[pbs-devel] Starting VM from Backup

[Harald Leithner]

Hi,

sorry if this is not the right place to ask.

Is or will it be possible to start a VM directly from the PBS on a PVE 
Node and make a storage migration while the VM is running?


I'm using this at the moment with my own backup solution which is 
basically ZFS with snapshots and Ceph Snapshots with some magic to 
provide ready to go vm configs and disk images.

For restore I clone the zfs snapshot and mount the images on the pve 
node with samba. In case of single file restore I delete the clone 
afterwards. In case of disaster recovery I use PVE storage motion to 
move the disk to the final storage.

Will such case be possible in PBS? Main reason for this is minimum 
downtime for VM that has several 100gb which could need a longtime on 
restore but took 5 minutes to boot it directly from the backup server.

thx
Harald



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