just to #brag

Deploy of worker is okay (one big rocky linux with default settings 6vcpu, 6Gb RAM, 100Gb vdi)

first backup is fine, with decent speed ! (to a xcp hosted S3 minio)

will keep testing

Hey all,

We are proud of our new setup, full XCPng hosting solution we racked in a datacenter today.
This is the production node, tomorrow i'll post the replica node !

XCPng 8.3, HPE hardware obviously, and we are preparing full automation of clients by API (from switch vlans to firewall public IP, and automatic VM deployment).

This needs a sticker "Vates Inside" #vent

@sluflyer06 and I wish HPE would be added too

I did stick to version: 1 in my working configuration

Had to rename my "Ethernet 2" nic name to Ethernet2 without the space

You have to put the exact template nic name for this to work.

Hi,

Smart backups are wonderful to manage smart selection of VMs to be backuped.

When we browse the RESTORE section, would be cool to get the TAGs back visually, and possibility to filter them
I'd like to get "all VMs restorable with this particular TAG" type of filter, hope i'm clear.

Perhaps something to add to XO6 ?

Could we have a way to know wich backup is part of LTR ?
In veeam B&R, when doing LTR/GFS, there is a letter like W(weekly) M(monthly) Y(yearly)to signal the fact in the UI

That's pure cosmectics indeed, but practical.

@Forza I didn't try, as my default Graylog Input was UDP and worked with the hosts...

But guys, that was it. In TCP mode, it's working. Rapidly set up a TCP input, and voila.

@MK.ultra don't think so

it's working without for me.

@tmk hi !
Many thanks, your modified python file did the trick, my static IP address is now working as intented.

I can confirm this is working on Windows 2025 Server as well.

@Bastien-Nollet where is this "offline backups" check option ?

I'm aware of snapshot mode/offline, but not offline backups ?

EDIT : my bad, I found it, it's only available for FULL BACKUPS, not DELTA BACKUPS

@k11maris said in delta backups with offline snapshot: VMs do not start after snapshot, they start after transfer is done.:

I think there is a way with changed block tracking to use delta backups without snapshots, right? I'll have to look into that.

ypu need to check those

and yes a VM that is BACKUPed and REPLICAted have 2 snaps.
didn't see a snapshot for Disaster Recovery job though (seems to be snaped, but deleted afterward as there is no need to delta on the next snap), you could use these, but full only and one temporary snapshot during the DR export.

@k11maris yeah but with new jobs, you enter a new Backup Chain ?

would be nice to keep those existing (imagine if you have LTR to re-backup)

I don't know a veeam way to "map backup" to get the chain continuity in XO Backup.

@bvitnik said in Booting to Dracut (I trusted ChatGPT):

P.S. I guess metadata backup is also XML just like XAPI state file (database). I don't know why JSON came to my mind regarding metadata backup.

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perhaps because of other thread discussing metadatabackup.list in audit log

there is actually a bug there where the metadata is not only checked to be audited, but also completly dumped in JSON format.

@AtaxyaNetwork yeah but if he doesn't have metadata backups, he will have SRs full of disconnected VDIs ? and the need to recreate each VM ?

@nuentes I explored my pool metadata backups, and I see a "part.1" file, that is a big XML of all the configuration of the pool

so yeah I don't think there is something else in here like your OS parameters, only pool config.

I could be wrong, but it's all I can see in here

@acebmxer xoconfig goes to vates but not pool metadata
doesn't cost anything to put a job on it I guess

so we wait for Vates team to tell us why this vebose audit log on metadata

or perhaps it IS the metadata that would explain the fuss

@acebmxer you need to go in backup/restore/metadata

it will try to list your metadata backups by an api call

then go back to audit you will see the audit log

mine is gigantic.

@acebmxer do you have AUDIT LOGS activated ?

if so, could you check on your XOA if you have the same from-earth-to-moon audit log on metadata backup list ?

why do I have quite a full log of all my infrastructure information in this log ?
this one is a bug I guess

perhaps is it linked to the infinite refresh I had ?

EDIT : saved the log on the desktop in notepad ... 1.528 Mo !

@acebmxer yeah I know... sometimes I have to REFRESH BACKUP LIST for normal backups of VMs, but this button doesn't even exists for metadata

i'll let tomorrow sequence execute, and report back if the metadata restore points are unaivailable again.