How to Export or backup your Proxmox VM and convert to qcow2

How to Export or backup your Proxmox VM and convert to qcow2 image

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Instructions;
1. ssh into your promox server
2. run pvesm path Volume-ID (Volume-ID can be found in the hardware section of the VM
3. qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -f raw INPUT-PATH OUTPUT.qcow2
(Input-PATH = Volume-ID
4. You can use winscp to download the file.
5. Have fun

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