Vzdump with exclude path

[mklein]

Hi everyone,

I want to backup my VM with vzdump with exclude any folders because loading time is too long.

Command :
vzdump --exclude-path "/home/.+" --dumpdir /var/vzbackup/ 100

When i start this command, tmp backup contains /home/.

Have you got idea ?

 

[dietmar]

VM 100 is KVM or OpenVZ Container?

 

[mklein]

VM 100 is OpenVz container

 

[dietmar]

And /home/ contains files, or is it just an empty dir?

 

[mklein]

/home/ contains many files. These files will be saved directly from the container and not by vzdump

 

[dietmar]

/home/ contains many files. These files will be saved directly from the container and not by vzdump

Yes, but what is the content after the backup? Still files there? Or is the directory empty?

 

[mklein]

The backup is very long and host is very slow. During backup, i look tmp folder and /home/ folder exist with subfolder. I kill process backup after the end because my server is nearly saturated.

Command "exclude-path" exclude folders in the tar but not in the temporary folder ?

 

[dietmar]

Command "exclude-path" exclude folders in the tar but not in the temporary folder ?

yes

 

[mklein]

It is not optimized. What if for faster backups ? My VM of 50Gb take 8 hours to save.

 

[dietmar]

It is not optimized.

Feel free to send me a patch to fix that issue.

 

[mklein]

Ok
I'll add exclude command in the rsync.
Thx

 

[Gabrielko114]

Long Path Tool helped me in this situation. http://PathTooDeep.com