[SOLVED] Wildcards in backup starting time schedulig

[Javier Vilarroig]

Hi.

I have a Proxmox VE 6.4-13 host.

There's a group of CTs for what I want to have a backup run every 30 minutes.

AFAIK, is not possible to configure that in a single backup job line. The scheduler only allows to specify one single starting time.

That leaves me with only the option to create 48 backup jobs, one for ever sharp hour and half hour in the day.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance
Javier Vilarroig

 

[sephkeene]

Good morning,

If you take a look at the below link it lays out the format for scheduling backups.

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/calendarevents.html

For your example though, if you wanted to perform a backup every 30 minutes you can use the following syntax: *:00/30

 

[Javier Vilarroig]

Thanks for the info

For what I understand from the documentation, this calendarevents are available in PBS for launching verifies, garbage collection, and so on.

But backups are launched at the PVE. I have not found any reference to that in PVE.

 

[sephkeene]

I looked for them too, and didn't find them. But the scheduling format is the same I believe.

 

[Matthias.]

Calendar events also exist in the PVE: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#chapter_calendar_events
In the GUI, you can start a backup job via Datacenter -> Backup -> Add. Click on "Schedule" and it shows you some examples; one among them is "Every 30 minutes".

 

[Javier Vilarroig]

Hi Mattias.

Thanks for your feedback.

When I try to add a backup I get that dialog that is not offering me any flexible scheduling option.

 

[Neobin]

Not sure what was/is possible with the old scheduler, but afaik the above mentioned scheduler was introduced quite recently with the release of PVE 7.1 [1]:

Improved, more flexible scheduling options for backup jobs.
Backup jobs are now run by a new scheduler daemon (pvescheduler) and support the same more flexible calendar-event schedules already known from the verify and garbage-collection jobs in Proxmox Backup Server.

Augmented scheduling options for backups.
Backup jobs are now run by a new scheduler daemon (pvescheduler) and support the more flexible schedule-options known from Proxmox Backup Server verify and garbage collection jobs (which in turn are inspired by systemd-timers).

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_7.1

 

[Javier Vilarroig]

Ouch. I'm on PVE-6.4.

Ok. If I understand correctly that means that I must upgrade my setup to have that functionality.

Thanks to all!

 

[EllyMae]

Take a look at this page:
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/systemd/systemd.time.7.en.html