Backup VMs to HDD RAID1

[levtol]

Hello, community.

I have one SSD disk where Proxmox is installed, and it stores VMs I create.
Also, I have 2 2TB HDD disks, and I want to use them as a reliable RAID1 storage that will store my family photos, videos, etc.

But also I want to use this disks (part of them)
- To add disks for logs for my VMs
- A place where VM backups are stored.

Now I have only one place to store VM backups - it a "local" storage, where ISO files are situated.




I tried to create a ZFS pool, but it has no "VZDump backup option", that (I suppose) is needed for VM backup creation possibility.






If I try to add new "Directory", it is created only at one physical disk, but I need redundancy and RAID1 x2 read speed





So, how can I create a reliable storage to use it as VM additional disks AND a backup storage?

 

[_gabriel]

not from gui, but from shell, iirc it's in the Docs.

 

[levtol]

not from gui, but from shell, iirc it's in the Docs.

What do I do form shell? Backup VMs to ZFS pool?

 

[Maximiliano]

If I try to add new "Directory", it is created only at one physical disk, but I need redundancy and RAID1 x2 read speed

Note RAID1 will have more or less the same speed as the lowest common denominator of your two disks.

 

[levtol]

Note RAID1 will have more or less the same speed as the lowest common denominator of your two disks.

My HDDs are identical and I have 350MB consecutive read speed in RAID1

Anyway, the only one option I see is creating RAID1 with mdadm and adding it to Proxmox as a separate disk

 

[Dunuin]

You can store files like backups, photo and whatever on ZFS mirror (=raid1). You just need to create a new dataset (zfs create YourPool/NewDatasetName) first, then create new "Directory" storage at Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> Directory and point it to the mountpoint of that dataset (so probably "/YourPool/NewDatasetName"). That directory storge is then on top of your ZFS pool and a Directroy storage allows you to store backups there. And don't forget to run a pvesm set YourStorageID --is_mountpoint yes afterwards to prevent problems in the future.