All the "how do I move my stuff to a new hard drive" just cover backing up VMs, and doing a clean proxmox install, but I have stuff in the proxmox install itself I dont want to redo (stuff for PCI passthrough etc, already done and working). Is there no way? I have a single large HDD that can fit the entire system in it. Is there a way to "backup" everything in one shot to it, and "restore" it into a clean proxmox install (importing the proxmox changes too)? Or should I just bite the bullet and redo the passthrough / grub / etc crap?I would even ask if I can skip a "clean install" by "cloning" into the new drive, but the issue is that I am moving from a single drive to a raid1 install.
What is the easiest way to backup the entire system (proxmox AND VMs)?
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Look into the bkpcrit script, point it to separate disk / NAS, run it nightly in cron.
You can try Relax-And-Recover (REAR) or I also have custom fsarchiver scripts in that repo to do full bare-hardware image backup/restore of PVE - you can test-restore into a VM. My method, you need to rerun the PVE installer first to recreate the lvm / lvm-thin and then restore over root, but REAR may do it for you
Look into the bkpcrit script, point it to separate disk / NAS, run it nightly in cron.
You can try Relax-And-Recover (REAR) or I also have custom fsarchiver scripts in that repo to do full bare-hardware image backup/restore of PVE - you can test-restore into a VM. My method, you need to rerun the PVE installer first to recreate the lvm / lvm-thin and then restore over root, but REAR may do it for you
