[PVE-User] New virtual machine from backup?

[Gerald Brandt]

Hi,

Yup, figured it out.  Thanks!

Gerald


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Brandt" <gbr at majentis.com>
> To: "Guy" <guy at britewhite.net>
> Cc: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 9:28:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] New virtual machine from backup?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Guy" <guy at britewhite.net>
> > To: "Gerald Brandt" <gbr at majentis.com>
> > Cc: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> > Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 9:19:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PVE-User] New virtual machine from backup?
> > 
> > Yes of course. Isn't that kids the point on backups!
> > 
> > I do this all the time anyway. I snapshot my windows systems and
> > then
> > restore them from backup, once I've infected them with malware.
> > 
> > ---Guy
> > (via iPhone)
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Guy,
> 
> But if I'm looking at this the right way, I would need to create the
> VM first, and have to know it's disk configurations, etc.  Then I
> would have to do a restore.  If I get the disk configurations wrong,
> what happens to the restore attempt?
> 
> I'm coming from a Citrix XenServer world, where I can snapshot,
> export, and create a new VM from the exported file (import), without
> needing to know any details of what i am importing.
> 
> 
> Gerald
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