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Proxmox Cookbook

By : Wasim Ahmed, Ravi K Jangid
Book Image

Proxmox Cookbook

By: Wasim Ahmed, Ravi K Jangid

Overview of this book

Proxmox VE's intuitive interface, high availability, and unique central management system puts it on par with the world’s best virtualization platforms. Its simplicity and high quality of service is what makes it the foremost choice for most system administrators. Starting with a step-by-step installation of Proxmox nodes along with an illustrated tour of Proxmox graphical user interface where you will spend most of your time managing a cluster, this book will get you up and running with the mechanisms of Proxmox VE. Various entities such as Cluster, Storage, and Firewall are also covered in an easy to understand format. You will then explore various backup solutions and restore mechanisms, thus learning to keep your applications and servers safe. Next, you will see how to upgrade a Proxmox node with a new release and apply update patches through GUI or CLI. Monitoring resources and virtual machines is required on an enterprise level, to maintain performance and uptime; to achieve this, we learn how to monitor host machine resources and troubleshoot common issues in the setup. Finally, we will walk through some advanced configurations for VM followed by a list of commands used for Proxmox and Ceph cluster through CLI. With this focused and detailed guide you will learn to work your way around with Proxmox VE quickly and add to your skillset.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Proxmox Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing a manual backup


In this section, we are going to see how to commit manual backup for VMs.

Getting ready

A manual backup can be performed on a particular VM at any point in time. Similar to a backup that is scheduled, a manual backup can also be performed fully through the Proxmox GUI.

How to do it…

The following steps show how to commit manual backups for a VM:

  1. Log in to the Proxmox GUI.

  2. Select a VM from the left navigation bar for which a manual backup needs to be performed, and then click on the Backup tabbed menu.

  3. Click on Backup now to open the backup dialog box.

  4. Select the backup storage from the Storage drop-down menu.

  5. Select the backup mode.

  6. Select the backup compression type.

  7. Click on Backup to start the backup task.

The following screenshot shows the backup dialog box with the appropriate options selected:

This screenshot shows the list of backup files after the manual backup is completed: