As @leesteken pointed out, if the network handling Corosync fails long enough, each node becomes isolated from the others and loses quorum. To avoid a split-brain situation (i.e., node1 attempting to recover services that are still running on...
Fencing is indeed normal operation when using HA: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#ha_manager_fencing
Make sure your (corosync) network is not a single point of failure...
You list only a single pool named "special" consisting of a single (triple!) mirrored vdev! There is no "Special Device" involved!
Not sure what you want to achieve and what to recommend... sorry.
you can also change the owner in the GUI (the little 'person' icon in the "Actions" column). for the CLI, you need to quote the authid properly:
proxmox-backup-client change-owner vm/100 "root@pam!nas2pbs" --repository pbs-local, else the '!'...
I have ran PBS in the past on bare metal and had no issues, but my setup has since change and looking for some help on which direction I should go if not running bare metal anymore.
Would it be better to ...
Install PBS as VM on Proxmox and...
Thanks for the reply and your thoughts!
I was unaware of the E1000 issue, but at a glance, it looks like it should not affect me as the systems have Realtek NICs.
root@pve2:~# lspci | grep Ethernet
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek...
Thanks, I will start with PBS installing on the Intel NUC with 8gb ram and 110gb ssd after that is working i'll come back to you to explain me please how to setup the 2nd machine as cascade.
Try to completely disable c-states in bios.
Could be a storage problem too, try disabling sata link power management in bios, or for testing everyting related to power saving.
And check what nic you have, if it is a intel you maybe affected by...
Hi @pavlos , this is because you have not purchased support subscription and are not authorized to connect to ENTERPRISE.proxmox.com.
Follow the steps to disable the Enterprise repo and to enable the no-subscription repo...
As the title say. I have ok speed to the remote, 50-70Mb/s but the ping is high. Trying to add one pve and one pbs but get same error: api error (status = 400: client error (Connect)). The error pop up directly, I would say in a shorter time than...
Afternoon everyone, so I have a question which is if it’s alright to install the base proxmox OS and node on a m.2 SATA SSD Won’t be running anything heavy just some home stuff.) I will use an enterprise grade SATA drive for the VMs but for the...
Hello All,
I am attempting to restore a VM from a PBS instance that has some amount of corruption in the underlying files. Output from a restore attempt is some version of this:
restore failed: Failed to parse chunk...
Figured I'd take the time to dump some detail on why the VM borked under the 6.8.12-16-pve kernel. (Seems like it was the SATA controller I use to passthrough a bluray optical drive.)
journalctl --since "2025-11-26 09:48:05" --until "2025-11-26...