Proxmox partition structure

[tonycav]

Hi, this is the Proxmox primary disk structure. I would like to save the partitions containing the starting files with the dd command.
Should I save sda1 and sda2?
Later if I changed ssd, could I restart proxmox? Many thanks

 

[aaron]

Save the whole disk, not just a single partition. This is the easiest way without worrying if you got everything.

 

[tonycav]

Is it better to use clonezilla?

 

[Dunuin]

Both will work. But clonezilla might be more beginner-friendly because of the UI.

 

[tonycav]

Thank you very much!

 

[Dunuin]

You also shouldn't backup your system disk while it is mounted (so when PVE is running) becauwe of data integrity. Then you would need to use a Live Linux ISO anyway to do the dd, so you could also jsut boot a clonezilla ISO instead.