[PVE-User] Backup retention policy. Was: splitting vzdump files

2015-02-21 Thread Fabrizio Cuseo
I will prefer, integrated with proxmox backup automation, a retention policy for backups; now you can only leave n last backups. It will be better to leave n backups (only for last week), x weekly backpus, y monthly backups, z biannual backups. Also a VM-Number-Name based filename (ex:

Re: [PVE-User] Backup retention policy

2013-05-22 Thread Steve Audia
If it's just the rotation part you need, you could handle that on the backup server side with a short script, copying the dailies into weekly folders, weeklies into monthly folders, etc. I know, rolling a custom script is something some want to avoid, but this particular script would be very

Re: [PVE-User] Backup retention policy

2013-05-22 Thread Fabrizio Cuseo
. Regards, Fabrizio - Messaggio originale - Da: Steve Audia sau...@andrew.cmu.edu A: ad...@extremeshok.com Cc: Fabrizio Cuseo f.cu...@panservice.it, pve-user pve-user@pve.proxmox.com Inviato: Mercoledì, 22 maggio 2013 11:15:38 Oggetto: Re: [PVE-User] Backup retention policy If it's just

Re: [PVE-User] Backup retention policy

2013-05-17 Thread admin extremeshok.com
Yes and delta backups. Ie.. full backup every week, then a delta backup every day. Thanks On 2013-05-16 01:58 PM, 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 -