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Wasim Ahmed
Wasim Ahmed
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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Restoring a VM


Like Backup, we can also restore virtual machines through the Proxmox GUI. VMs can be restored through the Backup menu tab of the VM or by selecting a backup file through the storage content list. If restore is selected through the VM backup option, then the VM ID cannot be changed. To understand this better, let's take a look at the following example:

In the preceding screenshot, we are under the Backup option for VM #112. Since the backup option shows a list of all backup files stored in that backup storage node, we can see the backup files for VM #110. If we select the backup file and then click on Restore, we will not be able to restore the VM #110 on its own. Instead, it will actually replace VM #112. The following screenshot shows the Restore dialog box where the destination VM ID is not definable:

In order to restore a backup file with its original VM ID, we need to select the backup file from the storage content tab menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
Read more about Wasim Ahmed