Hi.
We're using Proxmox 3.1-20 and we'd like to force vzdump to use gzip as compression algorithm for it's automated backup tasks. Is there any way to do this? I know that I can start it manually with: vzdump -all --compress gzip, or edit /etc/vzdump.conf but there's no option to specify compression method, and adding "compress: gzip" made vzdump complain abiut broken config file.
We don't really care about CPU usage, since our backups are performed at night, when the servers are almost completely idle. Is there any way to achieve such a change?
We've been thinking about replacing Proxmox's internal backup schedule with our own script launched via cron, that simple (albeit hacky) solution should work, right?
EDIT: Got myself an answer and it seems I must've been blind a bit
You can select your prefferred backup format on "Backup" tab while in "Datacenter" view.
We're using Proxmox 3.1-20 and we'd like to force vzdump to use gzip as compression algorithm for it's automated backup tasks. Is there any way to do this? I know that I can start it manually with: vzdump -all --compress gzip, or edit /etc/vzdump.conf but there's no option to specify compression method, and adding "compress: gzip" made vzdump complain abiut broken config file.
We don't really care about CPU usage, since our backups are performed at night, when the servers are almost completely idle. Is there any way to achieve such a change?
We've been thinking about replacing Proxmox's internal backup schedule with our own script launched via cron, that simple (albeit hacky) solution should work, right?
EDIT: Got myself an answer and it seems I must've been blind a bit
You can select your prefferred backup format on "Backup" tab while in "Datacenter" view.
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