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

[Frank Thommen]

Hi Nada,

thanks, but this would exclude the complete VM from the backup (we have 
that for a few special VMs).  However we wanted to exclude only one 
specific vdisk of a specific VM and not the VM itself.

I have implemented Eneko's suggestion (see the previous mail in this 
thread).

Cheers, Frank


On 08.11.21 13:33, nada wrote:
> 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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