vma extract

After backing up a VM what I do is to 'extract' the VMA file to a directory that is then backed up by restic. (This makes deduplication possible with restic). The original VMA is deleted at the end. All this is done automatically with scripts. What I get in the directory is something like this...

I'm working on something and was wondering if vma extract output can be piped. Right now I'm looking at piping to rsync (that could change later). Thanks.

Hi y'all , I'm pretty new with the proxmox V machine thing and need to get certain files from the back up I did on an external Drive I have the External Drive right now connected to my Linux client machine (I have windows as well). is there a way to extract files from this backup I have ? Ps...

Hello, I wanted to get a raw disk image for an internship working on a server migration (with virt-manager on his computer). I got the PVE backup and seen that documentation is not up to date around for extracting these backups. Thus I post an update here. Maybe somebody would like to test it...

Hello gentlemen, we have such a problem. Proxmox VE 5-4-5 It turned out that when the size of the hard disk was changed by one of the VMs, they made a mistake or a glitch happened and it turned out they made 50TB for the 50GB place. Proxmox successfully made a backup of this virtual machine, but...

We want to extract the qcow2 images from a vma.lzo dump. Therefor we have to create an empty xxx.fifo file to pipe the lzop -d -c data. The bash command looks like: lzop -d -c vzdump-qemu-101-2016_03_08-02_10_02.vma.lzo|vma extract -v -r xxx.fifo - /var/lib/vz/test5 The output: CFG: size: 467...