PVE cluster disaster recovery

sket

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May 26, 2011
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Hi,

we are running Proxmox VE in a 2-node cluster configuration + DRBD with KVM-based VMs. We do regular backups of the VMs and transfer the VM backup data to an offsite location.

We would like to have a complete disaster recovery plan which enables us to rebuild the whole cluster setup from scratch and restore the VMs (bare metal recovery) in a reasonable time (4-8h).

It looks like the PVE and KVM VM configuration data is stored under /etc/pve and /etc/qemu-server. Is it enough to backup these configuration data and the DRBD and LVM configuration of both nodes to do to do a full system restore? What else has to be considered to be able to do a bare metal recovery?

regards,

stephan.
 
I suggest you also backup the whole /etc. Do regular tests and and document the steps of your setup/recovery.