Protected backups

[VictorSTS]

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out if in the current version of PBS is there a way to setup "protected backups". The meaning of "protected" here is that those backups can't be deleted from any Proxmox Server and must be deleted from PBS itself.

The idea for this arises from the lifecycle for some of our VM, which have a limited lifetime (say 6 months), then they are removed from the Proxmox Cluster but we must keep a copy of them for say 2 years. So we need an "archive" of VM's which we have implemented using the retention policies. But if that the moment we remove the VM from Proxmox Cluster we accidentally click on "purge", all backups get deleted leaving us with neither the VM nor any of it's backups.

Is there any way to configure this in PBS or Proxmox Cluster?
Thanks!

 

[dcsapak]

there is an enhancement request that describes something similar: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3307
(though it is not the same)

maybe add your thoughts too, so it can be incorporated into a potential implementation?

otherwise, we plan (sometime in the future) to mark backups on pbs as 'protected' or 'locked' that cannot be removed except by removing the lock/protection

 

[VictorSTS]

Just wrote some thoughts regarding protected backups in that request. Thanks for the suggestion!