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

[Frank Thommen]

Hi Eneko,

On 08.11.21 13:22, Eneko Lacunza via pve-user wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot for the hint.  I should probably look more often into the 
advanced configuration settings :-)

Frank

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Eneko Lacunza