Easy way to backup all VMs via the API, without enumerating them one by one?

[victorhooi]

Hi,

We have a test lab for users to spin up VMs on demand.

Is there an easy way to call backup on all created VMs, without needing to explicitly specify the set?

(As a hack, I assume we can enumerate the VMs using the API, and then call backup individually on each one - but I wondered if there was perhaps a cleaner way, to just do a bulk "backup all my VMs please!")

Regards,
Victor

 

[fabian]

backups are per node, not cluster wide, but yeah, simply set the "all" parameter and don't pass in a VMID

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html#/nodes/{node}/vzdump

 

[S_N]

@fabian I am using vzdump with API over bash, but I am not able to create backup.
curl --insecure --cookie "PVEAuthCookie=token" --header "CSRFPreventionToken:CSRFtoken" -X POST https://serverip/api2/json/nodes/nodename/vzdump{"vmid"="115"}
Can help if there something wrong with command

 

[fabian]

you can simply copy a curl command from your browser's dev console and adapt it..

 

[Mirmanium]

Update: Nevermind... don't know why didn't work before but trying it again by adding vmids as a parameters works.

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Is it possible with one curl command to copy several vmid using the API? I would like to replicate same behaviour than a backup job but with API. Now I have one curl per each backup and would like to simplify it a bit.
I tried to add vmid=XXX&vmid=YYY and so on but only first one is back it up.