<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>No point changing rsync to pve backup in my oppinion if you are backing up data only. Only if you are using Windows or you want to backup VM conf. Then i would suggest ticking "no backup" flag on hdd and you're good. Or you could back up whole etc/pve directory.</div><div><br></div><div>Good thing is though you can restore directly to new VM and you can do it in quite few steps.</div><div><br>On 03.05.2015, at 11:36, Julien Groselle <<a href="mailto:julien.groselle@gmail.com">julien.groselle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have never backuped any VM.</div><div>I consider every VM as a server, so I backup the data inside (rsync based backup) and not the envelop.</div><div><br></div><div>If someone can tell me what is the advantage to backup the VM, maybe I will change my mind :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-02 11:34 GMT+02:00 Dietmar Maurer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dietmar@proxmox.com" target="_blank">dietmar@proxmox.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> it is better that all virtual machines shut down and then start vzdump<br>
> or is irrelevant to the speed of the backup?<br>
<br>
</span>I guess there is not much difference. But backup can slow down if there are<br>
many writes inside the VM.<br>
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