Error: open file catalog.pcat1.didx failed - not found

[NathanD]

Hi all,

At this moment we are running Proxmox Backup Server 0.9-0 BETA. Making backups is going well, but see what's in the backup gives an error.

# proxmox-backup-client snapshots --repository office@pbs@172.24.254.89:backups
│ vm/102/2020-10-05T11:05:01Z │ 21474837226 │ client.log drive-scsi0.img index.json qemu-server.conf │
├─────────────────────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ vm/105/2020-10-02T08:57:02Z │ 34359739110 │ drive-scsi0.img index.json qemu-server.conf

# proxmox-backup-client catalog dump vm/102/2020-10-05T11:05:01Z --repository office@pbs@172.24.254.89:backups
Error: open file "/backups/vm/102/2020-10-05T11:05:01Z/catalog.pcat1.didx" failed - not found

We get this error on all snapshots. So on everyone it is missing. When I look at the vm directory on the backup server, I see files, but not the catalog.pcat1.didx file:

vm/102:
client.log.blob
drive-scsi0.img.fidx
index.json.blob
qemu-server.conf.blob

vm/105:
drive-scsi0.img.fidx
index.json.blob
qemu-server.conf.blob

The server is running on a clean Debian 10 (buster) install with PBS manualy installed as mentioned in the documentation. The filesystem is running on XFS.

Any ideas?

 

[fabian]

there are no catalog files for fixed index (VM) backups..

 

[NathanD]

Okay, but then? You can't see what's in the backup? Also interactive restore isn`t working because that:

# proxmox-backup-client catalog shell vm/102/2020-10-05T11:05:01Z root.pxar --repository office@pbs@172.24.254.89:backups
Error: open file "/backups/vm/102/2020-10-05T11:05:01Z/root.pxar.didx" failed - not found

So to be short: how do I restore a backuped VM?

 

[fabian]

the backup happens on a block level in that case, so there is no file information available. access as regular file system is work-in-progress - see other threads here in the forum and the devel list (basically two approaches: map the backup archive into a VM, so that access happens via the guest kernel/OS/tools, or map via the client limited to what standard linux tooling understands)

 

[fabian]

restore happens via qm restore, or more generally speaking, proxmox-backup-client restore. both restore the full VM or full disk images, not individual files.

 

[Securityman]

it dos´nt work

 

[fabian]

it dos´nt work

what is 'it'?