[PVE-User] PBS Incremental and stopped VM's

[PVE-User] PBS Incremental and stopped VM's

[Lindsay Mathieson]

I'm guessing only running VM's (with dirty bitmap support) can be 
incrementally backed up?


Might be nice if we could schedule backups for only running VM's

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Lindsay

Re: [PVE-User] PBS Incremental and stopped VM's

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 10/04/2021 11:43 pm, Arjen via pve-user wrote:
> Just to be clear: PBS always makes a full backup. The resulting data is deduplicated (before sending it to the server), which almost always reduces the writes to the server.

Ah, I see now, thanks, I didn't understand that part of things. Looking 
at the logs of my 2nd backup, I see that stopped VM's had zero bytes 
written to the backup server.

-- 
Lindsay