vzdump

I'd like to further analyze the current backup status of Proxmox VE So the log of the existing backup job is required I double clicked task from the web UI, and then CTRL +a/CTRL +c/CTRL +p select, copy and paste. But the LOG pasted is incomplete You can see the action video here...

How can I use vzdump for a specific VM, only to backup scsi0 (and not scsi1), or more common, how can I include/exclude specific disks from backup? Best regards and thanks for your help in advance!

Please note that we have a backup scheduled for our VM's everyday. We realised recently that for one of the servers the backup logs says that the backup was successful but we cannot find the related vzdump file. Even when we take a manual backup the same is happening. Could someone please let...

I use Dropbox to upload encrypted backups of various things, including encrypted volumes, etc. as an offsite backup option in addition to onsite backups. My business is small so it works. My scenario: ~20 VZDump backups, compressed, totalling around 130GB 200GB volume on the same SSD drive...

Hello, I would like to know if there is a way (or if is in roadmap) to add a description / notes to a vzdump file that can be seen so one can choose correct file to restore if there are multiple saved (i.e if I need to make some backups at some points). Maybe saved with .txt extension together...

Is it possible to execute a command in a container before backups? Сan be using vzdump hook (--script)? I want to execute 2 commands: pct exec $3 -- psql -c \"CHECKPOINT;\"" pct exec $3 -- sync before backups. or for this vzdump hook (--script) is not suitable?

I do not understand PERL, but example vzdump-hook-script.pl in this language. in the example my $phase = shift; my $vmid = shift; How to get vmid in bash?

Hello, I activated automatic vzdump across my PVE cluster. The problem is that each host starts the backup process at the same time and this make to suffer my backup server. Is there a way to make the backup one host at a time? If not, could you considerate to add this feature? Thanks.

Hello, I'm started to get the following issue recently. Before it worked and for some reasons got broken. root@px:~# vzdump 117 -dumpdir . -tmp . INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 117 --tmpdir . --dumpdir . INFO: Starting Backup of VM 117 (qemu) INFO: status = stopped INFO: update VM 117...

Hello! I have an proxmox machine with 3 VM (Terminal Server, File Server and Domain Controller 2). The backups worked properly till last week. Now during backup of TS I got an error: () INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 100 --compress lzo --storage NFS --remove 0 --node OPTIM-SV-HV02 --mode...

It's all about time. The time server spent on doing backups. The time we spent on recovering files. So my three question: 1. Is this possible to do compressed backup without tar? Is tar really needed this days? 2. I think that tar is my bottleneck when doing backups (it uses only one core of...

Hello to the community, I was following this thread to find the solution to the problem, but I got different behaviour. My guest VM is using 13GB on /dev/sda1, here's the configuration bootdisk: scsi0 cores: 1 ide2: none,media=cdrom lock: backup memory: 4096 name: pippo001 net0...

Hi all is possiible make vzdump from created snapshot in QCOW2 ? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I have been trying to find a solution to this annoying problem for over six months. Have updated both servers (one is a community edition subscription and one is without subscription). This happens with both of them. Whenever I try to have an automated or manual backup of my VM (I don't...

Fellows, i`m running the backup of VMs one time at month thought console with the command: /usr/bin/vzdump <VM_ID> --quiet 1 --mode suspend --node <NODE_NAME> --compress gzip --storage bkp -bwlimit 51200 the backup always complete with sucess: 2018-02-25 00:15:02 INFO: Starting Backup of VM...

Hello everyone, I think (and hope) I have a relatively simple question: I have a container with a Jenkins installation which I'd like to back-up, but I don't want/need to backup the working directory. Is there a way I can set the vzdump exclude option for this container specifically? I tried...

I have a weird problem with specific containers failing to snapshot; the end result is that scheduled vzdump tasks effectively fail and disallow any further vzdump jobs until manually killed. The thing is, if I MANUALLY take a snapshot using rbd snap create it works fine- its only via api that...

Hallo zusammen, ich habe unseren Produktivcluster auf PVE 5.1 aktualisiert und habe seitdem ein sehr eigenartiges Problem. Ich kann keine Backups mehr erstellen. Genauer gesagt: Ich konnte nach aufsetzen des neuen Clusters in der Version 5.1 zwar lesend auf das nfs Target zugreifen und die...

Hello, I'm having some issues with a particular Proxmox 4.4 Server: sometimes prolonged power outages happen during VZDump operations, causing proxmox to shutdown, and so resulting in a locked VM which of course doesn't start at the next boot. Is there a way to automatically unlock VM at boot...

I'm trying to sort out the process for restoring vzdump backups taken on server A to server B. The steps I follow are: 1) Take backup with vzdump on server A. 2) Copy .vma file from server A to a NAS over CIFS. 3) Copy .vma file from NAS to server B over CIFS placing it in /var/lib/vz/dump/ 4)...