[PVE-User] Moving virtual machine from CE 6.X to latest enterprise edition, advice requested

[Joseph John]

Hi
Thanks.

The backup option for some reason not completing successfully
from the log files
cat  /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-109-2023_08_02-12_34_08.log
2023-08-02 12:42:10 ERROR: vma_queue_write: write error - Broken pipe
2023-08-02 12:42:10 INFO: aborting backup job
2023-08-02 12:42:10 INFO: stopping kvm after backup task
2023-08-02 12:42:13 ERROR: Backup of VM 109 failed - vma_queue_write: write
error - Broken pipe

the GUI /Web way of taking backup not working
I have to find another way of taking the image and putting it on the new
setup , the present one storage is based on the ceph storage and the vm are
in the ceph pook
I am thinking a way in which I can try to take to VM image from the ceph
pool  and move it to the other  new pve instance

Guidance requested  for getting the vm images to new proxmox



Thanks
Joseph John



On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 11:37 AM Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer at proxmox.com>
wrote:

> That sounds like a reasonable plan.
>
> If you have a network share that you want to utilize for the backups later
> on
> (never store them on the same machine, 3-2-1 backup strategy and such ;) )
> you
> could already configure it on the old Proxmox VE server. That way, you
> don't
> have to manually move the backup files over. Since you are decommissioning
> the
> old server, there is no risk of running into issues of two different
> Proxmox VE
> clusters (or separate single nodes), accessing the exact same storage.
>
> Under normal situations, you don't want to give two Proxmox VE clusters
> access
> to the same storage, as you might run into VMID conflicts.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> On 8/2/23 09:31, Joseph John wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > Good morning
> > We are going to have ProxMox 8 enterprise edition setup, installation is
> > going on.
> >
> > Earlier we were using ProxMox 6.X Community Edition, this is a  separate
> > unit which we were using . Now once the enterprise edition is up, we plan
> > to move all the VM instance which were on the old 6.X  CE to the
> separate
> > ProxMox 8 enterprise edition
> >
> > I am planning to move the old vm form the CE (6.X) to ProxMox 8
> (Enterprise
> > Edition)  in the following way
> >
> >     - Take  backup of the VM at CE using the backup option
> >     - scp/rsync  the  backup files to the Prox Mox 8 Enterprise version
> >     - Use the restore option from the new server to restore the image
> >
> >
> > Like to get advice, if the above mentioned steps is apt when you are
> going
> > to move from one of the older CE edition [6.X] to the latest enterprise
> > edition
> >
> > Thanks
> > Joseph John
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