Tool for Vm's Backup and Restoration

[olifa07]

Hello,

Does a solution exist for backing up VMs from a first proxmox environment and then restoring them on a second (new) proxmox environment ?

I wanna transfer my existing machines on a new system with more important capacity of storage and Raid 1.

Thx for your help

Olivier, Proxmox beginner

 

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi, maybe start with a bit of reading in the wiki docs ?
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

broadly speaking, the clean way to do it
- stop the VMs
- run backups on all VMs, 'stop' mode, to storage which is sufficient to hold them. By default backups will go to the /var/lib/vz/dump local stoarage, unless you have other storage configured.
- once you have them dumped, copy them over to new host
- then restore VMs, as per CLI hints from the wiki above.

if you don't wish to do that,
- stop all VMs
- copy config from old to new; carefully from correct to proper location
- similarly copy the /var/lib/vz/Suitable-path storage location dirs for your VMs.

if you are moving everything it is 'easier'
if they are all KVM based it is 'easier'

probably a good idea to read carefully
and do copy not move


Tim

 

[olifa07]

I gonna try that !
Thx a lot for your help
Regards
Olivier