/etc/pve/* not really on ZFS filesystem?

[mailinglists]

Hi,

am I backing up via ZFS send pve root (rpool/ROOT/pve-1).
It works fine, so I mount it via zfs mount on target node and it mounts.
I can see pretty much every file, except for /etc/pve/*
Seems like /etc/pve/* - the PM configuration is some sort of overlay over the actual filesystem and it will not get replicated with ZFS. I can observe fuse mount:

/dev/fuse on /etc/pve type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other)

So in order to get the data backed up (VM config files, etc) I must manually save that to one of the replicated ZFS datasetsc (eg. tar czvpf /root/pve.conf.tar.gz /etc/pve or cp -ra /etc/pve /root/), or is there somewhere a local copy already, that got transferred, which I can access from the backup side?

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

as you noticed /etc/pve is a fuse mound of a sqlite db locaded under /var/lib/pve-cluster/config.db

 

[LnxBil]

So in order to get the data backed up (VM config files, etc) I must manually save that to one of the replicated ZFS datasetsc (eg. tar czvpf /root/pve.conf.tar.gz /etc/pve or cp -ra /etc/pve /root/), or is there somewhere a local copy already, that got transferred, which I can access from the backup side?

It is backed up as @wolfgang already pointed out, but it is not as easy to access (you need to have sqlite bin and know the table layout, create SQL queries and such). I normally use a cron-job that rsync the contents of /etc/pve/ to a zfs filesystem and snapshots it for easier access to the data in case of a restore.