ProxMox - Migration, Backup, and Restoration Tutorial

Moving services to new hardware can get tricky. If you've ever needed to move VMs from an old ProxMox server to a new one, this is the video for you.

But first... What am I drinking???

From Free State Brewing (Lawrence, KS), it's Stormchaser IPA. I've never met an IPA that was so much dislike it's own description. I'm almost wondering if they canned the wrong beer here... because it's definitely an IPA, but nothing like the description on the can. (5.5-ish%)

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[leonlionheart]

That's not Jeff!
*Holds up Drink*
Never mind that's Jeff. RIP Hair.

[FSULAUBACH]

I already knew how to do all of this but still enjoyed watching this to see your point of view on how to do it. These are the types of video's I keep coming back to this channel for honestly. Things that informative and beneficial to me and my own homelab.

[Practical-IT]

Great video Jeff. I really appreciate finding some more advanced Proxmox VE content. It definitely give me ideas for where I want my home lab to go. Cheers!

[lorenzocernecca]

Bravo Jeff, I stumbled across your videos this week and was very impressed with your content. Especially how well you presented setting up Proxmox with FreeNAS. I wish I had seen this turorial years ago when we had to upgrade some clustered servers with Proxmox ver 4 and I remember spending numerous hours planning how to migrate to new hardware with minimal downtime. I no longer look after Proxmox but did enjoy working with it and this video brought back memories. I was also interested in how freeNAS integrated with Proxmox but never had the time to try it as we we used dedicated SANs for shared storage. It was great that you were able to show me this with your videos. Proxmox can be a challenge understanding networking and storage commands if not familiar with Linux but once running Proxmox is pretty straight forward to manage from the web interface.

[thewiLik]

I've always wanted you to do more of the shorter informational type videos like this, rather than just several hour 'news' live streams....great content! Giving up your day job can only take this channel in one direction.... ↑

[jayzn]

Thank you for showing this! Just tried it with an important vm and it worked flawlessly!

[wetsox]

Way out of date, but useful enough to be able to work out how to back up Proxmox 8.2. Thank you so much for this tutorial.

[jackrabbittslim]

Enjoyed the video and I love Proxmox. Replicating and snapshotting made easy. Thanks for all the tutorials.

[aaronjohnson]

Was just looking for how to restore an old backup from Proxmox Backup server when a test machine wouldn't come back after being down for several months. Pretty happy I can restore it right on to the primary server for maintenance, couldn't figure out how to bring it back from PBS until I skimmed this video. Thanks dude! Finally subscribing, and cheers.

[adam-user]

Great video as always! Straightforward and understandable 👍

[MinhNguyen-wkfr]

Like the new look man. I learn a lot from you. I'm building a promox soon and will use your guide to help me out along the way. Thanks a lot

[leifhanson]

Great video and I love the way you describe the beer!

[JuanLopez-dbcc]

Thanks for this Video! Awesome to talk about Proxmox and the things one can do with it.

[beardeddad_NL]

Thanks for this tutorial Craft! I helped me to easily migrate my proxmox Containers and VM's to a new server!

[JonathanRLap]

Honestly i think your haircut looks so much better and more fresh if you like! and i REALLY like the tutorials section which you are taking up again. Thanks Jeff!

[wannabesq]

Excellent video. I had to restore my VMs, as I accidentally deleted the linux kernel on my proxmox box. Good thing the restore process is so straightforward!

[malbeth]

Love the haircut! And the Let's Get Crafty Shirt is back!!! Yay!!!! Can't wait til we can buy some CraftComputing merch! ;)

[RKGraves]

Jeff, Excellent Tutorial Sir - Thank You!

[chrisumali]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[mikes]

I am seriously glad that I spent my childhood listening to and understanding Spock so that I was able to hear (and understand) Sheldon to gear up to Jeff, the informational Autobahn <\/, ,