August 3, 2015 - Never tried, but, looking at my VMs storage folder, you should probably: stop the VM to be cloned, clone it as usual on a storage that allows snapshots (like NFS fore above qcow2 example) and then by CLI copy snapshots raw images in the destination folder, renaming them appropriately note: the destination VM should have in its .conf a line like vmstate: <storage name>:122/vm-122-state-img_002.raw stating what snapshot file is in use now and a line like snaptime: 1438262544 stating when the snapshot in use was taken, I guess.

February 16, 2020 - @Fabian_E you are right: need to copy original main disk from disabled vm and all the snapshots, to make this "feature" works. of cource with replacing storage/mac/vmgenid in clonded config (original config copy-pasta).

August 1, 2024 - If you really want to clone a VM ... 1. Go to the directory on your NAS share, where the VM's qcow2 file is located (usually called `images`) and copy the whole directory and rename the files accordingly to the new VM's id (you may need ...

May 19, 2023 - How to do that? Thanks a lot. ... Right click on the source VM and hit clone. Then you pick the snapshot you want: ... a second problem is that i do not have enough free space on that host. That's the reason for the question about "zfs send".

May 27, 2021 - If you have snapshots of the VM and you select one of those, the created clone will be in the same state as the VM when the snapshot was taken. For more information about cloning VMs take a look at [1]. [1] https://localhost:8006/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#qm_copy_and_clone

September 26, 2020 - zfs send -R hddpool/proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-disk-0@ready_to_move | zfs recv hddpool/enc_proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-disk-0 - step4 = send the state volumes (states volumes are created when snapshotting an active VM with the "include RAM" checkbox ticked). You can list them with "zfs list" ... zfs send hddpool/proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-state-snap2 | zfs recv hddpool/enc_proxmox_directories/type_zfs/vm-110-state-snap2 - step5 = update all paths in /etc/pve/qemu-server/110.conf - step6 = start VM and test everything - step7 = destroy the old volumes and snapshots (with the -r flag)

July 28, 2020 - In order not to stop the operation of the entire virtual machine, But to create a new virtual machine from yesterday's snapshot. Get the file you want and delete it. ... it depends on the storage whether this works or not. you can try yourself ...

January 4, 2025 - zfs send \ rpool/data/vm-$SOURCE_VM_ID-state-snapshot1 \ | zfs receive rpool/data/vm-$DEST_VM_ID-disk-0-state-snapshot1 zfs send \ rpool/data/vm-$SOURCE_VM_ID-state-snapshot2 \ | zfs receive rpool/data/vm-$DEST_VM_ID-state-snapshot2 zfs send \ rpool/data/vm-$SOURCE_VM_ID-state-snapshot3 \ | zfs receive rpool/data/vm-$DEST_VM_ID-state-snapshot3 · Now we have our snapshots, but they wont show up in the proxmox GUI. To resolve this we need to manually create or update the clone's Proxmox config file, in order to specify to tell Proxmox about the snapshots. This is easily done by copying the configuration file for the original VM over to the clone like so:

April 13, 2015 - This work with any storage. (so you don't need to backup/restore). linked clone of vm is not implemented. ... Are you looking for a French Proxmox training center? https://www.groupe-cyllene.com/formation-proxmox/ ... Here is how to make a copy-on-write clone of a container when storage is rbd on ceph. In this example we take a snapshot of 184 which is in ceph pool "mypool" and copy-on-write clone will be 199.

January 17, 2024 - You'd need to, while the VM is down, copy the snap_vm-XYZ-disk-N_NAME and vm-XYZ-state-NAME volumes and the actual volumes (state volumes are only present for snapshots with RAM) to the new storage and adapt the VM configuration file accordingly ...

August 26, 2014 - Click to expand... copy - vm config file : /etc/pve/qemu-server/vmid.cfg - vm disk : /var/lib/vz/images/<vmid>/* to your new server. if you change the vmid, edit your vm.cfg file, and rename the vm disk files ...

May 12, 2023 - Welcome to r/Proxmox , the main subreddit regarding the Proxmox hypervisor! ... I'd like to create a linked clone (either from a template or another VM), but with the caveat that it contains RAM state from a given snapshot. This way, the new VM can skip the boot sequence and have prerequisites started and ready to go and because it's a linked clone, it doesn't need to copy ...

March 18, 2022 - You could for example backup the VMs/LXCs using Vzdump to the Zvdump Storage on server A. Then copy over the backup files, using the program of your choice, to the Vzdump storage on server B and restore the VMs/LXCs there. If you are using ZFS as your storage you can use ZFS replication (see here for example) to copy datasets/zvols between pools or even hosts and this will also include snapshots. ... I'm using the backup tool from within a VM, which creates a .gz file in /var/lib/vz/dump.

April 20, 2017 - Unfortunately I am not sure if this was working in 4.x or something that came with the 5.0 code. ... Best regards, Dominik Do you already have a Commercial Support Subscription? - If not, Buy now and read the documentation ... cloning from snapshot is not available on all storage need to have snap=>1 in plugin (maybe do you use zfs ?) grep -r copy /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/ /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/RBDPlugin.pm: copy => { base => 1, current => 1, snap => 1}, /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/ZFSPlugin.pm: copy => { base => 1, current => 1}, /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/DRBDPlugin.pm: copy =>

September 21, 2020 - Of cause, you can use "zfs send | zfs receive" to incrementally sync snapshots to another server but that creates a 1:1 copy of all files and they are then just a tool to create full backups.

February 3, 2025 - With this you can transfer all data in a ZFS dataset (or ZVol in this case) including all ZFS-snapshots. Then manually copy /etc/pve/local/qemu-server/<yourvmid>.conf and edit it manually to reflect the new names of storage etc. This file includes a separate stanza for each snapshot.

March 14, 2022 - Yes, unfortunately this is not implemented in our storage layer for ZFS yet. You can try to copy it yourself, creating a dummy VM (I'm using ID 180 below, like you did) without disks and then using

June 9, 2021 - This involves several steps, resizing the disk in Proxmox, then resizing the partition inside the VM and then resizing the filesystem. ... I'm trying to resize a disk to double the size. Would a snapshot protect the data in case something goes wrong? Click to expand... In general it should. But there is always "it depends". Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

October 23, 2021 - Click to expand... not completetly, in addition to the storage level snapshots, we save the snapshots in the config file too ( e.g. /etc/pve/nodes/NODENAME/qemu-server/ID.conf) these config snapshots are the authority for showing snapshots in pve (and the names correspond with the snapshots on the storage layer) this is done since the hardware config of the vm can change between snapshots and to correctly rollback the snapshot it must be the same as when taking the snapshot (when ram is included) that's another thing, if you take snapshots with ram, for each snapshot there is a volume on the storage for that (which you must also copy)