XO Backup [NOBAK] for full backups
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Not sure to understand. The potential XAPI side improvement is to allow a
VM.snapshotcommand to add extra parameters, excluding some disks.You don't need to halt a VM to make a snapshot, it's completely unrelated. Maybe I'm missing something?
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Hi @bnerickson ,
The xcp-ng part to Exclude VDI from snapshot has been done on XAPI project and can be seen in github https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/issues/4551 , but will be only embedded in xcp-ng 8.3 planned around 6 month (+/- 3).
For the XO part, [Backup] Use ignore_vdis param when snapshotting, I will see with the XO Team and Olivier to synchronize the delivery
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@marcungeschikts Thanks, that's perfect!
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@julien-f @marcungeschikts @olivierlambert
Commenting as I feel my recent error (https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/53557) is somehow related to this thread reading through the comments and history.
cc. @Tristis-Oris
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Does the [NOBAK] need to be in the "Name" or "Description" section? This is not really mentioned anywhere.
Thanks
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It is in the official doc: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/backups.html#exclude-disks
just edit the VM disk name
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Found this by googling. Is there any news on being able to exclude disks at the snapshot level?
I have a couple of big SQL server VMs that are too big to snapshot, but the OS disk is relatively small and the attached disks are backed up by a seperate process anyway. So literally just need the OS image backing up.
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See https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/11/18/xcp-ng-8-3-alpha/#
-vm-snapshot-with-disk-exclusionIt's already used/supported by Xen Orchestra. If you want it for production, you'll need to wait for XCP-ng 8.3 to be available
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@olivierlambert
Hi.
on VM i have 2 disks each 2Tb.
i created a continuous replication task with 96h timeout. It did take around 48 hours for full transfer but still ended with "task has been destroyed before completion".
can i mark 1 disk with [NOBAK] start a CR task so it copies only 1 disk. When this is finished i mark another disk with [NOBAK] and unmark the 1st one, so it makes a CR for second time and copies another disk. and when this is finished, i remove [NOBAK] completely so that both disks can be transfered delta? -
Hmm I'm not sure about this but worth asking @florent
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@dave.opc it should work . Add [NoBak] to one disk, transfer it, then remove the [NoBak] on the 2nd , restart the transfer => the first one will only transfer a delta , while the second disk will be transfered as full . If you put [NBak] on the first one for the second transfer, it will be handled as a disk deleted and will remove it on the replica
Note you will have the same issue if ( when ) you'll need to do a full backup later on, for example if there are any replication issue, or if you want to ensure your base copy is not corrupted later on
