james.cookie
22-11-2011, 00:44
Originally Posted by Myatu
Thanks for the response
You don't want to use the root for this purpose. Proxmox already has a backup directory in /var/lib/vz actually, which it uses to collate live snapshots. You can use this for the same purpose, before sending the file(s) off to another destination. There are also ways of performing these "on-the-fly", but obviously depends on how you access the remote location.
root@ks481714:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 10G 2.7G 6.8G 29% / tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 648K 9.4M 7% /dev tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/pve-data 1.8T 7.8G 1.7T 1% /var/lib/vz