Load backups from PBS disk on PVE

[asdivneoaisn-1132213]

Hello!

I have a disk coming from my now disfunctional PBS server with the following file structure:

root@proxmox:/mnt/backup# tree vm .chunks | head -n 20
vm
└── 115
    ├── 2022-09-17T23:35:07Z
    │   ├── client.log.blob
    │   ├── drive-scsi0.img.fidx
    │   ├── drive-scsi1.img.fidx
    │   ├── drive-scsi2.img.fidx
    │   ├── index.json.blob
    │   └── qemu-server.conf.blob
    └── owner
.chunks
├── 0000
│   ├── 000002d314c7c270b0c931f3b6080a9aace8654cdb5a237786e59fa85d61324c
│   ├── 000015be6d096d4c64348ca41d56a94bc9d7c16c550f0660d96cdb24d866e5e1
│   ├── 00003429593b38485743b055b7c9ec29a6e339c116c5f2c5e05e800acb0d8aa6
│   ├── 00006b7d174c28319d714d42cb346af2a2a8a5745f9bd729358f71542451e20b
│   └── 0000aa6859df9e2fa1eb8184cbaf047d03ab12574f887ff8cb08ac739b8b71c9
├── 0001
│   ├── 0001655430dd4f157ca19d645f04f81802758fe3751a18fbdfeb96a12891e425
│   └── 0001b3d1a031f8528729d1412db38853f3676c8b91505c70778bc67f26f220e9

as you can see, I have mounted this disk on /mnt/backup on my proxmox server (via normal UNIX /mnt/backup). Now I want to actually use the disk and restore VM data from it. Simply adding a directory storage for /mnt/backup does not lead to my backups showing up. Is there a way without creating a virtual PBS mashine on my PVE?

 

[fiona]

Hi,
you do need a PBS instance to be able to restore the guests. You could create a PBS VM, make the datastore available in there and then add the PBS storage from that virtual server to the host.