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

[Frank Thommen]

Hello Eneko,

On 08.11.21 14:22, Frank Thommen wrote:
> 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 :-)

Just as a final confirmation: Your suggestion worked like a charm.  The 
backup time came down from >6 hours to 8 minutes :-).

Thanks again
Frank

> 
> Frank
> 
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Eneko Lacunza
> 
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