pvesm: Add example & clarification for export

[pve-docs.git] / pvesm.adoc

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@@ -357,6 +357,14 @@ Show file system path for a volume
 
  pvesm path <VOLUME_ID>
 
+Exporting the volume `local:103/vm-103-disk-0.qcow2` to the file `target`.
+This is mostly used internally with `pvesm import`.
+The stream format qcow2+size is different to the qcow2 format.
+Consequently, the exported file cannot simply be attached to a VM.
+This also holds for the other formats.
+
+ pvesm export local:103/vm-103-disk-0.qcow2 qcow2+size target --with-snapshots 1
+
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