Scheduling backups

In this section, we are going to see how to configure or schedule a full backup of a VM.

Getting ready

In Proxmox VE, full backup can be scheduled to commit automatically, or you can perform manual backups of VMs. All backup tasks can be performed through the Proxmox GUI. The backup is accessible through Datacenter or a VM tabbed menu. The datacenter Backup menu allows the scheduling of backup tasks for all VMs cluster-wide. The VM Backup menu allows performing a backup for an individual VM. The VM Backup menu does not allow any backup scheduling. It must be performed through the datacenter Backup menu.

When scheduling automated backups, care needs to be taken over how many backup jobs are going to performed simultaneously. For example, if there are six Proxmox nodes with VMs, and a schedule has been created to back up six VMs at the same time onto the same backup nodes, failure may occur if the backup node does not have sufficient processing power. In large environments...