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    vma to vhdx convert

    Hi I'm using proxmox 8.1.3 I created a virtual windows machine and I want to take the backup file of it and convert it to this vhdx format how can I do?
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    Change storage name in vzdump

    I am getting the following 'failed: storage 'backup' does not exist' error when trying to restore a vzdump from another server to my proxmox instance. Moved it from proxmox 6 to 7. All i want to know is how can i change the storage name in the VMA file from 'backup' to 'local-lvm'? I tried...
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    How to convert VMA to a QEmu loadable format?

    So I just backed up my Proxmox VM's and got rid of proxmox since I want to use this machine for QEmu instead. The problem is QEmu don't support VMA so how can I convert VMA to QEmu without Promox?
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    [SOLVED] "vma create" segfaulting in libglib-2.0.so.0.6600.8 - multi-threading bug?

    Hi! I have a PBS system (latest v2.1-1 with kernel 5.13.19-4-pve) running with ZFS raidz2 on a ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz, 1 socket with 8 cores + 2 threads per core AKA 16 CPUs). The system also has pve-qemu-kvm v6.1.1-1 installed (from...
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    How to restore from an 'extracted' vma backup

    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...
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    Decompress/Extract VMA files offline

    Hey everyone. I have some .vma.lzo server images that I need to extract for forensics analysis. I use lzop to get to just the .vma file, but I'm finding it difficult to decompress further. My analysis machines is disconnected from the internet so I need to find a way to get the vma extract tool...
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    pipe vma extract

    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.
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    the Backup

    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...
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    Can I delete a dir from inside a .vma file?

    I have a VM backup that I want to restore, a .vma.lzo file. This file is huge because of an out-of-control process. Can I delete a dir from inside a .vma file and then restore the VM? Restoring the entire VM with all the unneeded data inside would take up way too much time.
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    Restore backup 50Tb

    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...
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    vma chechsum error

    Hey I have this crazy checksum error (with several backups) vma extract 1.vma -v 1222 DEVINFO 1222/tmp-disk-drive-sata0.raw 128849018880 Formatting '1222/tmp-disk-drive-sata0.raw', fmt=raw size=128849018880 ** (process:2895): ERROR **: restore failed - wrong vma extent header chechsum...
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    Restore to multiple storage

    Hey there, I've setup proxmox with 3 different storages: local-lvm, ssd based nfs-storage, which is a remote nfs server nfs-backup, which is also a remote nfs server I want to create a VM with one disk on local-lvm and one disk on nfs-storage. I can backup a machine like this just fine, but...

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