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qmrestore

Restore QemuServer vzdump backups. More information: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qmrestore.1.html.

  • Restore virtual machine from given backup file on the original storage:

qmrestore path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo 100

  • Overwrite existing virtual machine from a given backup file on the original storage:

qmrestore path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo 100 --force true

  • Restore the virtual machine from a given backup file on specific storage:

qmrestore path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo 100 --storage local

  • Start virtual machine immediately from the backup while restoring in the background (only on Proxmox Backup Server):

qmrestore path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo 100 --live-restore true

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