Garbage Collect Jobs

[_gabriel]

datastore: backuppool path /mnt/datastore/backuppool

You can remove these two lines directly with "nano", all files on disk will be kept.

 

[rakurtz]

Thanks. Feels so much safer than hitting "delete" and confirming the deletion of all data

This did the trick!

 

[IsThisThingOn]

Sorry for burring up this old post. I am pretty surprised that this issue does not arise more, but maybe most people don't use PBS to backup different customers.

I wonder how you ended in such a weird setup, why didn't you use namespaces right from the start?

Unlike namespaces, multiple datasets allow for different company specific settings. And it also show the storage usage of each customers, which you can't achive with namespaces.

So I was thinking about just creating multiple folders.
When using the web GUI to create a datastore, it seems to me like PBS creates a dataset and mount is to /mnt/datastore/name_of_your_pool.
So what worked in my testing, was to instead of using that datasets root (/mnt/datastore/name_of_your_pool),
I created the folders
/mnt/datastore/name_of_your_pool/dataset1 and /mnt/datastore/name_of_your_pool/dataset2.

After that I created dataset1 with the absolute path /mnt/datastore/name_of_your_pool/dataset1 and dataset2 with the path /mnt/datastore/name_of_your_pool/dataset2

Unfortunatly I am not sure about any negative implications this could potentially have and if Proxmox supports using such a config.

 

[_gabriel]

I am not sure about any negative implications this could potentially have and if Proxmox supports using such a config.

it works, and supported , it's up to you : dedup will not effective between datastores/folders, while namespaces are required to keep whole datastore dedup.