Backup files

[joaovitorIT]

Good morning,
I have a PBS backing up a PVE. I would like to know where PBS records the backup files. Because I want to take the files to backup on a server outside my structure. I will make the backup on an sftp medium.

Thanks.

 

[sw-omit]

AFAIK there is no "one file" per backup, PBS stores all it's data in chunks that are shared between backups and times, and only removed again once no one backup/version (snapshot) uses that chunk of data.
So you'd probably have to sync ALL the chunks as well as the snapshots and the like to have it usable by a different PBS-system, or just set up sync jobs to a different PBS installation.

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/technical-overview.html
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/managing-remotes.html

 

[tcabernoch]

Instead of PBS, you could write your backup that you wish to transfer to a NAS ... old-skool PVE backups.
That puts the files somewhere you can get em.
You can move em around after that.

Edit: Doesn't look like that came through well. Let me try again.
If you want access to the backup files themselves, so that you can transfer them, don't use PBS.

Instead, setup an NFS datastore. (Datacenter node > Storage > Add > NFS)
Configure your backup jobs to write to the NFS datastore. (Not PBS.)

If you configure backups this way, writing to an NFS mount, then you will have access to the backup files themselves.
A cron job on the NFS server could then upload them via SFTP to your remote location.

No PBS involved at all.

 

[joaovitorIT]

Today I don't have a PBS in a remote location, I just have an sftp. Is it possible to copy these backups that are in the local pbs to this sftp storage?