[PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Wondering if anyone can suggest a reason for this. I have 7 VM's being backed off a node, direct to a USB3 external disk via a Directory based Storage 6 of the VM's have backup times varying from 8 min to 52 min. The dh -h sizes of their disks vary from 16GB to 57GB. The 7th vm has a du size

Re: [PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-27 Thread Bart Lageweg | Bizway
You can try set in /etc/vzdump.conf ionice: 0 bwlimit: 500 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: pve-user [mailto:pve-user-boun...@pve.proxmox.com] Namens Lindsay Mathieson Verzonden: donderdag 27 februari 2014 21:38 Aan: pve-user pve. proxmox. com Onderwerp: [PVE-User] Radical difference

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2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I love getting up in the morning to emails saying all vm's on all nodes have been successfully backed up to an external disk which will be taken offsite later that day. And I regularly restore VM's to a private VLAN for testing - no issues so far. Have migrated all our physical production

Re: [PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-27 Thread Pongrácz István
Or use zfs on the storage server :) eredeti üzenet- Feladó: Bart Lageweg | Bizway b...@bizway.nl Címzett: 'Lindsay Mathieson' , pve-user pve. proxmox. com Dátum: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:55:57 + - You can

Re: [PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
To clarify, I'm perfectly happy wit the backup times, just wondering why one VM takes so much more time then other similar VM's. More info, its actually a clone of another VM. The original only takes 37min, compared to 240 min for its clone. -- Lindsay

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2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
The KVM release notes (http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.7#Guest_agent) Mention that the windows guest agent now supports VSS. Any idea where I could download the agent from? NB: I am not a redhat customer. -- Lindsay ___ pve-user mailing list

Re: [PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-27 Thread Dietmar Maurer
More info, its actually a clone of another VM. The original only takes 37min, compared to 240 min for its clone. Do you run something (writing data) inside the VM during backup? ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com