[PVE-User] Excluding individual vdisks from PVE backups?

[Eneko Lacunza]

Hi Frank,

El 8/11/21 a las 13:07, Frank Thommen escribió:
>
> Dear all,
>
> we are doing daily backups of every VM in our PVE cluster to the 
> internal Ceph storage (snapshot mode, ZSTD compression).  However one 
> of the VMs takes six to seven hours for the backup, which is 
> unbearable and also interferes with other backup processes.  The delay 
> is probably due to a 50% filled 500G vdisk attached to the VM.  Is 
> there a way to exclude this specific vdisk from the PVE backup 
> schedule, while still retaining the rest of the VM in the backup?
>
> We don't have PBS in place and will not have it in the near future for 
> different reasons. So PBS would not be an option for us.
>

Yes, in VM Hardware config tab, edit vdisk and uncheck "Backup" in advanced.

Cheers

Eneko Lacunza
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