VMS Backup Storage issue.

[Abu Sayed]

When I want to back up any of my VMs, only the local disk with minimal space is shown in the storage section. I have two other LVM disk groups , Size-3TB and 200GB . How can I increase the volume of those disks and include them in the image backup?

 

[Guillaume Delanoy]

Hello,

try Datacenter --> Storage --> Add --> LVM (or LVM-thin)
then backup into that new storage, rather than into local

Kind regards,

GD

 

[Abu Sayed]

Hi @

Guillaume Delanoy​

Backup Is not show here ? how I add those disk ?

 

[VictorSTS]

You need a flie level storage to be able to store files, like those created by vzdump backups [1]. You could manually create a volume in your LVM-thin, format it as ext4, mount it in a path and add it as a "directory" type storage.

This isn't a great idea, because you should have your backups at least in a different disk than those hosting your VMs, so you can recover when the disk fails. Of course, its better than nothing.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage#_storage_types