PVE - Backups
Revision as of 16:36, 15 May 2022 by Tinker (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Backups are important. '''Incredibly important.''' <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;">'''Do Your Backups!'''</span> That said, manual backups kinda suck. & PVE backups through the Web UI are manual backups. If you want to do automated backups, you'll do them through the CLI (Probably using cron...) The tool PVE provides is [https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/vzdump.1.html vzdump]. ==...")
Backups are important.
Incredibly important.
Do Your Backups!
That said, manual backups kinda suck.
& PVE backups through the Web UI are manual backups.
If you want to do automated backups, you'll do them through the CLI (Probably using cron...)
The tool PVE provides is vzdump.
Some examples
Selecting which VMs to backup
vzdump VMID
Backs up a specific VM.
vzdump --all
Backs up ALL of the VMs on the node.
vzdump VMID1 VMID2 VMID3
Backs up the 3 specified VMs.
Selecting WHERE to put the backups
vzdump VMID --storage Datastore
Backs up the VM to the selected Datastore.
vzdump VMID --dumpdir Location
Backs up the VM to a specific location on the underlying (bare-metal) filesystem.
Adding notes to the backup
vzdump VMID --notes-template "This is a note about the backup"
You can even embed identifying information automatically into your note. (The variables: {{cluster}}, {{guestname}}, {{node}}, and {{vmid}} are available.)