Backup virtual machines to external hard

[Maher Khalil]

Hello
I need to reformat my server compltely due to security reasons.I want to take backup of VMs to external hard then restorer them after reinstall proxmox. how can I achieve that

 

[Dunuin]

You always should keep backups of your VMs/LXCs...

Easiest way would be to format your external disk as ext4, mount it, add that mountpoint as a storage to PVE with storage type "Directory" and content type "vzdump". Then you can use the buildin backup feature of PVE with your external HDD as the backup target.