[SOLVED] Change backup jobs

[markusbernhard]

Hi.
I have a pve cluster of 7 nodes. Today I am running one backup job per server, but I need to change that in order to be able to exclude a VM on a clusterwide scale. VM's might migrate to other hosts, and since I only can exclude VM's on the hosts they're running on, that is a problem.

If i delete the existing backup jobs, or change them into resource pool based backup jobs instead, will there be a full backup of the vm's, or can they use the old restorepoints and do incremental?
best regards
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Markus

 

[UdoB]

If i delete the existing backup jobs, or change them into resource pool based backup jobs instead, will there be a full backup of the vm's, or can they use the old restorepoints and do incremental?

Editing/deleting the jobs and creating new ones will not touch or damage the old, existing backups.

Creating new jobs will work as usual: a backup job will check which chunks were changed and if new/modified data is found it is included in the new backup.

Each and every backup made is a full backup. At the same time each and every backup is incremental as it will only transfer new data (in chunks) from the source to the PBS.

 

[markusbernhard]

Editing/deleting the jobs and creating new ones will not touch or damage the old, existing backups.

Creating new jobs will work as usual: a backup job will check which chunks were changed and if new/modified data is found it is included in the new backup.

Each and every backup made is a full backup. At the same time each and every backup is incremental as it will only transfer new data (in chunks) from the source to the PBS.

Thanks.
Yeah, I read up on it a little more, just to make sure.
I created a job for the entire cluster instead, and can exclude a VM no matter what host it's on.
Thanks for your reply.