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Mastering Proxmox

You're reading from Mastering Proxmox Build virtualized environments using the Proxmox VE hypervisor

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788397605

Length 494 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Ceph

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Ahmed

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Understanding Proxmox VE and Advanced Installation FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating a Cluster and Exploring the Proxmox GUI

3. Proxmox under the Hood

4. Storage Systems

5. Installing and Configuring Ceph

6. KVM Virtual Machines

7. LXC Virtual Machines

8. Network of Virtual Networks

9. The Proxmox VE Firewall

10. Proxmox High Availability

11. Monitoring the Proxmox Cluster

12. Proxmox Production-Level Setup

13. Back Up and Restore Virtual Machines

14. Updating/Upgrading Proxmox

15. Proxmox Troubleshooting

16. Rescuing Proxmox

Configuring full backup

All full backups are in the .tar format, containing both the configuration file and virtual disk image file. The backup files are all you need to restore a virtual machine on any nodes and on any storage. Full backup files are named based on the following formats for both KVM and LXC virtual machines:

vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar 
vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar.lzo 
vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar.gz 
 
vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma 
vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma.lzo 
vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma.fz

The following screenshot shows a list of backup files in a backup storage node, as seen from the Proxmox GUI:

The backup list is sortable by the Format, Type, or Size of backup files. From the same page, we can also delete or restore backup files.

Creating a schedule for backup

In Proxmox, we can schedule automated backup tasks or commit manual backups for each...

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Authors (1)

Ahmed

Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.

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