Same VM number from multiple servers

[solv]

Hi,
I have one standalone proxmox server with some Windows VM's for work, and another PVE cluster for testing.
I have just setup PBS on the standalone on a spare zfs pool, and pointed both proxmox installations to use it for backups.
I noticed that if I back say a Win10 VM called vm101 from standalone, and then backup a Ubuntu VM aslo called vm101 from the cluster then PBS lumps them both together in the datastore view, so there's no way of telling which one is from which server/cluster.

Anyway, not sure if this is intended or just because it's beta and still lots of stuff to work out, but thought I'd mention it

 

[oversite]

Hi,
I have one standalone proxmox server with some Windows VM's for work, and another PVE cluster for testing.
I have just setup PBS on the standalone on a spare zfs pool, and pointed both proxmox installations to use it for backups.
I noticed that if I back say a Win10 VM called vm101 from standalone, and then backup a Ubuntu VM aslo called vm101 from the cluster then PBS lumps them both together in the datastore view, so there's no way of telling which one is from which server/cluster.

Anyway, not sure if this is intended or just because it's beta and still lots of stuff to work out, but thought I'd mention it

It's probably a matter of taste, but i do use one datastore for each environment to keep them apart. It's only another folder anyway.

 

[solv]

yeah it's no real biggy...I could also just use different VM ID's if it came to that...like start at 200 or whatever

 

[fabian]

we might introduce some sort of namespacing feature in the future - but for now going with one datastore per backed up cluster is they way to go (just like previously the recommendation was separate NFS/CIFS exports per cluster)

 

[slize26]

we might introduce some sort of namespacing feature in the future - but for now going with one datastore per backed up cluster is they way to go (just like previously the recommendation was separate NFS/CIFS exports per cluster)

Is there an update on the namespacing for PBS? I missed to give each VM a custom ID and now i would either need to add two new disks for a new datastore or to copy my vms with a different id.

 

[fabian]

a datastore is just a directory, you don't need extra disks to add more datastores.

 

[slize26]

a datastore is just a directory, you don't need extra disks to add more datastores.

Got it, thank you. I just moved the "vm" and "ct" folders from the root of the datastore to a subfolder and created a new datastore on it. That works but the backups that are already on the disk are no longer restorable.

 

[fabian]

you also need to move the '.chunks' directory which contains the actual backup data..