I have your same problem; backup strategy and software is a priority for a lot of vendors; vmware have both backup (with dedup and flexible retention policy) and replication; veeam is a great suite and is a must-have for a more complex and big cluster. I know that proxmox is based on community software, and backup (i mean incremental backup) is not simple, but i can't believe that all the users are satisfied with vzdump. I personaly miss: - a retention policy different from "the last" backups; i know that i can write script to move and rotate some backups, but simplicity is the winner; if i could select in the backup option a "keep last X daily/weekly/monthly/yearly backups", all is simpler and error free - an incremental backup; this is really the big miss. I have too long backup windows, so i can't backup the vm every day. And I can't use backuppc/bacula or some other guest-based backup software, when i use proxmox to host vm for customers, - backup verification (it can be useful)
Regarding incremental backups, based on dirty blocks, i don't know if this feature is usable: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/IncrementalBackup But, even if only with some kind of storage backend, we could make incremental backups. Using ceph (that is fully supported by proxmox), is possibile to make incremental (or differential) backups, based on snapshots. I have manually tested with "rbd --export-diff" on ceph snapshots, and works like a charm. So i think that, even if only for ceph storage, it can be developed (zfs solution can be similar) No one need to have a better backup support ? Regards, Fabrizio ----- Il 17-feb-16, alle 14:19, Gilberto Nunes <[email protected]> ha scritto: > you know... more than one backup never is too much > 2016-02-17 10:48 GMT-02:00 Alwin Antreich < [email protected] > : >> As an idea, if you have a separate disk for your data and you already create >> backups inside your VM, why not skip the >> backup of this VM disk? In case of an emergency you may need to restore your >> backups inside the VM anyway. So it might >> be faster in the event of a disaster to recreate the disk and restore your >> backups inside the VM. As you said an email >> earlier, the backup of the disk takes a long time, so might also the restore. >> Regards, >> Alwin >> On 02/17/2016 01:31 PM, Gilberto Nunes wrote: >> > Yes Alwin... >> > I consider to make backup from account as well, in separate method... >>> I am concern about the VM backup when send this e-mail, 'cause inside the >>> VM I >> > already have accounts backup... >> > Thanks a lot for your advice.... >>> 2016-02-17 10:25 GMT-02:00 Alwin Antreich < [email protected] >>> <mailto: >> > [email protected] >>: >> > Hi all, >> > @Gilberto >>> please keep in mind, to get consistent backups you need to backup your >>> zimbra >> > database by different means then by only >> > taking a snapshot. >> > Regards, >> > Alwin >> > On 02/17/2016 01:05 PM, Pongrácz István wrote: >> > > Consider to use zfs for proxmox and use its snapshot/send/receive >> > > methods. >>> > Taking a snapshot usually less than a second and you can send the >>> > incremental >> > > changes over the network. >>> > You should check your existing systems and decide, is it worth to change >>> > your >> > > system or not. >> > > Bye, >> > > István >> > > ----------------eredeti üzenet----------------- >>> > Feladó: "Gilberto Nunes" < [email protected] <mailto: >> > > [email protected] >> >>> > Címzett: "PVE User List" < [email protected] <mailto: >> > > [email protected] >> >> > > Dátum: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:49:08 -0200 >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> Thank you guys... I will study all suggestions and choose the best >> > >> one... >> > >> Thanks a lot >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > pve-user mailing list >> > > [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] > >> > > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pve-user mailing list >> > [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] > >> > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user >> > -- >> > Gilberto Ferreira >> > +55 (47) 9676-7530 >> > Skype: gilberto.nunes36 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pve-user mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user >> _______________________________________________ >> pve-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user > -- > Gilberto Ferreira > +55 (47) 9676-7530 > Skype: gilberto.nunes36 > _______________________________________________ > pve-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user -- --- 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
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