Backups

Warning

Verify if backup button stops/locks the system during backup

How to Backup/Restore

Backups and restores are done via snapshots on the VM selection.

This is also where templates can be made

filtering by vmid

hard copy location

root@pve128:/var/lib/vz# pwd
/var/lib/vz

root@pve128:/var/lib/vz# ls -alF
total 28
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Feb  5 16:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 37 root root 4096 Feb  5 15:44 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  7 08:06 dump/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 21 08:58 images/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  5 16:41 private/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  5 16:41 snippets/
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Feb  5 15:43 template/

root@pve128:/var/lib/vz# ls dump -alF
total 35773620
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root        4096 Feb  7 08:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root        4096 Feb  5 16:41 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        3416 Feb  6 00:23 vzdump-qemu-742-2023_02_06-00_21_53.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16795251880 Feb  6 00:23 vzdump-qemu-742-2023_02_06-00_21_53.vma.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root          10 Feb  6 00:23 vzdump-qemu-742-2023_02_06-00_21_53.vma.zst.notes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        3511 Feb  6 10:26 vzdump-qemu-742-2023_02_06-10_24_40.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19836891631 Feb  6 10:26 vzdump-qemu-742-2023_02_06-10_24_40.vma.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root          33 Feb  6 10:26 vzdump-qemu-742-2023_02_06-10_24_40.vma.zst.notes

Modify Storage Tanks

The “local” is part of the NVME on the proxmox server, I don’t want to use it.

Instead I will add the NFS location I created, which is a link to my NAS Drive, a RAID Array with 3TB free