Debian server back up/migrate to Proxmox

[MrBooombastick]

Hello all,

I would like to know how, or even if it is possible, to back up my server I have at home or migrate it to Proxmox which is on my another, more powerful server. Thank you.

 

[oguz]

hi,

yes you can do that take a look here [0]

basically you need to copy the disk and create a VM and import the disk into it.

[0]: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

 

[MrBooombastick]

Thank you. As usual, I run into issues. I would like to clone only the data on the drive in the server, not whole disk. Not sure how to do that. Also, now I am at point where CLonezilla is asking me to run Clonezilla Live as well on my destination machine - my server - so I created it in Proxmox and started CLonezilla as well but still I got into problems and had to do commands instead and now I am not sure the name of my TARGET_DEV, so I chose SDA as I thought in the VM in Proxmox I just created but it says all will be deleted/overwritten with the server data. I do not want to happen to drive I am not suppose to do anything to.
My server live clonezilla says Waiting for the target machine to connect... but my Proxmox VM Clonezilla is different... meaning it says error... see pics.
I tried to copy full disk but it was the same error so I chose partition this time and it is the same. Not sure why. IP to server was correct on local network in my office.