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Bad surprise, my password app does not mention console password anymore...
I suppose we can't retrieve it or override from the proxmox gui.
I also suppose i have to reinstall proxmox :)

How can i backup the proxmox settings and actual vm to restore them later on ?
 
Kynao said:
Bad surprise, my password app does not mention console password anymore...
I suppose we can't retrieve it or override from the proxmox gui.
I also suppose i have to reinstall proxmox :)

How can i backup the proxmox settings and actual vm to restore them later on ?
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Hi,
if you save your config and data (therefor you must mount the proxmox-partitions) you can also set a new password - this is normal linux doing (has nothing to do with proxmox).
If you lost with this - hire an linux supporter.

Udo
 
Hi,
It sounds like it's impossible to achieve which i completely don't understand. For example, why not backup the vm to an iscsi target or an nfs share ?
Then why it would be impossible from proxmox gui to backup its own settings ? Except that the feature may be not implemented, it would be mysterious to me why the feature can't be implemented as a software saving its own settings is a common feature not requiring something special from the hosting os.
Then how to restore the backuped data ? i don't see any proxmox menu to do that
 
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Kynao said:
Hi,
It sounds like it's impossible to achieve which i completely don't understand. For example, why not backup the vm to an iscsi target or an nfs share ?
Then why it would be impossible from proxmox gui to backup its own settings ? Except that the feature may be not implemented, it would be mysterious to me why the feature can't be implemented as a software saving its own settings is a common feature not requiring something special from the hosting os.
Then how to restore the backuped data ? i don't see any proxmox menu to do that
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Hi,
how do you want to do backups with the gui, if you loss the password?? Normaly you can't login!
If you can reach the gui, you know the root-password (except somebody do a hack at the pve-system)!
And to save the config with the console is very basic linux doing. Otherwise you can easily configure a fresh system...

Edit: restore is allways handwork. See "man qmrestore"

Udo
 
I don't understand :) I can login to proxmox gui as i have the password. I can't login on linux, that what i call the console
Oh, you seem to tell that the proxmox password and linux password are the same, that's right ? I was hoping that but when i use root / proxmox password, login is incorrect.
Ah restore function is under work for the next release :), i better understand now why i didn't see the capabilty in 1.7 :)
 
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Ok you're right about the password, they are the same, i used the numeric pad for the password which were a bad idea apparently, problem resolved, thanks.
So no way to see restore capabilities in the gui one day ?
 
Kynao said:
Ok you're right about the password, they are the same, i used the numeric pad for the password which were a bad idea apparently, problem resolved, thanks.
So no way to see restore capabilities in the gui one day ?
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Hi,
fine that you able to login!
About restore and gui: i'm not sure if this is planned in a future version because i don't have a focus of that (i have no problem with the console).
At the roadmap http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap i can't see anything for this topic.

Udo
 
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