Hi
A brief bit of background for context: -
I have setup a (very) small home environment running PVE and PBS, the latter being a VM on the former ( don't judge me
). I have a 2TB SATA which contains PVE boot disk, ISOs, local (for basic backups) and a local-lvm thin pool which hosts my file server data. I also have an NVMe m.2 drive which has boot drives for various VMs, including the file server, and the PBS server. Finally, I have an external USB drive, which is exposed as a PBS backup datastore. My PBS VM is backed up daily to the "local" backup area of the 2TB drive, the rest of the machines are backed up via PBS.
I'm not mirroring etc and accept that any drive failure means "invoking disaster recovery process" This setup will replace my old ESXi rig, and before I decommission the former I'll be doing a rehearsal of the following (no critical data on there yet). These are the scenarios: -
The easiest way I can see to do this is to scp/rsync those files from the PVE host to the PBS host, to a directory on the external USB drive which is mounted at /mnt/datastore/external-2tb.
This datastore was setup within PBS, and has vm, ct and .chunks folders which of course are managed by PBS.
So to the actual question - if I create a directory e.g. hostbackup in this folder, will this break PBS - i.e. does it expect to fully control the entire filesystem - or can I happily do this without fear that PBS will get rid?
A brief bit of background for context: -
I have setup a (very) small home environment running PVE and PBS, the latter being a VM on the former ( don't judge me
). I have a 2TB SATA which contains PVE boot disk, ISOs, local (for basic backups) and a local-lvm thin pool which hosts my file server data. I also have an NVMe m.2 drive which has boot drives for various VMs, including the file server, and the PBS server. Finally, I have an external USB drive, which is exposed as a PBS backup datastore. My PBS VM is backed up daily to the "local" backup area of the 2TB drive, the rest of the machines are backed up via PBS.I'm not mirroring etc and accept that any drive failure means "invoking disaster recovery process"
This setup will replace my old ESXi rig, and before I decommission the former I'll be doing a rehearsal of the following (no critical data on there yet). These are the scenarios: -- If my 2TB drive dies, I buy and stick a new one in there, install PVE, let it see the NVMe drive so it can see my VMs and start the machines (obviously more complicated than that, but that's the principle).
- If my NVMe drive dies, I buy and install a new NVMe drive, recover my PBS VM from the local backup on the 2TB drive, then restore the rest of my machines from the PBS backup which is on the USB drive.
The easiest way I can see to do this is to scp/rsync those files from the PVE host to the PBS host, to a directory on the external USB drive which is mounted at /mnt/datastore/external-2tb.
This datastore was setup within PBS, and has vm, ct and .chunks folders which of course are managed by PBS.
So to the actual question - if I create a directory e.g. hostbackup in this folder, will this break PBS - i.e. does it expect to fully control the entire filesystem - or can I happily do this without fear that PBS will get rid?
