Backups do not work with many VMs

[fbrachere]

Hi,
I created a backup job with all the VMs (around 210) from my cluster and it doesn't work.
The GUI shows no error but cron is limited to 1000 characters and fire an error:

Jun 01 10:17:01 proxmox1 cron[2549]: (*system*vzdump) RELOAD (/etc/cron.d/vzdump)
Jun 01 10:17:01 proxmox1 cron[2549]: Error: command too long; while reading /etc/cron.d/vzdump
Jun 01 10:17:01 proxmox1 cron[2549]: (*system*vzdump) ERROR (Syntax error, this crontab file will be ignored)

I know I can split it in several backup jobs but the behavior of the GUI is buggy. I think it should not accept a backup job which cannot be converted to cron syntax, or do not use cron but systemd timer maybe.
The "Run now" button is ok, the backup job is started when I click on it.

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

you're right, you can submit a bug report to [1]. As a workaround, you can add all VMs to a pool and create a backup job for the pool.

[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/enter_bug.cgi