Shadow protection SPF files, migrate to VM

[potetpro]

Hello.

We have a psyhical machine running windows server 2012. This server runs Shadowcopy backup.

Is it possible to migrate/import a full image shadow copy image, directly into Proxmox?

Thanks.

 

[Stefan_R]

AFAIU a shadow copy in Windows works similar to a (ZFS, Ceph, etc...) snapshot, so it's probably not possible, since it is incremental. If you're feeling lucky, it seems some people figured out a way to get raw images from them: https://windowsir.blogspot.com/2009/11/working-with-volume-shadow-copies.html - but I'd thoroughly test such approaches, this is definitely not an officially supported operation.

Check our Wiki on how to successfully migrate physical servers.