---
title: "Proxmox Backup Server timeout on disk initialization"
url: https://michalasobczak.pl/posts/proxmox-backup-server-timeout-on-disk-initialization.html
author: "Michał Sobczak"
description: "I installed Proxmox Backup Server several times, both on bare metal and virtualized inside Proxmox VE. This time I did it in PVE as virtual machine and encountered an issue while initializing disk with GPT, creating directory, LVM or ZFS."
published: 2022-11-08T16:34:20.000Z
updated: 2022-11-08T16:34:33.000Z
language: en
categories: ["Technology"]
tags: ["Proxmox", "Proxmox Backup Server"]
license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
---
# Proxmox Backup Server timeout on disk initialization

I installed Proxmox Backup Server several times, both on bare metal and virtualized inside Proxmox VE. This time I did it in PVE as virtual machine and encountered an issue while initializing disk with GPT, creating directory, LVM or ZFS. In other words, I was unable to create any datastore at all. So there is CLI that can help us:

```text
proxmox-backup-manager disk list
proxmox-backup-manager disk initialize sdX
proxmox-backup-manager disk fs create mydatastore --disk sdX --filesystem ext4 --add-datastore true
```

And that’s all, it works fine. In UI I got timeout. No idea why. Fortunately there is a alternative path.