help getting vzdump to add VM name

[rkennedy]

hello,

Does anyone know how to get the name of the VM server added to the vzdump name. The problem is when you remove a vm and restore it from a backup to different vm number, you have a hard time remembering which backup goes with which server. So if the name of the vm was in the backup name that would help.

Thanks for your help

Robert

 

[m.ardito]

well, the only way atm is extract the conf from the vma (possible but not easy nor fast).
otherwise
- look the backup log mailed: there is name and vmid
- or you could setup a pre/post backup job to back up all active conf.

in the 1.x days I patched vzdump myself to append vm name to the (at the time) tar.gz, but then updates came and lost all that.
surely vzdump changed muche since then but I could try to find what I did, if anyone needs.

many people would like that to happen.

Marco

 

[screenie]

have the same issue - impossible to remember except you have very detailed documentation somewhere;
the workaround i use is that i have 4 nodes - all vm's on node one have vm id starting with 1, on node two all vm's starting with node id 2, ...

works fine for me