PBS Hourly backup

[yena]

Hello,
I have configured PBS as per attachment,



I would like to have backups every two hours and keep the last 12 in order to have a backup every two hours of a whole day.

Also you want to keep the last 7 days, 4 weeks and last 6 months.

Now, the backup task starts only once a day at the time indicated by the cluster "edit backup job" panel.




Reading around some people say to edit
/etc/pve/vzdump.cron
by hand:

Original
50 9 * * * root vzdump 105 --mode snapshot --mailnotification always --node cvs12 --mailto xxx@xxxxx.net --quiet 1 --storage PBS

Hourly:
50 */2 * * * root vzdump 105 --mode snapshot --mailnotification always --node cvs12 --mailto xxx@xxxxx.net --quiet 1 --storage PBS

I see "vzdump", so PBS sore classic VZDUMP archives or incremental backup ?
Is it correct to manually change it or there is a best practise ?
Thanks

 

[Dunuin]

What PVE version are you running? PVE 7.1 switched to a new backup scheduler where you could use a "0/2:00" like with the BPS.
The vzdump.cron is only used for PVE7.0 and prior.

 

[yena]

What PVE version are you running? PVE 7.1 switched to a new backup scheduler where you could use a "0/2:00" like with the BPS.
The vzdump.cron is only used for PVE7.0 and prior.

Proxmox 6.4.13

 

[t.lamprecht]

Proxmox 6.4.13

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0

 

[yena]

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0

Unfortunately I can't upgrade right away, I have to wait a month or so, in the meantime can I manually modify the cron?
Many Thanks

 

[t.lamprecht]

in the meantime can I manually modify the cron?

That will work out fine, but editing the job through the web interface won't reakky work anymore.