Backup VM with duplicate VM id's on single datastore

[Kevin Smith]

Hello,
I have several PROXMOX Servers and I would like to make backup of all VM to single Proxmox Backup Server with a single datastore.

The problem is that the VM IDs of each VM are duplicated on another server.

I know I can change VM id's - but it's not an easy task. I can also create on Proxmox backup separate datastores for each server.
Do you know other solutions ?

I'm using Backup Server 3.2-2.

Thanks in advance,
Kevin

 

[Neobin]

Namespaces:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/storage.html#backup-namespaces

 

[Kevin Smith]

Namespaces:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/storage.html#backup-namespaces

Thanks for info. Looks like what I'm looking for

 

[tcabernoch]

This might help in the long run as well.
You can set each cluster (or standalone server) to a specific VMID range.
Namespaces can be necessary in some scenarios, but its just easier if your VMs have unique IDs across your enterprise, and there's a straightforward way to make that happen.

Guest VMID Auto-Selection​

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cluster_Manager#pvecm_next_id_range

 

[Kevin Smith]

This might help in the long run as well.
You can set each cluster (or standalone server) to a specific VMID range.
Namespaces can be necessary in some scenarios, but its just easier if your VMs have unique IDs across your enterprise, and there's a straightforward way to make that happen.

Guest VMID Auto-Selection​

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cluster_Manager#pvecm_next_id_range

Thanks for info, but I currently I don't have cluster.
As far I know cluster is not available if I have different version of Proxmox on each server.

 

[tcabernoch]

A standalone server is its own cluster.
Here. Go look at one of your servers. (aka clusters.)
You can set each one so it has its own range of VMIDs for any new VMs created.

 

[Kevin Smith]

A standalone server is its own cluster.
Here. Go look at one of your servers. (aka clusters.)
You can set each one so it has its own range of VMIDs for any new VMs created.

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[Kevin Smith]

Thanks for info!