SCP Writing vmdk to local (pve)

[AllenJBlodgett]

I am attempting to copy a vmdk file to local-lvm which has over 1TB of free space. However, when doing so, it keeps writing to the local storage which is capped out at 100GB. Is there any way to make Proxmox skip the local storage space and make sure it writes to the local-lvm?

 

[leesteken]

scp copies from a file to a file but local-lvm is not a filesystem/directory storage (it's a block storage) and cannot store files.Maybe manually create a logical volume on local-lvm and format it with ext4 and mount that as a directory storage?

 

[bbgeek17]

You can try something similar to this :
https://unix.stackexchange.com/ques...ssh-on-local-machine-and-save-to-a-local-disk

However, I'd start with a smaller file first as an experiment. No guarantees that this will work, of course, since vmdk/qcow/lvm translations are a bit more complex than simple "dd".
Note, I did not put much effort into searching for you, there may be a ready solution out there.

PS specifically, you could "dd vmdk | gzip | ssh | qemu-img | lvm

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