On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:17:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Bumiller wrote: > b) block-based backups > - VMs on PVE > > This stores whole disks, and we include a way to "attach" a disk from > a backup to a VM (may even be hotplugged). Just imagine this like > using a .raw disk image from any other remote storage such as NFS. If > your guest operating system can read it, you can do whatever from > inside the guest.
When you say 'we include a way', you mean you are going to include it? This isn't yet available, right? > There's no *direct* support for extracting files from a block device. > There *may* at some point be some way to do this, but we cannot make > any promises there, and it may well just be some predefined VM template > auto-logging into an xfce or gnome session with a file browser open > ready to mount any attached disk ;-) I know UrBackup allows you to do this, even with Windows and networking enabled. -- Mark Schouten | Tuxis B.V. KvK: 74698818 | http://www.tuxis.nl/ T: +31 318 200208 | [email protected] _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
