#!/usr/bin/env bash # Move a single VM/CT from one Proxmox node to another via vzdump + # qmrestore/pct restore -- the same relay pattern as # clone-pve1-to-pve-test.sh, but for a *migration* (the guest ends up # living on the target node only) rather than a *clone* (a disposable # copy, source untouched, fresh MAC). # # There is no real `qm migrate` here: that command only works between # nodes in the same Proxmox cluster with shared/replicated storage, which # pve1 and pve-test are not (see CLAUDE.md's "Two Proxmox nodes" section -- # they're deliberately separate, unclustered nodes). This script is the # closest equivalent across two independent nodes, built out of the same # primitives as the clone script. It is NOT a true live migration -- read # the caveat below before using it for anything where losing a few # seconds/minutes of writes is unacceptable. # # Flow: # 1. vzdump the resource on the source node (--mode snapshot by # default, so the source keeps running throughout the bulk copy -- # this is the part that's "live": the guest stays reachable while # its disk data is captured and shipped to the target). # 2. Stream the archive straight from the source node to the target # node (ssh source cat ... | ssh target cat > ...), same relay this # machine does in the clone script -- no separate on-disk staging # copy here either. # 3. qmrestore / pct restore it on the target node under the same VMID # by default (--new-vmid to pick a different one). Restored WITHOUT # --unique (i.e. original MAC preserved) unless --unique is passed # explicitly -- unlike the clone script, the source is being retired, # not left running alongside a copy, so there's no address collision # to avoid. qmrestore/pct restore don't start the guest, so nothing # is live on the target node yet. # 4. Cutover: stop the guest on the source node, then (unless --no-start) # start it on the target node. This is the only real downtime window # -- everything before this point runs with the source guest still # up. # 5. Unless --remove-source is passed, the now-stopped guest is LEFT ON # the source node as a safety net (config + disk intact, just # powered off) -- easy to start back up if the target copy turns out # to be broken. Pass --remove-source to actually destroy it there # once you've verified the target is good; this step gets its own # typed confirmation since qm destroy/pct destroy is irreversible. # 6. Delete the vzdump archive from both nodes' storage (unless # --keep-backup), same as the clone script -- neither node # accumulates ad hoc backup files from this script. # # --- IMPORTANT CAVEAT: this is not byte-perfect live migration --- # vzdump is not incremental. With the default --mode snapshot, the source # guest keeps running (and can keep writing to disk) for the entire time # between when the snapshot is taken and when this script stops it at # cutover. Any writes in that window are NOT captured in the archive and # will NOT exist on the target. For a large disk this window can be # minutes. If the workload can't tolerate that: # - use --mode stop (or --mode suspend) instead, which makes the source # guest go down *before* vzdump reads its disk, so the archive is # exactly the state being migrated and cutover has nothing left to # lose -- at the cost of the guest being down for the whole backup # duration instead of just the final cutover. # - or don't use this script -- put both nodes in an actual Proxmox # cluster with shared storage and use `qm migrate --online` instead, # which is the real thing this script is only approximating. # # This script's own defaults are pve1 -> pve-test, matching # clone-pve1-to-pve-test.sh and CLAUDE.md's "Two Proxmox nodes" section -- # but unlike that script, this one is a generic node-to-node mover: pass # --source-node/--target-node for any other pair. Regardless of node # names, the source resource is only ever touched here after typing the # source VMID back to confirm, and destroying it on the source node # (--remove-source) requires a second, separate typed confirmation. # # See --help for the full option list. set -euo pipefail repo_root="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.." && pwd)" # shellcheck source=../env.sh source "${repo_root}/scripts/env.sh" # shellcheck source=../lib/confirm.sh source "${repo_root}/scripts/lib/confirm.sh" usage() { cat < [options] --vmid Required: VMID on the source node to migrate. Kind (qemu VM vs LXC CT) is auto-detected. --new-vmid VMID to restore as on the target node (default: same as --vmid). --mode snapshot|suspend|stop vzdump backup mode (default: snapshot -- the source resource keeps running until cutover; requires snapshot-capable storage, e.g. ZFS/LVM-thin/Ceph/qcow2). Use "stop" for a byte-perfect migration with no post-snapshot write gap (source goes down for the whole backup duration instead of just cutover) -- see the caveat at the top of this script. --source-node (default: \$PVE1_HOST, ${PVE1_HOST}) --target-node (default: \$PVE_TEST_HOST, ${PVE_TEST_HOST}) --source-storage Where vzdump writes the backup on the source node (default: local). --target-storage Where the restored disk/rootfs lands on the target node (default: \$PROXMOX_STORAGE, ${PROXMOX_STORAGE}). --unique Restore with a fresh MAC address (--unique 1), as the clone script always does. Off by default here since the source is being retired, not left running alongside the target. --no-start Don't start the guest on the target node after cutover (default: start it). --remove-source Destroy the guest on the source node (qm destroy/pct destroy) after a successful cutover, instead of just leaving it stopped there. Irreversible -- prompts for its own typed confirmation unless --yes. --keep-backup Don't delete the vzdump archive from either node afterward (debugging aid). --yes Skip all typed confirmations (initial backup, cutover, and --remove-source if passed). --dry-run Print the full plan and skip every mutating step (vzdump, transfer, restore, cutover, destroy, delete) and every confirm prompt. Still makes read-only SSH calls to look up the source kind and check the target VMID is free -- harmless on either node. -h, --help EOF } vmid="" new_vmid="" mode="snapshot" source_node="$PVE1_HOST" target_node="$PVE_TEST_HOST" source_storage="local" target_storage="$PROXMOX_STORAGE" unique=0 start_target=1 remove_source=0 keep_backup=0 skip_confirm=0 dry_run=0 while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do case "$1" in --vmid) vmid="$2"; shift 2 ;; --new-vmid) new_vmid="$2"; shift 2 ;; --mode) mode="$2"; shift 2 ;; --source-node) source_node="$2"; shift 2 ;; --target-node) target_node="$2"; shift 2 ;; --source-storage) source_storage="$2"; shift 2 ;; --target-storage) target_storage="$2"; shift 2 ;; --unique) unique=1; shift ;; --no-start) start_target=0; shift ;; --remove-source) remove_source=1; shift ;; --keep-backup) keep_backup=1; shift ;; --yes) skip_confirm=1; shift ;; --dry-run) dry_run=1; shift ;; -h | --help) usage; exit 0 ;; *) echo "Unknown option: $1" >&2; usage >&2; exit 1 ;; esac done if [[ -z "$vmid" ]]; then echo "ERROR: --vmid is required." >&2 usage >&2 exit 1 fi if [[ "$mode" != "snapshot" && "$mode" != "suspend" && "$mode" != "stop" ]]; then echo "ERROR: --mode must be snapshot, suspend, or stop." >&2 exit 1 fi [[ -z "$new_vmid" ]] && new_vmid="$vmid" source_target="${PROXMOX_SSH_USER}@${source_node}" target_target="${PROXMOX_SSH_USER}@${target_node}" # No dry-run wrapper needed for the calls below: every mutating step # (vzdump, transfer, restore, cutover, destroy, delete) is reached only # after the --dry-run early-exit further down, so a plain `ssh` call is # never in the dry-run path. # --- identify the resource kind on the source node ----------------------- echo "==> Looking up VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node}..." kind="" if ssh "$source_target" "qm status ${vmid}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then kind="vm" elif ssh "$source_target" "pct status ${vmid}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then kind="lxc" else echo "ERROR: VMID ${vmid} doesn't exist on ${source_node} as either a VM or CT." >&2 exit 1 fi echo "VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node} is a ${kind}." # --- refuse to clobber an existing resource on the target node ----------- if ssh "$target_target" "qm status ${new_vmid}" >/dev/null 2>&1 \ || ssh "$target_target" "pct status ${new_vmid}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "ERROR: VMID ${new_vmid} already exists on ${target_node}. Pass --new-vmid" >&2 echo "with a free ID, or remove the existing resource there first." >&2 exit 1 fi echo echo "Plan:" echo " source: ${kind} VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node} (storage: ${source_storage}, mode: ${mode})" echo " target: VMID ${new_vmid} on ${target_node} (storage: ${target_storage}," \ "$([[ "$unique" -eq 1 ]] && echo "fresh MAC via --unique" || echo "original MAC preserved"))" echo " cutover: stop VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node}," \ "$([[ "$start_target" -eq 1 ]] && echo "then start VMID ${new_vmid} on ${target_node}" || echo "target left stopped (--no-start)")" if [[ "$remove_source" -eq 1 ]]; then echo " after cutover: DESTROY VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node} (--remove-source, irreversible)" else echo " after cutover: source VMID ${vmid} left stopped (but intact) on ${source_node}" fi [[ "$keep_backup" -eq 1 ]] && echo " backup archives are kept on both nodes afterward (--keep-backup)" if [[ "$dry_run" -eq 1 ]]; then echo echo "[dry-run] No