[SOLVED] Just a simple question

[diaolin]

Do you have a command for reading the content of a index.json.blob?

I know that is visible through interface....

I don't mean "edit" but "read"


Tx, Diaolin

 

[dylanw]

Hi,
You would just have to restore it with:

proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot_type>/<id>/<time> index.json.blob index.json

 

[diaolin]

Tx

 

[Mirmanium]

And the restore can be done in a new VM (new ID) to avoid overwrite the original one?
I would like to test the recovery part without testing on a live VM for now.

Thank you,

 

[che]

And the restore can be done in a new VM (new ID) to avoid overwrite the original one?
I would like to test the recovery part without testing on a live VM for now.

Thank you,

You cannot specify a VMID for a "new" VM during the restore, as the PBS does not know and does not care about PVE VMIDs (it is the PVE host who is concerned about that).
The command provided by @dylanw does a file level restore of the index.json.blob to index.json.

So in order to do a restore of a PVE VM by yourself just using the proxmox-backup-client, you will probably have fetch the VM config from the backup first, create a new VM based on that config and then do the restore of the block devices.

I must admit I don't know the details here, so the best reference you might get is the PVE source code. This will show you how the proxmox-backup-client is called during restore.

 

[diaolin]

And the restore can be done in a new VM (new ID) to avoid overwrite the original one?
I would like to test the recovery part without testing on a live VM for now.

Thank you,

you should restore with the internal pve commands like

qmrestore <archive> <vmid> <options>
pct restore <vmid> <ostemplate>

This is the command

Diaolin

 

[diaolin]

In any case my question was about the opening of a single file from the PBS server
Diaolin

 

[Mirmanium]

In any case my question was about the opening of a single file from the PBS server
Diaolin

Yes, I agree. I just asked that because of an alternative way to open single file without replacing original VMID.

 

[diaolin]

Yes, I agree. I just asked that because of an alternative way to open single file without replacing original VMID.

If it's a VM and not container/host you can only restore the entire VM.
I repeat: this thread regards only the opening of a blob file, no restoration of "running files"