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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition
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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

by Wasim Ahmed
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Backup configuration file

The backup configuration file in Proxmox allows more advanced options to be used. For example, if we want to limit the backup speed so that the backup task does not consume all of the available network bandwidth, we can limit it with the bwlimit option. As of Proxmox VE 5.0, the configuration file cannot be edited from the GUI. It has to be done from the CLI, using an editor. The backup configuration file can be found in /etc/vzdump.conf. The following is the default vzdump.conf file on a new Proxmox cluster:

# tmpdir: DIR 
# dumpdir: DIR 
# storage: STORAGE_ID 
# mode: snapshot|suspend|stop 
# bwlimit: KBPS 
# ionice: PRI 
# lockwait: MINUTES 
# stopwait: MINUTES 
# size: MB # stdexcludes: BOOLEAN# mailto: ADDRESSLIST # ...
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