Attach local backup disk to VM without having disk in the vzdump backup

mzeecedric

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Jan 14, 2024
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Hello all, I am a proxmox newbie and guess that I might just not be able to find the topics that have the answer, sorry.

Beside the backup via vzdump I additionally want to place backups on a disk on my NAS. This works fine within the same internal network as I can mount via NFS and vzdump is not including this. For external VMs I tried to mount a local drive to the host and connected a partition via "qm set VMID --scsi1 /path" as suggested in an other post here. As a result the complete disk was included in the vzdump which made the whole thing way to large.
I then realized there is a option "--exclude-path" but can't see this available in the GUI. I also tried whether adding the exclude path to /etc/vzdump.conf works, but this doesn't do either.

Code:
# vzdump default settings

exclude-path: /mnt/backup

I've also read somewhere that I can add a disk as a backup-disk but could not find how to do that. Appreciate any help or suggestions.