[SOLVED] Can you perform an action without a log entry appearing in the cluster log?

[TheFuzzyFish]

So I recently made a cron job that, every 6 hours, would take a snapshot of every VM (just to have faster and up-to-date backups to protect against user error). Everything is flawless and I have yet to encounter any issues.

BUT there is one hiccup that is getting rather annoying: the cluster log is being stuffed with repeated task logs of all the snapshots (see attached image)


Is there any way to use the "qm" cli tool to silently perform a snapshot to avoid this problem? Or maybe some other clever way to remove the log entries as they appear?

 

[mailinglists]

While not really the answer you are looking for, if using ZFS, snapshots can be created outside PM API / tools and will not be logged.

 

[TheFuzzyFish]

Interesting, but you're right, I should've mentioned that these are LVM-Thin snapshots on PVE 5.2

 

[mailinglists]

My _guess_ is that when using PVE tools or API, you will always have your actions logged.
I would not want to have it any other way.

But _maybe_, you can use lvm2 directly, as I do with ZFS and it does not show up in PVE logs.

 

[TheFuzzyFish]

I didn't want to stray far from the tools to avoid catastrophic "whoopsies," especially considering I don't have a test PVE box to play with, so I probably won't look into that. But good suggestion, I'll keep it in mind.

Thank you!