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    Live migration between local storage without a cluster

    @fabian @tom @mira Any update on that one guy very interesting feature for us.
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    The featurr is now out and work grest from gui in 6.4 thanks all !!!!
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    ho and i use ip address as server information no FQND if this can help you
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    I can confirm this stil working greate (PVE 6.3-3, PBS 1.0-6) but you need to edit the script because "proxmox-backup-client snapshot" need to be "proxmox-backup-client snapshot list " now it a small change on proxmox-backup client cli. still some thing have you "modprobe nbd" module ? try to...
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    Hive not find doc to as i was testing this feature because i thin this implementation is only on proxmox module, so you need to have proxmox kernel / backup server module. I gona retry the script tonight or tomoro morning from my side and keep you aware if is still workibg on my side if yes i...
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    Have not used it from last december maby some api call have change (i know there a lot of change api client xall), you can try to execute one by one commande line and they probably one not working (the commande send by ssh) Look for something with proxmox-backup-client as commande and you need...
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    @JamesT Hi JamesT This is the working python script. First my environement, PBS is install on PVE server who is dedicated to backup, I mount my backup on it self but shoul work on any host who have pve install and can reach backup serveur 1:Script use SSH to push commande to local or distant...
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    Yes but you need to take in consideration this is wipe script and it need some love to shine, i gona remove sensible information and attach my draf there. Its a python script are you good with this language ? Did you need some comment cause now it did not have any comment on it
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    Importing PV of a mapped (readonly) Backup Disk Image on its original VM

    The proxmox-backup-client map as read only this methode expose the drivr as read write disk from backup
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    After many test ive finaly write a small script around the proxmox-backup-client and qemu-nbd who start a vm from backup. But regarding performance other than add a cache and special device do someone have advice to boost read iops over backup (zfs datastore) For the record Ive passe from...
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    Importing PV of a mapped (readonly) Backup Disk Image on its original VM

    You can use the commande qemu-nbd refered on this thread "https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/instant-mount-start-of-vm-from-pbs-backup.77627/" to map drive visible as read write on your vm it important to use the -s option
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    Migration from ESXi 6.7 to Proxmox

    The lz4 compression is a my knolegwment activate by defaut and i have never need to disable it
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    Migration from ESXi 6.7 to Proxmox

    Personaly i go zfs way they have to many good thing (L2ARC, snapshot CoW daly auto rotating,replication,...)
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    Migration from ESXi 6.7 to Proxmox

    Note to that (using directly the vmdk) depending on source storage iops your vm gona take a big performance hit before and more during migration
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    Migration from ESXi 6.7 to Proxmox

    For the migration part you can use sshfs to map the the esxi datastore on the proxmox server then you can directly use the impor command provide by kevin (you save a copy step) Or if the vm is big enough you can map a nfs on the esxi from proxmox 1:Then take a snapshot of vmware vm 2:copy base...
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    Thank stefan, i gona test this map/unmap commande then. the post is solved for me i let it open for sometime if someone need to add something Cordialement,
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    Just quick dirt note if some on need complet procedure to mount drive from backup (It just some information ive found every where) export PBS_REPOSITORY='username@pbs@x.x.x.x:datastoreName' export PBS_PASSWORD='PasswordUsername' export PBS_FINGERPRINT='Figerprint' qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0...
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    Instant mount / start of vm from pbs backup

    I can with sucess mount the backup from pbs with the qemu-nbd -s commande (ive found that on a other tread on this forum) then i can map de device with Ln -s /dev/nbd0 rpool/data/vm-100-disk-1 After that i can restor the config file and edit the config to point to new drive I have booted a...

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