Moving data folder from a kvm image to another?

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Hi all

I currently have a mature properly functioning Nextcloud 20.0.8 operating on a kvm image of ubuntu 18, Mysql 5. nginx, php7.3.

This a homesetup for family of 6 people using.

Currently have about 200gigs in the /mnt/data folder.

Doing image backups of this kvm image is a total time consuming ordeal.

Because I would like to be able to upgrade and also backup the image of this Nextcloud setup, I would like to move this data folder.

Wondering if I could move this folder, either onto another kvm image, or on the kvm server.

The kvm host has only ubuntu 18 & kvm server on it. It has lots of room and power to add images if need be.

Can this be even done?

Regards

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Have you considered using ESXi as hypervisor?

If nothing else, it can use Veeam as a backup.
And the latter has a community edition that can backup 10 VMs for free…

There are ways to convert kvm images to vmdk (VMWare format)
https://possiblelossofprecision.net/?p=2293

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Hi Traffle,

when I build a new KMV image, I use rsync to copy my Nextcloud en other content: rsync -avzh user@webserver-old:/var/www/localhost/htdocs/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/

For backup, I use a tool inside the webserver image: flexbackup to backup to a local backup directory and subsequently copy the backup files to another host. You can also use rsync to create a backup, there are so many options.

Regards in return

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Great Thank you for letting me know