Copy Proxmox virtual machine to another server.
List virtual machines.
basilisk:~$ qm list
VMID NAME STATUS MEM(MB) BOOTDISK(GB) PID
10001 ubuntu-jammy-jellyfish running 2048 20.00 714306 qm info 1
Display virtual machine configuration.
basilisk:~$ qm config 10001
boot: order=scsi0;ide2;net0 cores: 2 ide2: none,media=cdrom memory: 2048 meta: creation-qemu=6.2.0,ctime=1656270900 name: ubuntu-jammy-jellyfish net0: virtio=6A:1D:86:B4:CF:43,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1 numa: 0 ostype: l26 scsi0: local-lvm:vm-10001-disk-0,cache=writethrough,iothread=1,replicate=0,size=20G,ssd=1 scsihw: virtio-scsi-single smbios1: uuid=a85af7d3-4a02-4a82-b612-9271c1de907f sockets: 1 vga: std vmgenid: 675763b6-d75e-40fc-919b-5e932aca8407
Stop virtual machine.
basilisk:~$ qm stop 10001
Create compressed backup.
basilisk:~$ vzdump 10001 --compress zstd
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 10001 --compress zstd INFO: Starting Backup of VM 10001 (qemu) INFO: Backup started at 2022-07-13 22:23:48 INFO: status = stopped INFO: backup mode: stop INFO: ionice priority: 7 INFO: VM Name: ubuntu-jammy-jellyfish INFO: include disk 'scsi0' 'local-lvm:vm-10001-disk-0' 20G INFO: creating vzdump archive '/var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-10001-2022_07_13-22_23_48.vma.zst' INFO: starting kvm to execute backup task INFO: started backup task '9b70f2d1-1be0-4811-ba11-b676d5f595fa' INFO: 10% (2.0 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 3s, read: 682.7 MiB/s, write: 156.2 MiB/s INFO: 12% (2.6 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 6s, read: 203.0 MiB/s, write: 146.2 MiB/s INFO: 15% (3.1 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 9s, read: 174.0 MiB/s, write: 170.4 MiB/s INFO: 17% (3.6 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 12s, read: 164.3 MiB/s, write: 155.1 MiB/s INFO: 21% (4.3 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 15s, read: 252.5 MiB/s, write: 150.7 MiB/s INFO: 30% (6.1 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 18s, read: 611.4 MiB/s, write: 130.8 MiB/s INFO: 35% (7.0 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 21s, read: 303.3 MiB/s, write: 140.8 MiB/s INFO: 37% (7.4 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 24s, read: 149.8 MiB/s, write: 135.7 MiB/s INFO: 40% (8.0 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 27s, read: 205.4 MiB/s, write: 150.3 MiB/s INFO: 42% (8.5 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 30s, read: 163.1 MiB/s, write: 148.4 MiB/s INFO: 48% (9.7 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 33s, read: 415.7 MiB/s, write: 147.9 MiB/s INFO: 57% (11.5 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 36s, read: 610.2 MiB/s, write: 114.4 MiB/s INFO: 81% (16.4 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 39s, read: 1.6 GiB/s, write: 49.1 MiB/s INFO: 100% (20.0 GiB of 20.0 GiB) in 41s, read: 1.8 GiB/s, write: 4.0 KiB/s INFO: backup is sparse: 14.74 GiB (73%) total zero data INFO: transferred 20.00 GiB in 41 seconds (499.5 MiB/s) INFO: stopping kvm after backup task INFO: archive file size: 2.14GB trying to acquire lock... OK INFO: Finished Backup of VM 10001 (00:00:44) INFO: Backup finished at 2022-07-13 22:24:32 INFO: Backup job finished successfully
Copy backup archive to another server.
basilisk:~$ scp /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-10001-2022_07_13-22_23_48.vma.zst manticore:~/ vzdump-qemu-10001-2022_07_13-22_23_48.vma.zst 100% 2188MB 111.9MB/s 00:19
Restore backup on remote server.
manticore:~$ qmrestore vzdump-qemu-10001-2022_07_13-22_23_48.vma.zst 10001
restore vma archive: zstd -q -d -c /root/vzdump-qemu-10001-2022_07_13-22_23_48.vma.zst | vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp647964.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp647964 CFG: size: 499 name: qemu-server.conf DEV: dev_id=1 size: 21474836480 devname: drive-scsi0 CTIME: Wed Jul 13 22:23:49 2022 Logical volume "vm-10001-disk-0" created. new volume ID is 'local-lvm:vm-10001-disk-0' map 'drive-scsi0' to '/dev/pve/vm-10001-disk-0' (write zeros = 0) progress 1% (read 214761472 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 2% (read 429522944 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 3% (read 644284416 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 4% (read 859045888 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 5% (read 1073741824 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 6% (read 1288503296 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 7% (read 1503264768 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 8% (read 1718026240 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 9% (read 1932787712 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 10% (read 2147483648 bytes, duration 1 sec) progress 11% (read 2362245120 bytes, 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List virtual machines on remote server.
manticore:~$ qm list
VMID NAME STATUS MEM(MB) BOOTDISK(GB) PID
10001 ubuntu-jammy-jellyfish stopped 2048 20.00 0
Now you can use it right away or just convert it to a template.