[SOLVED] manual backup vm image (raw/qcow2) not from proxmox ve
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hi,
PVE also uses KVM, so if your VM disk works in KVM then it'll work in PVE too.
what do you mean exactly?
PVE also uses KVM, so if your VM disk works in KVM then it'll work in PVE too.
I have a copy of a virtual machine (vmname.qcow2 and vmname.xml) that previously ran on debian10 with KVM
I'd like to put it on PBS, but to have access to it from PVE (for example to be able to restore files)
One possibility is to import the virtual machine into PVE with some very high VID (ex. 99xx), make a backup to PBS, and then delete it from PVE.
But is it possible to do it differently?
I hope now I have explained well what I want to do
yes that'd be one way to do it
you could also backup the qcow file directly into PBS using the CLI proxmox-backup-client (then you don't need to create a VM, backup client can take arbitrary files) [0]
or alternatively mount the qcow2 in a directory then make a backup of all the files
[0]: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#creating-backups
It works
Unfortunately it doesn't work well when --backup-id is a name like "--backup-id testvm"
Backup is in PBS but invisible to PVE.
I have PBS 1.1 and PVE 6.4, maybe it works better in the new version
And i also wait for "protect backup" feature
Code:
proxmox-backup-client backup disk.img:./testvm.qcow2 qemu-server.conf:./testvm.xml --backup-type vm --backup-id 9994 --keyfile ./pbs.enc --verboseUnfortunately it doesn't work well when --backup-id is a name like "--backup-id testvm"
Backup is in PBS but invisible to PVE.
I have PBS 1.1 and PVE 6.4, maybe it works better in the new version
And i also wait for "protect backup" feature
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