[PVE-User] Backup / Restore KVM-Image using qcow2

[Knaupp, Thomas]

Hello,

is it possible to restore a kvm machine using a qcow2 disk image in a way, that the image is "growing" and not allocating the full disk size?


I just did a backup of a machine and restored it on another server.
Disk size was 10x bigger after that.


Virtual disk on original server:

# ls -alF
total 8062524
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root        4096 Oct 25 21:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root        4096 Oct 25 21:24 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85912715264 Apr 18 15:58 vm-148-disk-1.qcow2

# du -sh
7.7G


After vzdump it's only 2.7 GBs   :)

        695 Apr 18 16:05 vzdump-qemu-148-2013_04_18-15_58_52.log
 2745120768 Apr 18 16:05 vzdump-qemu-148-2013_04_18-15_58_52.tar


But after restoring on another server, it uses the full assigned 85 GB  -_-

# qmrestore vzdump-qemu-148-2013_04_18-15_58_52.tar 590
extracting archive '/root/vzdump-qemu-148-2013_04_18-15_58_52.tar'
extracting 'qemu-server.conf' from archive
extracting 'vm-disk-virtio0.qcow2' from archive
Formatting '/var/lib/vz/images/590/vm-590-disk-1.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=32768 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata' lazy_refcounts=off
new volume ID is 'local:590/vm-590-disk-1.qcow2'
restore data to '/var/lib/vz/images/590/vm-590-disk-1.qcow2' (85912715264 bytes)
779+104311853 records in
327731+0 records out
85912715264 bytes (86 GB) copied, 1507.23 s, 57.0 MB/s



# ls -alF
total 83981168
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root        4096 Apr 18 16:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root        4096 Apr 18 16:10 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85912715264 Apr 18 21:15 vm-590-disk-1.qcow2

# du -sh
81G


I want the virt. disk to be 80 GB. So making it smaller is no option.
But I just don't want to allocate that much space from the start when it's not needed yet.

Any hints?


Kind regards
Tom


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