How can I check the integrity of my backups ?

Marc Ballat

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Dec 28, 2015
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Hi,

I would like to perform two automated tests on the backups taken every night of my containers and VMs :
- untar
- start

The backups are transferred every night to a machine that runs Debian 10. I started writing a bash script that takes the latest backup for a given CT/VM ID and untars it. I am now stumbling against the following issue : can I start a container created by Proxmox under a plain Debian 10 ? Ideally, I would like to recreate the .conf file on the fly rather than copy it from the proxmox host to the Debian machine and update it to match the local configuration.

I already did some tests with a .conf file that only holds the rootfs: entry but I get an error message that says :
utils - utils.c:safe mount:1179 -No such file or directory - Failed to mount /dev/pts4 onto /dev/console

Is there a guide on migrating containers and VMs to plain linux (who would want that after having used Proxmox ;-) ?

Thanks in advance.

Marc
 
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