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How much memory does your proxmox host have, What happens if you reduce the win 11 machne memory doen to 4 Gig Does the host freeze when the windows 11 machine is not running. I would turn off the win 11 machine, Install a linux vm with 4 gig of ram, run that and see how it goes. If it runs...

So I found that shutting down pve and using dd to copy the boot device will make a backup. After the dd image was created, I used gparted to wipe the partitions of the original boot drive, then dd'd the image back to the original boot drive. Rebooted and everything came back up hunky dorey...

Here's what I do ---> 1 - create a network smb share large enough to hold all your vm machine. 2 -In PVE go to storage and add the share as a vzdump space 3 - Backup each machine to the newly with the PVE backup option for each machine 4 - stand up a new proxmox on a better disk 5 - on the new...

Storagecraft shadowprotect…. Installs app in the windows machine, creates full or incremental backups, allows you to restore individual files easily, can run a virtualized instance of your backed up machine in virtual box, windows 10 hyperv, etc. very flexible.. have used it for years in VMware...

if the nodes (guest machines) are type windows, and they are using bridged networking, then regular copy to and from windows shares should work. If they are not window, but using bridged networking, then ssh via winscp or something like that should work.

For years we have used Storagecraft Shadowprotect to manage then backup of our Server216 Essentials vm that lives inside an Esxi hypervisor. The backup tool allows us almost instant recovery of the vm through a process they call virtual boot. - So when a drive went bad recently, we fired up our...