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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition
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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

by Wasim Ahmed
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Restore using the CLI

Although the same command can be used to perform a backup for both KVM and LXC, there are two separate commands available to restore the KVM and LXC virtual machines:

  • qm restore: To restore KVM-based VMs
  • pct restore: To restore LXC containers

The following command format will restore KVM VMs through the command line:

#qmrestore <backup_file> <new/old_vmid> <options>  

Based on the previous command, if we want to restore our example KVM #100 from a backup onto local storage, it will appear as follows:

#qmrestore /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-110-2017_08_13-20_24_26.vma.lzo 110 -storage local  

The following options can be used with the qmrestore command:

Options

Description

-force <int>

The Boolean value is ...

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