Is it possible to mount a virtual disk from a VM backup?

[SOLTECSIS - Carles Munyoz]

Hi,
I'm using PBS for backup several virtual machines every day.
I'm even planing to do it every hour because after the first VMs backup, the next one takes a few minutes.

Is it possible to mount the virtual disks partitions of a VM backup?
How?

I know that the Proxmox staff is working for make it possible from the user interface, but until this feature is available I would like to know if it is possible to do it manually.

Thank you and best regards!

 

[Stefan_R]

This feature is currently under development (a patch is available on the mailing list). As it stands right now, it will probably be included in the near future.

Alternatively, a way to do this currently exists via qemu-nbd, as remarked here, but this is seen as rather experimental and potentially unstable.

 

[SOLTECSIS - Carles Munyoz]

Thank you for the response.
Any idea about when will this feature available?

 

[tom]

Any idea about when will this feature available?

As soon as the code is stable and all internal reviews are done.

 

[SOLTECSIS - Carles Munyoz]

Ok, great!
Thank you for your reply.

 

[fireon]

So i'am right when i say you talking about the opposite of this feature? Snippet attached.
This is only for LXC, right, so you talking about mounting/open KMV?

 

[Stefan_R]

So i'am right when i say you talking about the opposite of this feature? Snippet attached.
This is only for LXC, right, so you talking about mounting/open KMV?

Yes, single file restore for pxar archives (container and host backups) is already available via the recovery shell or a FUSE based mounting option. Mounting raw (KVM) images has to be a bit more hands-on, as we don't know which file system or partition layout is used in the image.

 

[fireon]

Ok, i understand. Thanks for the answer.