Backup VM config file

[rusty]

Hi everyone,
I installed proxmox with root zfs single disk just to test some stuff. The problem is when Im trying to zfs set mountpoint=/etc/pve/qemu-server rpool/config then after a reboot /etc/pve dir is wiped out. I've also tried zfs set mountpoint=/etc/pve rpool/config but then I'd get a message that pve dir is not empty and cant be mounted.
All I wanna do is to set a zfs mountpoint to config file dir so I can take snapshots of configs and send them somewhere else if needed. How can this be done ? Thank You

 

[dietmar]

All I wanna do is to set a zfs mountpoint to config file dir so I can take snapshots of configs and send them somewhere else if needed. How can this be done ? Thank You

The file system mounted at /etc/pve/ is a distributed, replicated cluster file system (pmxcfs). So you cannot mount anything else there.

 

[rusty]

so what would be a good way to automaticaly backup vm config files ?

 

[acidrop]

How about creating a simple script to copy the contents to another destination?
Put it as a cron job and that's it.

 

[rusty]

is there a way to make proxmox duplicate vm config file and paste into vm folder upon a vm creation ? i.e you create vm 100 and a config file goes /etc/pve/qemu-server/ and to /var/lib/vz/images/100/