Does Proxmox-Backup-Client restore an already archived virtual machine

[vitconsome]

I use the following command to back up a virtual machine from VPE to PBS

proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository 'root@pam@192.168.1.202:PBS-202' --backup-id 100

but now I cannot restore that virtual machine.

 

[Lukas Wagner]

Hello,

the proxmox-backup-client tool is not the right tool for backing up VMs/CTs. vzdump [1] is the command you are looking for. However there is no need to use the command line tool, the functionality is exposed to the GUI as well. For that to work, you need to add your Proxmox Backup Server instance as a Storage to your Proxmox VE system.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/vzdump.1.html