How to read in snapshot zst backup file?

[Mucip]

Hi,
I backup (snapshot) all my virtual machines in the other device.
May I explore this "vzdump-qemu-101-2020_07_18-23_08_47.vma.zst" file and copy a file from inside of it?

Regards,
Mucip

 

[fabian]

you can decompress (via standard zstd tools) and then extract (with vma extract) the contained disk images, but directly extracting a file is not possible.

 

[wintok]

I have the same problem too. I backup my vms and somehow the zst was there. On another proxmox server I load and connect CIFS storage share where my vms backup are and I could not see my vm backups. As you mentioned this needs to be decompress , then we can load disk images on the new server ? Can you provide the guide on how to decompress the zst files ?

 

[fabian]

the backups don't need to be (manually) decompressed unless you want to manually explore them like OP.

On another proxmox server I load and connect CIFS storage share where my vms backup are and I could not see my vm backups.

I assume something went wrong there, but without more details it will be hard to help you

 

[fiona]

Because the other host is too old: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/backup-image-converted-from-vma-zst-to-vmdk.89506/#post-534856

Please don't spam many older threads with your issue next time. Just create a new thread.