backup, transfer, restore, cutover, destroy, or delete was performed." exit 0 fi if [[ "$skip_confirm" -ne 1 ]]; then echo if ! confirm_typed "$vmid" "Type the source VMID (${vmid}) to confirm backing it up from ${source_node} for migration: "; then echo "Cancelled -- input didn't match ${vmid}." >&2 exit 1 fi fi # --- vzdump on the source node -------------------------------------------- echo echo "==> Backing up VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node} (mode=${mode}, storage=${source_storage})..." vzdump_log="$(ssh "$source_target" \ "vzdump ${vmid} --mode ${mode} --storage ${source_storage} --compress zstd" 2>&1)" \ || { echo "$vzdump_log" >&2 echo "ERROR: vzdump failed on ${source_node}." >&2 exit 1 } echo "$vzdump_log" archive="$(echo "$vzdump_log" | grep -oP "creating vzdump archive '\K[^']+" | tail -n1)" if [[ -z "$archive" ]]; then echo "ERROR: couldn't find the archive path in vzdump's output above." >&2 exit 1 fi archive_basename="$(basename "$archive")" target_tmp_archive="/var/tmp/${archive_basename}" echo "Archive: ${archive}" # Always clean up the relayed copy on the target node, success or failure # -- it's only ever a working copy, restored or not. cleanup_target_tmp() { if [[ "$keep_backup" -ne 1 ]]; then ssh "$target_target" "rm -f '${target_tmp_archive}'" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true fi } trap cleanup_target_tmp EXIT # --- relay the archive from source to target ------------------------------ echo echo "==> Transferring archive to ${target_node}..." ssh "$source_target" "cat '${archive}'" | ssh "$target_target" "cat > '${target_tmp_archive}'" # --- restore on the target node -------------------------------------------- echo echo "==> Restoring as VMID ${new_vmid} on ${target_node} (storage=${target_storage})..." restore_unique_flag=0 [[ "$unique" -eq 1 ]] && restore_unique_flag=1 if [[ "$kind" == "vm" ]]; then ssh "$target_target" "qmrestore '${target_tmp_archive}' ${new_vmid} --storage ${target_storage} --unique ${restore_unique_flag}" else ssh "$target_target" "pct restore ${new_vmid} '${target_tmp_archive}' --storage ${target_storage} --unique ${restore_unique_flag}" fi echo "Restored on ${target_node}. Source VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node} is still up --" \ "the guest hasn't moved yet." # --- cutover: stop source, start target ----------------------------------- if [[ "$skip_confirm" -ne 1 ]]; then echo if ! confirm_typed "$vmid" "Type the source VMID (${vmid}) again to confirm CUTOVER (stop it on ${source_node}$([[ "$start_target" -eq 1 ]] && echo ", start VMID ${new_vmid} on ${target_node}")): "; then echo "Cancelled before cutover -- input didn't match ${vmid}." >&2 echo "The restored (but not started) copy remains on ${target_node} as VMID ${new_vmid};" >&2 echo "the source on ${source_node} is untouched. Re-run cutover manually, or clean up" >&2 echo "the target copy if you no longer want it." >&2 exit 1 fi fi echo echo "==> Stopping VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node}..." if [[ "$kind" == "vm" ]]; then ssh "$source_target" "qm stop ${vmid}" else ssh "$source_target" "pct stop ${vmid}" fi if [[ "$start_target" -eq 1 ]]; then echo echo "==> Starting VMID ${new_vmid} on ${target_node}..." if [[ "$kind" == "vm" ]]; then ssh "$target_target" "qm start ${new_vmid}" else ssh "$target_target" "pct start ${new_vmid}" fi fi # --- optionally destroy the now-stopped source resource ------------------- if [[ "$remove_source" -eq 1 ]]; then if [[ "$skip_confirm" -ne 1 ]]; then echo if ! confirm_typed "$vmid" "Type the source VMID (${vmid}) one more time to permanently DESTROY it on ${source_node}: "; then echo "Cancelled -- input didn't match ${vmid}." >&2 echo "VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node} is left stopped (not destroyed). VMID ${new_vmid}" >&2 echo "on ${target_node} is up and running." >&2 exit 1 fi fi echo echo "==> Destroying VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node}..." if [[ "$kind" == "vm" ]]; then ssh "$source_target" "qm destroy ${vmid} --purge" else ssh "$source_target" "pct destroy ${vmid} --purge" fi fi # --- clean up backup archives now that the migration succeeded ----------- if [[ "$keep_backup" -ne 1 ]]; then echo echo "==> Deleting backup archive from ${source_node}'s ${source_storage} storage..." ssh "$source_target" "rm -f '${archive}' '${archive}.notes' '${archive}.log'" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true fi echo echo "Done. VMID ${new_vmid} (${kind}) is now on ${target_node}, migrated from" \ "VMID ${vmid} on ${source_node}." if [[ "$remove_source" -ne 1 ]]; then echo "The source copy is stopped but still present on ${source_node} -- re-run with" \ "--remove-source once you've verified the target, or remove it manually." fi