[PVE-User] Recovery VM DISK

[Claus Strommer]

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Hard link won't work if the target is on a different partition, but
copying should do the trick.

On 12-04-11 12:20 PM, Alessandro Briosi wrote:
> Il 11/04/2012 17:00, Francesco Gabriele ha scritto:
>> Good evening, we are facing a problem since one vm hard disk
>> (*vm-108-disk-1.raw*) which was stored in the following path:
>> 
>> */storage_lvm/images/108*
>> 
>> had been deleted.
>> 
> 
> The file has been deleted, but it's still in use, so you can do a
> copy from the link in /proc
> 
> try with something like
> 
> lsof | grep vm-108
> 
> you should see something like
> 
> kvm <pid> root <fileid>u .....
> /storage_lvm/images/vm-108-disk-1.raw (deleted)
> 
> that's the file you want to backup with a cat or some other tools.
> 
> i.e. cat /proc/<pid>/fd/<fileid> > /backup/<whatever your file is
> named>
> 
> cat /proc/729/fd/5 > /backup/vm108-disk.raw
> 
> dunno if there's a way to create a hard-link from that reference.
> 
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