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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please can you post the file /etc/vzdump.conf?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Francesco R<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sonntag, 15. April 2012 10:39<br>
<b>To:</b> pve-user@pve.proxmox.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PVE-User] vzdump & exclude-path<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've tried Dietmar, thanks, but once again the exclude-path directive that you've suggested in /etc/vzdump.conf is ignored.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">don't know what do to...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/francesco<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">p.s. yes, Luca, I'm backing up vz containers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># pveversion -v<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pve-manager: 1.9-26 (pve-manager/1.9/6567)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-55+ovzfix-1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-55+ovzfix-1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">qemu-server: 1.1-32<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pve-firmware: 1.0-14<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vncterm: 0.9-2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vzctl: 3.0.29-3pve1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vzdump: 1.2-16<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vzprocps: 2.0.11-2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vzquota: 3.0.11-1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dietmar Maurer <<a href="mailto:dietmar@proxmox.com">dietmar@proxmox.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You can only have one exclude-path config line, try:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">exclude-path: “/tmp/.+”
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“/var/www/html/cache/.+”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">- Dietmar</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Francesco R<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Dienstag, 10. April 2012 18:52<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user@pve.proxmox.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PVE-User] vzdump & exclude-path</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">we would like to exclude from the daily vzdump snapshots all unnecessary web cache content (tipically /var/www/*/html/*/cache), and /tmp content of course.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We've created /etc/vzdump.conf with <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">exclude-path: "/tmp/*"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">exclude-path: "/var/www/html/cache/*"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">as stated in <a href="http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VZDump" target="_blank">http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VZDump</a>, but its content does not effect the daily backups (compressed snapshots)
added through the web interface.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Are we trying to do something that makes sense? or the only way is to manually create custom cron backups with "vzdump --exclude-path ..."?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">/francesco ronzon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">OpenContent<o:p></o:p></p>
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