#!/bin/bash # This modifyr´s the datacenter.cfg # set the upper limit to upper=70000000 # mkdir -p /root/backup cp /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg /root/backup/ /usr/bin/sed -ri "s/lower=[12][0-9]{3}[01][0-9][0-3][0-9]/lower=$(date '+%y%m%d'01)/g" /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg # thas adds the date + 01 # example 25010201 is the next id for the ct or vm # set this in the crontab # 01 00 * * * /root/next-id.sh