All full backups are in the .tar
format, containing both the configuration file and virtual disk image file. The backup files are all you need to restore a virtual machine on any nodes and on any storage. Full backup files are named based on the following formats for both KVM and LXC virtual machines:
vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar.lzo vzdump-lxc-<ct_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.tar.gz vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma.lzo vzdump-qemu-<vm_id>-YYYY_MM_DD-HH_MM_SS.vma.fz
The following screenshot shows a list of backup files in a backup storage node, as seen from the Proxmox GUI:
The backup list is sortable by the Format
, Type
, or Size
of backup files. From the same page, we can also delete or restore backup files.