[SOLVED] ZFS pool not showing in the context menu of the backups

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takerman

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Hello, before submitting a GitHub issue I wanted to post this question to be sure that this is not working. I searched the other threads about such a problem, but couldn't find.
Description: I have a server with 2 drives combined in an ZFS RAID mirror pool, when I try to backup my virtual machine on it the drive is not appearing even when I edit /etc/pve/storage.cfg manually.
Steps to reproduce: Install Proxmox VE on a server with 2 additional drives with the same size (and model) -> Create ZFS pool RAID1 Mirror with the drives ->
Check /etc/pve/storage.cfg if the pool has the backup role on it, next to the content line -> Go to your virtual machine and try to create a backup -> The storage will not appear
even if you add the backup role in the cfg file.

I asked AI about the case and tried to edit multiple things, but nothing worked to me and I think it is an issue in the current version.
Can you give me some ideas or check please?

Here is my storage.cfg
Code: 
dir: local
        path /var/lib/vz
        content images,vztmpl,snippets,backup,rootdir,iso
        prune-backups keep-all=1

lvm: media
        vgname media
        content rootdir,images
        nodes takerman
        shared 0

zfspool: versions
        pool versions
        content backup,rootdir,images
        mountpoint /versions
        sparse 0
 
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It worked, you are amazing! Thank you.
The mounting point of my ZFS pool was '/versions'.
executed the command:
Code: 
zfs create versions/backups
Then I created a Directory with the backup role from Datacenter -> Storages.
After the directory was created I was able to make backups on it.

You can close the thread or leave it for future references. Thanks!
 
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