Restoring through the command line

Although the same vzdump command can be used to back up both KVM and OpenVZ VMs, there are separate commands to restore each of them:

• qmrestore: This is to restore a KVM-based VM

• vzrestore: This is to restore OpenVZ containers

How to do it...

The following command will restore KVM VMs through a command line:

# qmrestore <backup_file> <vmid> [options]

These options can be used with the qmrestore command:

Option	Function
-force	This has a boolean value of 0 or 1 to allow the overwriting of an existing VM.
-unique	This has a boolean value of 0 or 1 to assign a unique random Ethernet address.
-pool	This is the name of the pool to add the VM to.
-storage	This is the storage ID of the destination storage where a VM's disk image will be restored.

This command will restore OpenVZ containers through a command line:

# vzrestore <backup_file> <vmid> [options]

The following options can be used with the vzrestore command:

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