pbs-client Restore Image

[mrdmadev]

Hello,

I was able to boot a Debian Live image and do a complete image backup of the NVME drive on the host using:

proxmox-backup-client backup nvme.img:/dev/nvme0n1

I tried restoring that image using:

proxmox-backup-client restore host/MSIPrestige14/2022-05-24T14:43:13Z nvme.img.fidx /dev/nvme0n1 --repository 192.168.2.6:MSIPrestige14

I received the following error:

Error: unable to create target file "/dev/nvme0n1" - File exists (os error 17)

Will someone please give me a hint as to what I am doing incorrectly?

Thank you!

 

[UdoB]

Error: unable to create target file "/dev/nvme0n1" - File exists (os error 17)

Hello,

while I am absolutely not sure if this a "normal" use case: man proxmox-backup-client tells me:

       proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot> <archive-name> <target> [OPTIONS]
       Restore backup repository.
...
       Optional parameters:
       --allow-existing-dirs <boolean>
              Do not fail if directories already exists.
...

If you're brave you might try that. Good luck

 

[dcsapak]

alternatively use '-' as target (it'll print the content to stdout), and pipe it where you want

 

[mrdmadev]

alternatively use '-' as target (it'll print the content to stdout), and pipe it where you want

Is that a dash? If so, are you suggesting:

proxmox-backup-client restore host/MSIPrestige14/2022-05-24T14:43:13Z nvme.img.fidx - --repository 192.168.2.6:MSIPrestige14 | /dev/nvme0n1 ?

 

[mrdmadev]

Hello,

while I am absolutely not sure if this a "normal" use case: man proxmox-backup-client tells me:

       proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot> <archive-name> <target> [OPTIONS]
       Restore backup repository.
...
       Optional parameters:
       --allow-existing-dirs <boolean>
              Do not fail if directories already exists.
...

If you're brave you might try that. Good luck

I'm having a hard time believing that what I am trying to do hasn't been tried yet. That's not comfortable at all.

 

[dcsapak]

Is that a dash? If so, are you suggesting:

yes, a dash, but the command is not completely correct, more like

proxmox-backup-client restore host/MSIPrestige14/2022-05-24T14:43:13Z nvme.img.fidx - --repository 192.168.2.6:MSIPrestige14 > /dev/nvme0n1