Backup VM with shared storage

[Alessandro 123]

Hi to all
With local ZFS storage we can use pve-zsync, but how to properly backup VMs stored on a shared storage like gluster?

I don't think pve-zsync would work as there isn't any ZFS filesystem to backup.........

 

[tom]

See https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

 

[Alessandro 123]

Ok, so standard PVE backups applies.
Aren't incremental, right ?

 

[Alessandro 123]

So, if HA is not needed, local storage with ZFS is better allowing blazing fast backups by using the incremental zfs send with pve-zsync

Nothing similar with shared storage?
Are the VM backups always full or also incremental?

 

[fabian]

vzdump is always full (but sparse and optionally compressed).