Backup with PBS can be exported

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franconovik

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Hello,
I am wondering if the backups created with PBS can be restored in another enviroment like VMshere, xen ?
PBS can do this ?
Can I get the backup and restore it in another environment ?
What should I do to be able to use my pbs backup to restore in another enviroment ?

Thanks
/Franco
 
I don't know an easy way to export backups from PBS. I can think of a couple not-easy ways.

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If you restored a backup from PBS onto a NAS datastore, then the virtual disks would all be written as qcows files.
Those files could then be directly imported into Xen. I think you'd have to figure out the VM config tho ...

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You can download the components of a backup from PBS GUI.
Datastore > Content tab > Expand out a backup. > Look at the components.
To the right of the filenames, you'll see a download link.
client.log.blob
drive-scsi0.img.fidx
index.json.blob
qemu-server.conf.blob

I don't know what to do with the files if you download them. Probly something with vzdump.
 
you can restore the contained data (raw image files for VMs, directory trees for LXC/host) and config files (in PVE format), but if you want to import those you will need to at least convert the configuration yourself.
 
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