Backup Job - Select Multiple

[poxin]

When creating a backup job, is there a way to select more than one node for the job?

Previously I had it blank which did them all. This worked fine but now I need to seperate just one node from the rest of them in two independent jobs. Doesn't seem like it's an option using any sort of separator or holding ctrl down.

Edit: it appears multiple selection works on the GUI with regards to nodes on an NFS share for example. Does not work for backup job nodes.

 

[Alwin]

You can select the nodes via CRTL + CLICK in the backup task window.

 

[poxin]

I tried that in my first reply by holding Ctrl down. This does not work in the latest version of chrome and proxmox up-to-date: pve-manager/5.1-43

This is holding ctrl down and clicking on other nodes in the list: https://i.imgur.com/YNfTXm7.gifv

 

[Alwin]

I checked, it is not possible to do that (recalled wrongly). Why would you like to select only a part of your hosts?

 

[poxin]

Yeah right now you can select one, or all. I'd like to be able to select part of them. If I'm not doing 'all' then I now have to create a ton of separate backup jobs in the interface

 

[Alwin]

I'd like to be able to select part of them.

But why, please explain, when would it make sense to do so?

 

[poxin]

In my example, I have two NFS storage servers. I'd like to send a group of them to backup to the first server, and some others to a different one.

 

[Alwin]

Understand, but this would make the selection logic for VMs/CTs more complicated to handle. Also wouldn't it be better to select the VMs/CTs that schould go to nfs1 or nfs2? With that you can maximize the bandwidth per node while backing up and the backup history of a VM/CT stays on one nfs.

 

[poxin]

I would argue it would make the selection logic for VMs/CTs the same as if you selected 'All' for the nodes, as every VM Guest is listed below when doing so. It would offer more granularity you selected individual nodes and wanted to drill down to each individual guest.

In my preference I don't select individual guests to backup but each Node is set to backup to an NFS server with the guests selected as 'All'. This method means I only need to setup the backup job once, when the node is added to the cluster and prevents updating it each time a new VM guest is added. Otherwise when a new guest was created, you'd have to make sure it was selected in the backup job too.

 

[Alwin]

Well, in any case, we can think about it. If you like, please put a feature request into the tracker. https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/