New testing Proxmox 5.2

[SteffanN]

Hello All,

Im new to proxmox, testing it to replease my openvz servers.
i have now setup proxmox 5.2
with 4 disks raid 10

Did the default install.
im now looking on the backup options.
on openVZ i am using rsync for incremental backups of the containers.
On proxmox this is not possible as it is not mounting as a filesystem.

I have clients dat wants 0.0% downtime for backups.
i read abouth zsf having no downtime, but the installation didnt make any zsf only lvm




df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 18M 3.2G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root 67G 5.1G 59G 8% /
tmpfs 16G 46M 16G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/fuse 30M 32K 30M 1% /etc/pve
tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/0

lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/pve/swap' [8.00 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/pve/root' [68.25 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/pve/data' [177.28 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/pve/vm-301-disk-0' [125.00 GiB] inherit

any pointers what the best setup will be for this?

 

[bobmc]

There is a built-in backup system in proxmox. If you're using ZFS for your containers you can backup using ZFS-Snapshots with no downtime. Add a storage location to the cluster and you can specify this as a backup location.

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

You can do snapshot backup with all storages what supports snapshots.
I guess you have a thin-lvm default installation so yes you can use backups in snapshot mode.