Add Backup Drive

[skazzaks]

Hello all,

First post. I am new to Proxmox but really love it so far! I am kind of a Linux newb, so please bear with me. That said...

I have installed Proxmox on a 1.5TB harddrive and plan to run VMs off of it. I already have 2 setup. I also have installed a 2nd harddrive that is 500MB. I would like to store backups of data on to this drive from each of my VMs. Is this possible? For each VM to access the backup drive (some will be Windows, some will be Linux). If so, how can I do this? I have created the drive, but I don't know if it need to format it correctly. I am looking at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model but to be honest it is still over my head. Any advice?

Also, I have a 2TB USB drive that I was going to use for backups as well, but I understand that this can only be used for one VM at once? Can I run it on the host and make it sharable to all VMs? What is the best strategy for what I am trying to do?

Thanks - I have a lot of confusion. Please be patient

Thanks for the great product!

 

[udo]

Hello all,

First post. I am new to Proxmox but really love it so far! I am kind of a Linux newb, so please bear with me. That said...

I have installed Proxmox on a 1.5TB harddrive and plan to run VMs off of it. I already have 2 setup. I also have installed a 2nd harddrive that is 500MB. I would like to store backups of data on to this drive from each of my VMs. Is this possible? For each VM to access the backup drive (some will be Windows, some will be Linux). If so, how can I do this? I have created the drive, but I don't know if it need to format it correctly. I am looking at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model but to be honest it is still over my head. Any advice?

Also, I have a 2TB USB drive that I was going to use for backups as well, but I understand that this can only be used for one VM at once? Can I run it on the host and make it sharable to all VMs? What is the best strategy for what I am trying to do?

Thanks - I have a lot of confusion. Please be patient

Thanks for the great product!

Hi,
if you want to mount similtanous one filesystem on several VMs, you need an cluster-filesystem (i think it's oversized for your purpose).
Another way is to mount the VM on the host and share the space to the VMs with nfs/smb...
But what's about the simple way? Mount this storage to the host (e.g. to /backup - make an entry in /etc/fstab), define this storage as backup-storage an do the backup of the VM-disks with proxmox (GUI) to this disk.

For further backups from VM-inside-date is an backup-program like bacula very helpfull. But perhaps not the first task of an linux-newbie.

Udo