change namespaces

[anonymous_user0414]

Hello,

is it possible to change the namespace designations i.e. the name afterwards?

Is it possible to move or reassign Vm backups or host backups to other namespaces?

This is a very important feature, if something changes in the structure, I had to delete and redo the backups until now....

Greetings

 

[Dunuin]

Is it possible to move or reassign Vm backups or host backups to other namespaces?

You can create a new target using localhost. With that you can locally sync backup snapshots between datastores or namespaces on the same PBS. Thats how I move my backup snapshots between namespaces.

 

[anonymous_user0414]

good point. i hope there will be a more intuitive solution in the future

 

[ioo]

Hi!

At some occasions i moved stuff around between namespaces like this

1. made sure there is no active backup/verify/etc jobs running
2. stopped pbs processess like 'systemctl stop proxmox-backup proxmox-backup-proxy'
3. at command line moved group directory to new namespace, like 'mv ns/ns-moraal-x570/vm/2131 ns/ns-moraal-x470/vm/2131'
4. started pbs processes, 'systemctl start proxmox-backup proxmox-backup-proxy'

To me it seems logical since actual data is in datastore's .chunks directory and datastore has namespace directory hiercary with fidx files etc separately.

This sequence of commands had served me well but if someone could comment is there better way of doing it or my procedure has risk/flaw/etc in it.


Best regards,

Imre

 

[AmateurProgrammer]

It would be nice to have a functionality for changing the namespace of backup group in the web ui