Export vm's to reinstall proxmox on same hardware

[DHY]

I have a proxmox PVE running and want to back it up and install it on the same hardware but with a clean proxmox installation. I am planning on whipping everything of the current hardware. But I don’t want to lose my VM’s. The backup option on my VM’s doesn’t work because it can’t find the disks. But I should have a backup of them somewhere. I have been searching the internet for answers but couldn’t find them and didn’t understand the commands they were doing. I can access my PVE with SSH and GUI.
current version: Virtual Environment 6.4-13
planned version: 7.0-1

 

[maxprox]

Hi DHY,
have a look at this thread:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/simple-backup-method-to-usb-drive.21294/

for example:

1:
First you have to mount some usb disk
2:
backup your VM(s), for example:

vzdump 8206 --mode stop --compress lzo --dumpdir /var/lib/usbmount/sicherung/8200_zammad

(the number 8200 on the second position is the VMID, the dumpdir is for this example the usb mount point)
3:
after the new install; restore for example :

qmrestore -storage r5pool-zfs /var/lib/usbmount/sicherung/8200_zammad/vzdump-qemu-8200-xxx.vma.lzo 8888

(the path for the restore vma.lzo file is for this example the usb mount point in the new install ... )

The Documentations:
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/vzdump.1.html
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/
"qmrestore":
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-vzdump.html#vzdump_restore


regards, maxprox

 

[DHY]

Hi DHY,
have a look at this thread:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/simple-backup-method-to-usb-drive.21294/

for example:

1:
First you have to mount some usb disk
2:
backup your VM(s), for example:

vzdump 8206 --mode stop --compress lzo --dumpdir /var/lib/usbmount/sicherung/8200_zammad

(the number 8200 on the second position is the VMID, the dumpdir is for this example the usb mount point)
3:
after the new install; restore for example :

qmrestore -storage r5pool-zfs /var/lib/usbmount/sicherung/8200_zammad/vzdump-qemu-8200-xxx.vma.lzo 8888

(the path for the restore vma.lzo file is for this example the usb mount point in the new install ... )

The Documentations:
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/vzdump.1.html
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/
"qmrestore":
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-vzdump.html#vzdump_restore


regards, maxprox

Thank you it works