Backup and restore Proxmox configuration for hardware upgrade

orosmannaro

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Hi all.

I have a Proxmox 3.4 server with VM's in a NAS iSCSI/LVM storage and backups in a NAS NFS storage.

The server was installed on a single disk, so I would like to do this:
  • backup Proxmox configuration
  • replace the HD with two new SSD (RAID1)
  • install Proxmox (same version)
  • restore Proxmox configuration
Dan Ziemecki post seem to give the best help for this task.

I have a doub: which directories I need to restore from configuration backup?

TIA
 
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In your case normaly you must only backup /etc/pve. There all configs. But i think you should install newest version 4.4. Confgs are the same. Don't overwrite all. Only your own changed configs.
 
Thanks for your answer fireon.

I would write a general purpose script to do a backup of Proxmox configuration, so I want to include all the directories that could be be useful in case of local disk damage ...

Can you tell me what kind of problems may I have if I dont stop the Proxmox services before backup the configuration files?

Thank you again.
 
Can you tell me what kind of problems may I have if I dont stop the Proxmox services before backup the configuration files?
Since /etc/pve is a virtual filesystem stored in a SQLite database all you need to backup is:
/var/lib/pve-cluster/
- Do a SQLite database backup of config.db (https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html)
- Backup corosync.authkey
/var/lib/pve-firewall/
- What ever is in there
 
Is there any properly consolidated documentation entry on how to backup and restore a system? I will be doing something similar as the OP to replace the SSD currently installed for another one with bigger capacity and better server capabilities.
 
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Since /etc/pve is a virtual filesystem stored in a SQLite database all you need to backup is:
/var/lib/pve-cluster/
- Do a SQLite database backup of config.db (https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html)
- Backup corosync.authkey
/var/lib/pve-firewall/
- What ever is in there

I just want to be sure about backing sqlite database up, does anyone know the specific command?

I mean just backing config.db up and in case of failure installing the same proxmox with same ip and host, stopping pve-cluster service, copying backup config.db to the new server, setting 600 permission on it, replacing /var/lib/pve-firewall from backup server (in case of failure I mean) to new server and starting pve-cluster is enough?

Am I missing something here?
 
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