WinSCP transfer of VM's / Containers between Proxmox

[yunmkfed]

Hi,

I have to Proxmox setups that are not clustered. My need is to periodically backup the VMs and containers from the primary to the secondary. The reason is that if the primary goes down I will power up the secondary and take on from the last backup. Both setups hard disk pools are named identically. I will be using WinSCP and the primary machines will be down during this process.

I would need to change the MAC address of the copied VM if I decide to power them up at the same time (mainly to check that the copies loaded ok). I can do this through the hardware option.

I've identified the following folders:

• /etc/pve/quemu-server
• /hdd/data/
• /rpool/data

I am new. Is there any other folder I should include?

Thanks

 

[gfngfn256]

Why do you need these folders at all?
Just WinSCP the backup files (ie: vzdump-*log, vzdump-*.zst, and vzdump-*.notes).
Alternately you could just copy across the whole /dump/ directory where your backups are located.