Backup file names

l.mierzwa

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Hi,

right now each backup file is named vzdump-qemu-<vid>-<date>.tgz and the problem is that VID's are recycled, if I create and destroy many machines I end up having many backups with same vid which may contain different containers, If You limit number of backup copies then it is possible to loose backup of machine that was destroyed because there is new machine with same VID. Maybe You can add machine name to the backup file name, for example vzdump-qemu-<vid>-<name>-<date>.tgz ?

EDIT: or maybe You could add option to disable VID recycling but that is bigger change as You would need to keep track of (at least) higher used VID in whole cluster.
 
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you can always set a custom VMID when you create a new VM.
 

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