(Mass) Import/converting lxc-tar & qemu-vma into PBS storage?

[hvisage]

Good day,

I do have quite a bit of historical backups on NFS, and would've liked to do a mass import/conversion from those to the PBS server/service as we have switched to the PBS since and would like to remove the NFS storage.

As I don't see anything like that in the documentation and the forums, I was wondering if anybody else did something similar and pointers as to how to do it?

 

[dylanw]

Unfortunately there's no easy way to convert the backup files to PBS as PBS uses an entirely different storage mechanism, in which data is stored in small separate chunks [1], whereas tar/VMA is a full archive of a single container/VM.

If you would like, you can still store the old backups on the backup servers as file archives [2], in order to potentially benefit from Proxmox Backup Server's deduplication.

[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/technical-overview.html
[2] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/terminology.html#file-archives-name-pxar

 

[hvisage]

Yeah, was (opportunistically) wondering asking, but after a month, as my limited space on the NFS for the vzdumps only really allowed for 3 dumps ( daily, weekly and a monthly) the PBS storage was already more "complete" compared to the vzdumps - just it would've been nice "pre-seed" it with chunks