<![CDATA[How to export detached backup?]]>I have several detached backups from an old VM that I was having trouble with. The VM is gone and I'm decommissioning the pool it was running on. I've moved all of my current VMs to the new pool but I want to archive these backups.

How can I export the VM backup without restoring it first?

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/11059/how-to-export-detached-backupRSS for NodeThu, 10 Sep 2026 21:59:02 GMTThu, 10 Jul 2025 14:56:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to export detached backup? on Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:38:04 GMT]]>@olivierlambert Hmm. It may just be easier to do a restore and export.

I tried doing a file restore of / but I get a Cannot GET error when trying to download the tgz. I don't see anything in the UI to indicate what the problem is or if it actually created the tgz.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/95195https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/95195Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:38:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to export detached backup? on Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:16:09 GMT]]>Yes, the whole folder for each VM and job ID. I'm not 100% sure about the folder "on top" of it, but better safe than sorry 🙂

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/95194https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/95194Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:16:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to export detached backup? on Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:11:23 GMT]]>@olivierlambert I assume you're referring to the entire VM UUID folder under xo-vm-backups? Do I need the whole folder? If I ever need to restore it do I just copy the folder back into the backups dir?

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/95192https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/95192Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:11:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to export detached backup? on Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:57:24 GMT]]>You can move all the files related to this job to another place (with rsync for example, or scp or cp)

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