[PVE-User] Guidance requested to make use of command line to take the back up of my VM to CIFS /NFS share

[Joseph John]

Dear All
I am going to try
vzdump [vmno] --dumpdir */mnt/pve/backup* --mode snapshot
Will post the result to the group
thanks



On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 1:06 PM Joseph John <jjk.saji at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> Good afternoon
> I  was trying to take backup of VM to NFS /CIFS share, We have created the
> NFS and CIFS share and it shows in "df -h" , but do not show in the storage
> drop down  when I choose the backup of VM instance
>
> But when I give a df-h , I get the results
>
> oot at server-1:~# df -h
> Filesystem                               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev                                     378G     0  378G   0% /dev
> tmpfs                                     76G   13M   76G   1% /run
> /dev/mapper/pve-root                      29G  6.2G   22G  23% /
> tmpfs                                    378G   69M  378G   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                                    5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> tmpfs                                    378G     0  378G   0%
> /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/sdb2                                511M  312K  511M   1% /boot/efi
> /dev/fuse                                 30M   72K   30M   1% /etc/pve
>
> *//10.115.129.160/proxmox <http://10.115.129.160/proxmox>
> 1.0T  359G  666G  36%
> /mnt/pve/backup10.115.129.169:/home/itsupport/nfsshare 1017G   14G  955G
> 2% /mnt/pve/nfsbackup*
> tmpfs                                     76G     0   76G   0% /run/user/0
>
>
> So from the df -h , we can see the CIFS and NFS, but through the web
> interfaces, backup option do not show them in the drop down menu.
> I am thinking in this situation, to make use command line and run the
> backup so that I can specify the location (cifs or nfs share) to which I
> can  copy the disk image
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Joseph John
>
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