Hello Jeff. This is one of the features of Vmware Data Recovery, an appliance of the Essential Plus (and not only) suite.
I already use BackupPC for my own VMs, but for customer's VMs I can't use an OS solution. And for a complete and quick disaster recovery, is easier a total VM restore. The perfect backup solution will be a block-level incremental backup (http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Livebackup) that is not still included in Qemu, but I hope it could be soon. In vmware this is VCB (Vmware Consolidated Backup). I know that in some cases (databases and similar) without an agent we could have a not perfect backup, but is a great start point. Regards, Fabrizio ----- Messaggio originale ----- > > is this really the hypervisor's job? > > it sounds like you need a more robust solution, so you might > entertain > either BackupPC, Bacula, or AMANDA. > > > Jeff > > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 13:58 +0200, Fabrizio Cuseo wrote: > > Hello people. > > > > I am seeing that Proxmox misses a very important features about > > backup retention. > > > > An example could be: > > > > - Last week, N backup daily > > - Last month, N backup weekly > > - Last year, N backup monthly > > > > So, with a total of 9 backups, I could have: > > > > - The last 3 daily backups > > - The last 3 weekly backups > > - The last 3 montly backups > > > > Another nice feature could be a "pool" selection of VM's to backup, > > so adding a VM in the pool will insert the VM in the backup > > schedule. > > > > Also the machine name in the backup file will be useful (i have > > already read about it in the mailing list). > > > > Thanks, Fabrizio > > > > > > > > > > > -- --- Fabrizio Cuseo - mailto:[email protected] Direzione Generale - Panservice InterNetWorking Servizi Professionali per Internet ed il Networking Panservice e' associata AIIP - RIPE Local Registry Phone: +39 0773 410020 - Fax: +39 0773 470219 http://www.panservice.it mailto:[email protected] Numero verde nazionale: 800 901492 _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
