Removable pbs datastores and jobs

Removable pbs datastores and jobs

[Fabrizio Cuseo]

Hello.
I am testing a "cheap tape-like" pbs system, using a lot of unused hard drives and USB dockers.

I have created 4 different drives, and each one has one or more sync jobs to copy on mount and unmount as ended. 
But, how can I run prune and garbage collect jobs ? 
If I mount the drive, it executes sync jobs and unmount it, so I don't have time to run other jobs manually; to do it, I need to modify every sync job to disable "run on mount" flag. So, it will be very useful a "mount with no jobs" button, for maintainance tasks or simply to look at the content.
It also be useful some options like "run after sync tasks" for each "verify/prune/garbage collect" task.

Thanks, Fabrizio 

Re: Removable pbs datastores and jobs

[Christian Ebner]

Hi,

On 4/1/26 11:53 AM, Fabrizio Cuseo wrote:
> I have created 4 different drives, and each one has one or more sync jobs to copy on mount and unmount as ended.
> But, how can I run prune and garbage collect jobs ?

This is currently not possible in a fully automated manner unless 
scripted via the API, as recently also discussed in this forum thread [1].

> If I mount the drive, it executes sync jobs and unmount it, so I don't have time to run other jobs manually; to do it, I need to modify every sync job to disable "run on mount" flag. So, it will be very useful a "mount with no jobs" button, for maintainance tasks or simply to look at the content.
> It also be useful some options like "run after sync tasks" for each "verify/prune/garbage collect" task.

Please add this additional information and suggestions to the issue [2]. 
Thanks!

Regards,
Chris

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/182224/
[2] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7465