Mirror Incremental or Mirror Full backup Tags???
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Not sure this as been mention before You create a tag called "Backup" and in your backup job you can have it backup every vm with that tag. Why is this not an option for Mirror jobs? I have some VMs i want to mirror to another Remote while others not so much.
Having tags would make this a lot easier to manage. So you dont have to re-edit the mirror job to add or remove a vm to be mirrored.
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Just select "smart mode" on top right, to use it from tags.
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Where in Mirror backup jobs is that?
I can only mirror all vms or select from a list. Which means i have to edit this job every time i need to add a new vm or remove an old vm.
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Ahhh OK I get it. Mirror is a different breed. You will mirror everything, with a different retention or schedule. But AFAIK, it's not meant to pick only some VMs.
Asking @florent for confirmation (it's been a while I did not tinkered with it)
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@acebmxer indeed, same problem here, no smart mode in MIRROR backups.
it's either MANUAL selection, or ALL vms.
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IIRC, it was a complexity issue on the "why"
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@olivierlambert because of time constraints and some decision to take on which tag do we use if the VM had changed. We pushed back these deceision until mirror were more widely used .
( easiest way would be to use always the last tags. )
To be fair, If possible I would prefer to wait for XO6 , the backup form in XO5, is quite complex to modify
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That would make more sense indeed to get that done on XO 6
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I think it can wait until XO6.
I dont have sperate test servers at the office so if I need to spin up a test machine i may want to back it up for testing but not to cloud backup as its only test. Tagging would make this easy since you have tagging implanted.
As a work around i could create separate backup jobs for those less important vms.
