Boot after restore - excluded swap
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Hi!
I want to avoid unnecessary backup traffic. So, I am trying to exclude e.g. swap disks of my linux systems.
The problem is, that in case of a restore, swap-disk is just missing.How do you handle this? Is there any good "trick", I am not aware of?
As the "NOBAK"-disk is just missing, it's also hard to identify the problem (no warning)
Best wishes
KPS -
So you'd like to get the disk but not transferring it, right? That's not a trivial thing
For most of our prod, SWAP is inside the system disk anyway, so it's not a biggie.
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Other backup-solutions are able to exclude swap, which can reduce the volume - especially for tasks which are running in a short interval.
My idea was to exclude just the disks, which are used for swap.
The current possibility would be:
- Using a low swappiness on Linux to reduce change rate
- Excluding disks on Windows, as it does also boot with missing disks
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And how they do that?
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I just found the explanation for Windows:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/swap_files.html?ver=120
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XO doesn't have access to the VM content so it's not possible at the moment.
