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

[nada]

hi Frank
you can exclude CT/QM or some path see details at man
# man vzdump

example
via webGUI
   cluster > backup > edit > selection > ... exclude some VM ...
via CLI
   0 2 * * 6	root	vzdump --exclude 104 --mode snapshot --quiet 1 
--maxfiles 1 --storage backup --compress lzo --mailnotification always 
--mailto admin at some.where

best regards
Nada


On 2021-11-08 13:07, Frank Thommen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Cheers, Frank
> 
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