Change the defaults for 'Backup Now'

[shantanu]

Hi,
I am using PVE 5.3 (with updates).
Is it possible to specify/change the defaults for the 'Backup Now' option?

The default is always 'local' for 'Storage' and 'LZO' compression.
I would like to have 'GZIP' as my default 'Compression' and possibly a different storage location.



Regards,
Shantanu

 

[shantanu]

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[dcsapak]

Is it possible to specify/change the defaults for the 'Backup Now' option?

no this is currently not possible for the gui, but you could open an enhancement request on our bugtracker [1], no promises though as to if/when we implement such a thing

1: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/

 

[shantanu]

Done!
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034

 

[jieiku]

I just came here looking for this, was hoping to change the default mode for the "Backup now" button to use Stop instead of Snapshot, and also to use a different Storage location.

So far using proxmox has been a real treat once up and running. I only had two issues and they were during the install:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/keyboard-does-not-work-during-installation.31922
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/unable-to-install-no-cdrom-found.42043/

 

[jieiku]

To change the default Backup mode for "Backup Now" from Snapshot to Stop:

sed -i 's/value: 'snapshot',/value: 'stop',/' /usr/share/pve-manager/js/pvemanagerlib.js

I think an ideal way for this to function instead were if it simply remembered the last setting you used, but it dont sound like this is a high priority item so I just edited the file.

 

[psionic]

To change the default Backup mode for "Backup Now" from Snapshot to Stop:

sed -i 's/value: 'snapshot',/value: 'stop',/' /usr/share/pve-manager/js/pvemanagerlib.js

I think an ideal way for this to function instead were if it simply remembered the last setting you used, but it dont sound like this is a high priority item so I just edited the file.

I tried this and it still used snapshot as default...