[PVE-User] Backup retention policy

[Fabrizio Cuseo]

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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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