Change ownership of backups

[egrueda]

Hi! I have 2 different users in the same PBS server.
Now "user2" is no more, so I want "user1" to have access to all backups created by "user2"
How can I "move" all backups from user2 to user1?
Thanks

 

[dcsapak]

there is currently no way to mass reassign backup owners, but you'd have to do it one by one for each backup group, or you use the cli/api to script it
(e.g. with 'proxmox-backup-client change-owner' )

 

[egrueda]

Thanks for you help, Dominik, I'll try to script it.
I see command "proxmox-backup-client list" exports user when json output is selected, so I'll use that to filter by owner.
Bet regards

 

[rwithd]

Thanks for you help, Dominik, I'll try to script it.
I see command "proxmox-backup-client list" exports user when json output is selected, so I'll use that to filter by owner.
Bet regards

Any chance you could share that script if you made it?

 

[PP2000]

Hy everybody,

there is an bit "dangerous" way to do this over the console/ssh

Estimation:
VM with ID: 100, 101, 102
BackupSpace: myBackup
OldUser: proxBack1@pam
NewUser: proxBack2@pbs

The Backups for those VMs are stored in the following directory:

/mnt/datastorage/myBackup/vm/100
/mnt/datastorage/myBackup/vm/101
/mnt/datastorage/myBackup/vm/102

ct are in
/mnt/datastorage/myBackup/ct/{id}

server
/mnt/datastorage/myBackup/server

additional namespaces and there ct/vm/servers
/mnt/datastorage/myBackup/ns

Case 1: Change User only for VM100
01. cd /mnt/datastorage/myBackup/vm/100
02. sed -i.bak 's/proxBack1@pam/proxBack2@pbs/g' owner

Case 2: Change User in all VM's
01. cd /mnt/datastorage/myBackup/vm
02. find . -name "owner" -exec sed -i.bak 's/proxBack1@pam/proxBack2@pbs/g' {} \;

Case 3: Change User in all Backups
01. cd /mnt/datastorage/myBackup
02. find . -name "owner" -exec sed -i.bak 's/proxBack1@pam/proxBack2@pbs/g' {} \;

The owner of a Backup of a VM/CT/Server is written plain in the "owner" file in
each VM/CT/Server-Backup-Directory

sed -i.bak 's/proxBack1@pam/proxBack2@pbs/g' owner .. replaces the string "proxBack1@pam" with "proxBack2@pbs",
the parameter -i.bak .. automatically creates a backup of the "owner"-File called: owner.bak (for security reason!)

best regards

PP