PVE settings backup

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So far, I periodically copy (using below script) content of PVE host's /etc selected folders to nfs folder.

Code: 
#!/bin/sh
BACKUP_PATH="/mnt/pve/mmds-nfs/host_config/"
BACKUP_FILE="pvess"
KEEP_DAYS=7
PVE_BACKUP_SET="/etc/pve/ /etc/lvm/ /etc/modprobe.d/ /etc/network/interfaces /etc/vzdump.conf /etc/sysctl.d /etc/resolv.conf /etc/ksmtuned.conf /etc/hosts /etc/hostname /etc/cron* /etc/aliases"
PVE_CUSTOM_BACKUP_SET="/etc/systemd/network"

tar -czf $BACKUP_PATH$BACKUP_FILE-$(date +%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S).tar.gz --absolute-names $PVE_BACKUP_SET $PVE_CUSTOM_BACKUP_SET
find $BACKUP_PATH$BACKUP_FILE-* -mindepth 0 -maxdepth 0 -depth -mtime +$KEEP_DAYS -delete

Is there any plan to introduce something more official, either via cli or webgui to make sure all settings are copied and later easily restored when needed? Or maybe I don't know more proper approach?
 
just curious, why you need to back up those setting periodically?

normally those are just default, or even a onetime setting and forgot it thing right? isn't one time backup after modification should be more than good enough?
 
chchia said:
just curious, why you need to back up those setting periodically?

normally those are just default, or even a onetime setting and forgot it thing right? isn't one time backup after modification should be more than good enough?
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Periodically is mainly for content of /etc/pve folder (change of VMs or lxc) plus script takes care about keeping last 7 daily backups...
 
I use PBS for VMs and lxc but in case of restoring PVE host itself I would like to have a copy of for example, storage and resource mappings...
 
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