can i add vm-name into proxmox backup file name or pbs task/datastore contents ?

[RolandK]

i'm curious why proxmox only stores vm id and timestamp in the backup filename (also in pbs), but not the vm name.

this makes things intransparent, because i need extra steps to map a name to a "binary blob" i cannot easily derive the vm name from, especially when the backup is getting archived and later restored from the archive.

is there a way to make the vm-name appear in the pbs dashboard/datastore and/or is there a way to encode the vm name in the vzdump backup filename?

 

[oversite]

i'm curious why proxmox only stores vm id and timestamp in the backup filename (also in pbs), but not the vm name.

this makes things intransparent, because i need extra steps to map a name to a "binary blob" i cannot easily derive the vm name from, especially when the backup is getting archived and later restored from the archive.

is there a way to make the vm-name appear in the pbs dashboard/datastore and/or is there a way to encode the vm name in the vzdump backup filename?

with proxmox-backup-client you can name them using option --backup-id
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/naming-backups-from-proxmox-backup-client.76471/

 

[Petr Konderla]

Hi, don't want create new thread, so I'll add it here - it's related and someone might find it usefull...

This script executed in /mnt/datastore/datastorename/vm will name backups based on VM names. Obviously needs to be run manually (ssh/teminal), everytime new VM exist and back up.

#!/bin/bash

for i in `ls -d ./*/*/` ; do dd if=$i/qemu-server.conf.blob bs=1 skip=12 2>/dev/null | zstdcat | grep name > $i/../notes ; d
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