The accepted best practice is to automate the creation of VMs via infra as code and configuration management. Then only backup the necessary data.
This has a large number of advantages. * You don't backup standard system files / binaries, reducing the cost of your backup storage space. * You don't carry forward corruption in system files, requiring bisection of backup snapshots in order to find the corruption. Instead you can simply wipe the system and restore the data. * Your system is more reproducible, as your restore tests fully exercise the creation of the VM from scratch. * Upgrades are easier, you can use your automated provisioning to create a new instance with whatever new software loadout you want. Then restore backups and test. This has been a standard recommendation for at least 10-15 years. On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM Doug Meredith <doug.j.mered...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Ben. I looked at the link you sent, but if I > understand it correctly, this command creates a TSDB snapshot, probably for > extraction or copy purposes. Some sort of quiesce command is what would > normally be used for the VM backup. I could always shut down Prometheus, > but I'd rather not, if I don't have to. > > Incidentally, how are full VM backups inconsistent with best practices? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/8da91ad6-776d-48c9-ab7f-193893dff909n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/8da91ad6-776d-48c9-ab7f-193893dff909n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABbyFmop7rXxvbUo12N%3DZLZhdDhENktz08PqeqfB38gM5O8s6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
