Exclude groups in sync

[volker]

Hello everyone.

Is there a way to exclude certain groups (VMs/CTs) from a sync job?

I'm syncing to an usb HD. And while my PBS instance keeps a lot of backups I only want some of them in the usb storage. Can this be expressed using Group Filter?

Best Regards/Viele Grüße
....Volker

 

[Dunuin]

Did you see the group filters?:

If the group-filter option is set, only backup groups matching at least one of the specified criteria are synced. The available criteria are:

• backup type, for example to only sync groups of the ct(Container) type:
  # proxmox-backup-manager sync-job update ID --group-filter type:ct
  
  
• full group identifier
  # proxmox-backup-manager sync-job update ID --group-filter group:vm/100
  
  
• regular expression matched against the full group identifier

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/managing-remotes.html#sync-jobs

 

[limone]

Seems like exclusion is not supported...
wanted to use "vm/(?!762\b)\d+" to exclude vm/762

parameter verification errors

group-filter: regex parse error: vm/(?!762\b)\d+ ^^^ error: look-around, including look-ahead and look-behind, is not supported

 

[mkofahl]

What about an expression like ^vm/[^7]\d{2,3}$? Works for me to exclude VMs starting with ID 7. Additionally, there's a filter to include all other types.

 

[esvee]

I also would like to exclude a single containers backup from sync. In my case, the container is ct/104

Can someone help me with the regex to exclud ONLY this group, but back up all else, ie include all else vms/cts/hosts?

I can't see how to do it withot look-around, look-ahead and look-behind - which is not supported..