The pve-zsync tool is a very useful addition. If I'm planning to use it for regular VM snapshots, can it or does it issue an FS freeze when using the qemu guest agent? In other words, will I have such a consistent backup like when using vzdump with the agent?
pve-zsync and VM freeze
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That's nice to hear!
Until then, I'd like to script it for my needs. Can you recommend a way to acheive that by using the PVE API, command line or such? I've never used the API and related facilities yet, but I'd just need a small initial guidance on where to start, if possible.
Until then, I'd like to script it for my needs. Can you recommend a way to acheive that by using the PVE API, command line or such? I've never used the API and related facilities yet, but I'd just need a small initial guidance on where to start, if possible.
Well, until then there's a simple method for scripting using pvesh. It works fine and will suffice for my current needs. It does't work with pve-zsync so I'll need to use my own zfs backup wrapper. That should be addressed when pve-zsync natively supports this feature someday.
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Anybody know if fs freeze got included after all? I looked around, also in the commits, but did not find a clear answer.
Hi,
I don't think this ever got added in
pve-zsync. Guest freeze/thaw is done for the integrated replication jobs in Proxmox VE. Feel free to open a feature request (after checking for duplicates): https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/ To set expectations: unfortunately, development of pve-zsync is pretty much inactive nowadays, so it could be a long time until it gets addressed.Thanks for the answer. It also confirms what i tought.
Any other tools or suggestions to replicate some lxc/vm's to a not clustered proxmox server?