Backup based on tags

[rastablondi]

Hi Proxmox community,

Is ist possible to control the PBS backup based on tags for vm's?

Example:
vm101 - tag: debian, fileserver, weekly
vm102 - tag: windows, ad, daily
vm103 - tag debian, test, none

Our idea:
PBS shall read the tags of the vm's automatically and perform the backup of the vm's accordingly.

Background:
The same function we have relaized today with vmware and VEEAM.
Due to migration ideas from vmware to PROXMOX PVE+PBS we would like to use the same function in the future.

Benefit:
Users (withput access to PBS) can define by simple tag if vm shall participate on automatic backups.

Any idea?

Thanks!

 

[ggoller]

Hi!
sadly this is not possible right now. You could use pools but they only support a vm to be a part of a single pool, so your example won't work (https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#pveum_resource_pools). There is an feature request though: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4186

 

[rastablondi]

@ggoller
Thank you, added +1 to the feature request with migration purpose from esxi+veeam to proxmox+pbs
Looking forward to an implementation in PVE+PBS

 

[Ash25]

Hi All,

Is the tag based backup discovery available now?

Thanks,
Ash

 

[janus57]

Hi,

Not at the moment (see the bugtracker linked ahead).

Best regards,

 

[Chris]

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[0] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4186