LXC backup storage path

[Karberg]

Hi,

I have tried to find a way through CLI or the API to find what the storage path is for a specific container.
But it seems it's not possible to get out.

My goal is to make an automation of stopping a specific container based on ID, restore latest backup & start the container again.
This is for some internal use where I need to rollback the container to a stage after usage.

 

[dcsapak]

This is for some internal use where I need to rollback the container to a stage after usage.

sounds more like the job for a snapshot, but a backup will work i guess

I have tried to find a way through CLI or the API to find what the storage path is for a specific container.

i guess you mean the volume id for backups of a specific guest?

if yes use something like this:

pvesh get /nodes/NODENAME/storage/STORAGEID/content -content backup -vmid VMID

to get all backup files for VMID on STORAGEID visible from NODENAME

 

[Karberg]

Backup works just fine.
It contains everything needed for a clean state of the app, doesn't take long for me to stop the container, rollback & start.

I ran

pct restore <vmID> <path & filename of the backup>

Manually just to see how it behaved.

the pvesh get command you wrote is perfect, it gives me the end thing i want in what i'm trying to do, thank you for that.

The STORAGEID, Is it possible to obtain that with a CLI command, based on VMID ?
The storage could change over time, and i want to remove params in my script.

The only params i want to set in my script would probably be VMID & NODENAME, since our IT automation (rundeck) have to SSH into the node.

 

[dcsapak]

The STORAGEID, Is it possible to obtain that with a CLI command, based on VMID ?

this is the storage where the backup is, not where the guest disks are
the api path to get those are under '/cluster/backup' if you do it automatically