seconds)

Also, it is impossible via the GUI to browse other storages like Ceph, NFS, etc...

After removing the PBS everything works as expected.

 

[tuxis]

The pvestatd is waiting for responses from PBS which was pretty slow earlier. We just tuned the ZFS filesystem a bit with a 'special' device and upgraded to 0.8-19 which seems to have improved webserver-responses a bit.

 

[TwiX]

Hi,

Something is wrong this morning :

On 2 clusters with Tuxis PBS :




The cluster seems to be OK - VMs are running normally

nothing interesting on syslog

 

[TwiX]

OK, the pb is located on pvestatd....

pvestatd restart (reload) didn't work. I had to stop pvestatd and then start it on each node.

after that :

 

[tuxis]

Yes, the singlethreadedness of pvestatd is a problem that causes lots of confusion. I'll create a PVE-bug for that.

As far as PBS is concerned, I see no signs of issues on that side. Logging continues as normal and statistics do not show storage or CPU to be very busy. Performance of the PBS seems to need improvement somewhere, but I cannot see how many clients are connected, which is kind of a nice feature to have. I'll create a feature request for that.

 

[TwiX]

seems that pvestatd stopped working properly at 2:30 AM this morning on both clusters which are hosted on 2 different datacenters !!

 

[tuxis]

Correct. I got monitoring notifications around that time. But the PBS was pretty much idle then.

 

[TwiX]

This issue seems related :
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3008

I guess the PBS was not available this morning at 02:30

 

[tuxis]

Yes, that is indeed related.

It does seem that PBS was unreachable, but the weird thing is that the server is not complaining about anything...

 

[TwiX]

something between my 2 datacenters and you.

 

[tuxis]

No. My monitoring runs locally and complained around the same time.

 

[TwiX]

what kind of messages do you have ?

 

[tuxis]

Request timed out on localhost:8007 .