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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Am Mittwoch, Februar 17, 2016 11:00 CET, Gilberto Nunes <<a href="mailto:gilberto.nunes32@gmail.com" target="_blank">gilberto.nunes32@gmail.com</a>> schrieb:<br> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hello list<br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I have a VM KVM with Linux Ubuntu 14.04 running in PVE 4.1.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Everything is fine.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>This VM is our Zimbra Mail Server in which we have about 1 000 accounts.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>The amount of disk space is about 1,4 TB.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>As can you see, with a bug partition like this, it's very difficult to make and mantain backups...<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>And, to worst eerything, vzdump backup tooks so long to make a backup...<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>What recommendation can you,guys, point to me to mitigate such situation?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I will grateful for any advice<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br> <b><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>[Ulrich Huber] </span></i></b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Bacula was already mentioned – but which filesystem are you using at the PVE-Host and within the guest? Some Filesystems allow shadow copy, so there is no need to suspend the host….</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Ulrich Huber] Another idea is rsnapshot – I do use this for staggered Backups. Usually, I use an iscsi-share, mount this share, make the snapshot, unmount and make another copy of the unmounted share on tape. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Or you try with lvm and lvm-shanpshots…. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can combine the idea of creating an md-Raid with iscsi (using the iscsi as mirror-disk, break the mirror, copy the second disk to backup, reestablish the mirror and start a remirroring… (but I have no idea about performance, I never tried this – just a theoretical approach…) <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe there are some more ideas:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/231073/linux-equivalent-for-windows-shadow-copies">http://serverfault.com/questions/231073/linux-equivalent-for-windows-shadow-copies</a> - <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>pve-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com">pve-user@pve.proxmox.com</a><br><a href="http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user" target="_blank">http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Gilberto Ferreira<br>+55 (47) 9676-7530<br>Skype: gilberto.nunes36<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>