Naming backups from proxmox-backup-client

[adoII]

I just tested proxmox-backup-client on a client named web1 and i noticed that the name of the backup in the datastore was "web1".
Since I have many web1 i wonder how I could give the backup set a more descriptive name ?

 

[dcsapak]

you can give the backup any id with the 'backup-id' parameter

e.g.

proxmox-backup-client backup ... --backup-id "mycustomid"

 

[adoII]

Thanks, the parameter backup-id is indeed accepted but strange things happen.
When i execute a backup with: proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --backup-id "lb01.domainname" the backup is done but it is never shown in the datastore in the webinterface. Maybe the dot is an illegal character ?

 

[dcsapak]

Maybe the dot is an illegal character ?

well not quite, we have 2 formats, but this is a bug, i'll send a patch later/next week for that

btw i opened a bug for that: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3039