vzdump

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)...

Just about every night I have at least one (sometimes more) containers with a failed backup; The status of task cryptically just says "32052: Oct 30 07:31:48 ERROR: Backup of VM 32052 failed - CT is locked (backup)" The lock isnt clears and remains so until manually cleared via pct unlock...

I've a VM on a disk with I/O error, I want to make backup of that VM while it's running, therefor it's not possible to use dd, Is that possible to ask vzdump to continue on I/O error of source disk?

I have a problem with a specific container hanging on vzdump jobs. It has a unionfs mounted file system and are a result the vzdump task hangs. The consequences of this is that no other backup jobs on that node can process until that task is cancelled manually. 1. Is there a way to control...