backup of proxmox systems

[Guy]

I've just configured my proxmox systems to run backups onto an NFS fileserver. Two questions a rise from this:

1. what's your recommended way to make sure my NFS server is mounted after a reboot, or before the backup starts. This might be something you want to add in for other users too. I know I could write or edit and rc file but I want to make sure it doesn't get delete during updates.

2. I had the proxmox system e-mail when the backup completed. which is nice. I'd like to have proxmox e-mail on all sorts of issues that happens, just like other appliance system do. It seems to be running postfix inside. Is this really necessary? Can we just have proxmox point to a real mailserver after all you are also providing your own VM mailserver. In the GUI I'd like to enter the 4 things, mailserver, auth username, password, from address. The main reason for this is that it seems proxmox is trying to send mail out as "root@apollo.localdomain" which doesn't work in my world!

I'm trying hard not to make hand changes to internal files which might get reset after updates etc.

Cheers,
--Guy

 

[martin]

I've just configured my proxmox systems to run backups onto an NFS fileserver. Two questions a rise from this:

1. what's your recommended way to make sure my NFS server is mounted after a reboot, or before the backup starts. This might be something you want to add in for other users too. I know I could write or edit and rc file but I want to make sure it doesn't get delete during updates.

use /etc/fstab (google for: etc fstab nfs example).
in our wiki there is an example to mount samba shares in fstab.
see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_-_Restore_-_Live_Migration

for the second question: wait a second.

 

[martin]

2. I had the proxmox system e-mail when the backup completed. which is nice. I'd like to have proxmox e-mail on all sorts of issues that happens, just like other appliance system do. It seems to be running postfix inside. Is this really necessary? Can we just have proxmox point to a real mailserver after all you are also providing your own VM mailserver. In the GUI I'd like to enter the 4 things, mailserver, auth username, password, from address. The main reason for this is that it seems proxmox is trying to send mail out as "root@apollo.localdomain" which doesn't work in my world!

I'm trying hard not to make hand changes to internal files which might get reset after updates etc.

Cheers,
--Guy

Just adapt the postfix configuration on your system - this is not overwritten during updates.

It looks that this issue is an installer/postfix issue and should be fixed after we moved from etch to lenny.

 

[Guy]

use /etc/fstab (google for: etc fstab nfs example).
in our wiki there is an example to mount samba shares in fstab.
see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_-_Restore_-_Live_Migration

for the second question: wait a second.

good point... forgot about fstab...

For everyone else here's my entry to fstab

NFS-Server.internal:/mnt/VLA/Backups/Proxmox/apollo /Backup nfs rw 0 0

Cheers,
--Guy