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

[Eneko Lacunza]

Hi Frank,


El 9/11/21 a las 19:47, Frank Thommen escribió:
>
>>>> 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 :-).

Glad this works for you. We use this for some VMs too :)

Cheers

Eneko Lacunza
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