I have a large data disk attached to one of my VMS.
Backing up the data disk as part of the VM makes restores VERY slow (10 hours with the data disk only 1/3 full at 1TB)
In the interim, I'm backing up the data from within the VM using proxmox backup client but the VM resources are being fully utilised for several hours.
I'd prefer being able to send the volume from the Proxmox host but since it's a zvol rather than a file I'm a bit confused as to the way forward.
Is it even possible to send it when the VM is using it or would I have to snapshot it first?
Inside the VM I'm able to backup using (I have the rest set with the env variables)
From the host,
I would like to backup data/vm-162-disk-1 but is it even possible since it isn't actually a file on the host system that I can just send across?
I'm not concerned about the extra steps that would be required to restore the data as long as it is backed up but I need to be able to restore the VM itself more quickly than I can when I have to restore a huge data disk as well as the smaller OS disk.
Backing up the data disk as part of the VM makes restores VERY slow (10 hours with the data disk only 1/3 full at 1TB)
In the interim, I'm backing up the data from within the VM using proxmox backup client but the VM resources are being fully utilised for several hours.
I'd prefer being able to send the volume from the Proxmox host but since it's a zvol rather than a file I'm a bit confused as to the way forward.
Is it even possible to send it when the VM is using it or would I have to snapshot it first?
Inside the VM I'm able to backup using (I have the rest set with the env variables)
Code:
proxmox-backup-client backup data.pxar:/willzpool --ns vinFrom the host,
Code:
17:09:09 [root@sazed ~]# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
data 3.47T 3.67T 128K /data
data/vm-162-disk-1 3.47T 6.17T 991G -
vms 555G 1.14T 104K /vms
vms/subvol-172-disk-0 29.8G 70.2G 29.8G /vms/subvol-172-disk-0
vms/subvol-201-disk-0 1.84G 198G 1.84G /vms/subvol-201-disk-0
vms/vm-101-disk-0 132G 1.24T 28.4G -
vms/vm-101-disk-1 3M 1.14T 112K -
vms/vm-101-disk-2 6M 1.14T 64K -
vms/vm-102-disk-0 122G 1.22T 39.3G -
vms/vm-103-disk-0 32.5G 1.17T 2.32G -
vms/vm-162-disk-0 40.6G 1.16T 22.5G -
vms/vm-180-disk-0 32.5G 1.15T 17.2G -
vms/vm-180-disk-1 3M 1.14T 80K -
vms/vm-200-disk-0 522M 1.14T 47.3M -
vms/vm-250-disk-0 32.5G 1.16T 14.0G -
vms/vm-250-disk-1 3M 1.14T 96K -
vms/vm-269-disk-0 66.0G 1.19T 15.1G -
vms/vm-270-disk-0 65.0G 1.18T 23.1G -I would like to backup data/vm-162-disk-1 but is it even possible since it isn't actually a file on the host system that I can just send across?
I'm not concerned about the extra steps that would be required to restore the data as long as it is backed up but I need to be able to restore the VM itself more quickly than I can when I have to restore a huge data disk as well as the smaller OS disk.
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