Specify backup order
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Hi All,
I was wondering if this is possible, or perhaps it could be a feature request. Is there any way to specify the order that VM's are backed up in? Or a way to tell XO "Do these VM's last"?
The reason why I am asking is that I have a incremental backup that runs every night of about 150 VM's. Most of them are small PBX servers and the total disk is roughly 32 GB and of that maybe 2G is backed up with each incremental run. There are a few VM's that are big and quite busy and they take a significant amount of time to backup (3 or 4 hours). To keep the impact on the system low, I use a concurrency of "1" and if these large VM's start backing up early in the evening, then it stalls the process until it is finished.
It would be more convenient for me if all the small backups can be done first and save the large ones for the every end. This would also give a chance for the coalesce to run, polishing off all the small VM's while the large ones backup.
Thanks in advance,
Peg -
Hi @Anonabhar
Can you open a support ticket so we can discuss more in depth on your rather large production infrastructure? That's a better place since we can actually discuss "private infrastructure" details and/or take a look with a support tunnel, helping us to find a right option for your use case
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Hi @olivierlambert ,
No problem.. I can do that.. I'll open one up tomorrow as I am just about to head out of the door to the DC to install equipment.
Kind Regards,
Peg -
@Anonabhar The NAUbackup script goes in order of a list of VMs, so I can imagine it'd be easy to implement this if not already present in XCP-ng. Worst case, separate those big VMs out into a separate backup instance and offset it adequately from when the other backups run.
