I wish to preserve a backups from various datasources (at least 2) into a new datasource with a much longer data retention time, the only thing I can seem to do is to a sync between datasources, but that will bring in data from all vm's, I just need a specific vm to be synced over with a longer data retention period, any ideas for me?
Copy vm backups from datasource to another (similar to sync)
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PBS will split every VM into thousands of small 4MB chucks and reuse them for different VMs (deduplication). So I think it is not possible to sync only specific VMs (or atleast that would be very difficult...like parsing all the chunk index files of all snapshots, pick only the ones needed for all of the VM backups and also delete them later from your sync target after the PBS garbage collection has trashed individual chunks).
What you could do is to create two thin provisioned PBS datastores and create two backup jobs using different datastores with different backup retentions.
What you could do is to create two thin provisioned PBS datastores and create two backup jobs using different datastores with different backup retentions.
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Ah yes, going forward that would be helpful, but you see, I have some backups/data that can't be deleted for the forseeable future, so I either need to get them onto a datastore with a longer retention time, or download the backup....
I could get a drive that'll fit the entire synced datastore.... seems the only efficient way to do this. and to delete the vm backups I do not need on the higher retention datastore.
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As far as I know they are working on a feature to exclude specific VM snapshots from regular backup retention. Then it would be possible to block specific backups so they won't get deleted by the backup retention. But not sure when that will be ready. But if your backups are so important then it might be a good idea anyway to get another drive so you can backup your backups.
Yeah, thanks. Like I said, I'll get a larger drive that can fit all of the datastores backup, then trim the ones I don't need.
Eagerly await exclusions for retentions, etc.