How to copy a vm in proxmox to HDD External

Hi,
as backup?! mount the external hdd - define as pve-storage (directory) with type backup, backup vm, undefine Storage, unmount hdd.

As disk for an physical server? Use qemu-img to convert and write to the disk-device.

Udo
 

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