Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Configuring full backup

All full backups are in the .tar format, containing both the configuration file and virtual disk image file. The backup files are all you need to restore a virtual machine on any nodes and on any storage. Full backup files are named based on the following formats for both KVM and LXC virtual machines:

vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar 
vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar.lzo 
vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar.gz 
 
vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma 
vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma.lzo 
vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma.fz 

The following screenshot shows a list of backup files in a backup storage node, as seen from the Proxmox GUI:

The backup list is sortable by the  ...