qmrestore

Restore QemuServer vzdump backups. More information: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qmrestore.1.html.

Restore virtual machine from given backup file on the original storage:

qmrestore {{path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo}} {{100}}

Overwrite existing virtual machine from a given backup file on the original storage:

qmrestore {{path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo}} {{100}} --force true

Restore the virtual machine from a given backup file on specific storage:

qmrestore {{path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo}} {{100}} --storage {{local}}

Start virtual machine immediately from the backup while restoring in the background (only on Proxmox Backup Server):

qmrestore {{path/to/vzdump-qemu-100.vma.lzo}} {{100}} --live-restore true