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Looking to back up enough for a bare metal restore of an up to date PVE, ZFS install from ISO. I'm using

Code: 
proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository $PBS_REPOSITORY --include-dev /boot/efi --include-dev /etc/pve --include-dev /rpool --exclude /rpool/data

but I am getting

Code: 
skipping mount point: "dev"
skipping mount point: "mnt/swap"
skipping mount point: "proc"
skipping mount point: "rpool/ROOT"
skipping mount point: "run"
skipping mount point: "sys"
skipping mount point: "var/lib/lxcfs"

A) I shouldn't skip "rpool/ROOT" according to the "--include-dev /rpool" part. It should skip "rpool/data". The opposite happened. PS: there is some uncertainty regarding the path for exclusions, I tried both of the options mentioned here.

UPDATE: the correct parameters are "proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository $PBS_REPOSITORY --include-dev /boot/efi --include-dev /etc/pve --include-dev /rpool/ROOT --include-dev /rpool/ --exclude /data"

I also noted

Code: 
root.pxar: had to backup 25.22 GiB of 25.573 GiB (compressed 22.741 GiB) in 2088.32s
root.pxar: average backup speed: 12.367 MiB/s
root.pxar: backup was done incrementally, reused 361.524 MiB (1.4%)
Uploaded backup catalog (1.675 MiB)
Duration: 2090.66s

B) this was the first backup. does this look like proper output for a first backup?

C) Lastly, do I have the right parameters to build enough for a bare metal restore?
 
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Proxygen said:
C) Lastly, do I have the right parameters to build enough for a bare metal restore?
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There are also config files outside of "/etc/pve". For example "/etc/hosts", "/etc/resolv.conf", "/etc/network/interfaces", "/etc/vzdump.conf", ... . Keep in mind that PVE isn't an appliance, its a full fledged linux with hundreds of services. So I would backup the whole "/etc" folder.
 
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Dunuin said:
There are also config files outside of "/etc/pve". For example "/etc/hosts", "/etc/resolv.conf", "/etc/network/interfaces", "/etc/vzdump.conf", ... . Keep in mind that PVE isn't an appliance, its a full fledged linux with hundreds of services. So I would backup the whole "/etc" folder.
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/etc gets backed up entirely!
/etc/pve has to be specified bc it is a mount point, and PBS doesn't back them up by default.
 
I will need to exclude /var/lib/vz, bc I don't want backups (only content there) being backed up with the host.

Do I need to include every dir in /var/lib/ only so I can exclude /var/lib/vz? seems to be how this works now.
 
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