Scheduling backups (node by node)

[mproxk]

I have 4 nodes and a Pi with HDD for image backups.

There is option to limit bandwidth and also the backups are done one by one on a node, however all 4 nodes are running the backups in parallel and putting pressure on the PI.

Is there a way to make backups go node by node...so only one container is backed up at a time? I do not see it as option in GUI. I can make different schedules per hosts but that messy

 

[lucavornheder]

Hi,
as far as i know, it is not possible at the moment

 

[Lukas Moravek]

Hello @mproxk

you can manually mount SMB share to on each PVE node and schedule with crontab

The cmd in contrab should be:

vzdump 100 --storage /mnt/backup --mode snapshot --compress zstd

If you new to linux, this require some skills (not hard to achieve, smb mount, smb mount in fstab and crontab), it is not hard to learn.

if you consider to use PBS in future (PBS , there is option via cli / cmd and crontab

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html

L.