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    Backing up boot device with dd

    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...
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    Storagecraft ShadowProtect Backup and Instant Recovery

    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...