Possible to limit storage in a namespace?

[CelticWebs]

Simple question that may or may not have a simple answer.

If I've got for example 40TB datastore setup in PBS, then I had 3 different people to backup to it. One user will hog all the storage if they're not limited. So is it possible to setup 3 differnet name spaces but limit the storage capacity based on the namespace? That way I could say user1 Namespace, 5TB, User2 Namespace 10Tb, user3 Namespace 1TB etc. Is this possible?

 

[ggoller]

Hi!
sadly this is not possible for namespaces, but you can still create datastores for each user!
If you use something like zfs, you can create a dataset and assign quotas for each datastore.

 

[news]

You must run also the Proxmox BS internal process and an "clean up/ delete" for every user after ex. 10 Backup.

 

[CelticWebs]

Hi!
sadly this is not possible for namespaces, but you can still create datastores for each user!
If you use something like zfs, you can create a dataset and assign quotas for each datastore.

Thanks for the response, is this possible via the GUI?

 

[CelticWebs]

Just realised how easy it is to do from command line anyway.

For anyone looking you simple create the Dataset using

zfs create POOLNAME/DATASETNAME

you can then change the size limit using

zfs set quota=2000G POOLNAME/DATASETNAME

Extremely straight forward!

Shame it's not available in the GUI but not real hardship.