Feature request : allow download full disk image in file restore

[guerbywork]

Hi,

One of our Proxmox VE user wants to download the disk image of one of the VM he manages with permissions PVEVMAdmin on the VM and PVEDatastoreUser on the backup datastore.

Unfortunately he cannot do it with those permissions AFAIK,

The closest tool is File restore where he can download individual partitions but the "download" button is unavailble for the full disk, so he would have to download all partitions and then remake a full disk image which is not so simple.

Is it possible to allow download of full disk image via file restore ?

Thanks!

 

[LnxBil]

The only option that comes to my mind is to create a vzdump manually and copy it to your disk (or mount a share from your machine to the pve host). The vma file contains everything there is including a full disk image.

 

[guerbywork]

The only option that comes to my mind is to create a vzdump manually and copy it to your disk (or mount a share from your machine to the pve host). The vma file contains everything there is including a full disk image.

Yes as I have full admin permissions this is what I did but it my request is to make this feature easily available to regular users of our proxmox VE who are not full admin.

If they really want to do it they can at the price of downloading each partition, remaking a partition structure and then "dd" the individual partitions in place. But it's not as easy as just downloading the full disk image right of file restore web UI