This section contains issues related to backing up and restoring Proxmox.
Backup/restore issues
Issue – a Proxmox VM is locked after backup crashes unexpectedly
This is a common cause after a VM backup is interrupted or crashed. Simply unlocking the VM through SSH using the following command will fix this issue:
# qm unlock <vm_id>
Issue – how can Proxmox back up only the primary OS virtual disk instead of all the virtual disks for a VM?
By default, a Proxmox backup will back up all the virtual disks assigned to a VM. If we want to exclude certain...