[SOLVED] PBS "export" backed up VMs to zst ?

[mokaz]

Hi all,

1st, sorry for my lack of knowledge on PBS, just setup a node, doing backups testings etc. So far so good =)
I've understood the "datastores", "name spaces" etc.. I've also gathered that backups are stored on "chunks" on the file system.

A quick question though, is there a way to "export" a given VM backup as a big .zst file? I've been used to the PVE backups and sometimes I thought it's been handy to just copy a VM as a zst on a restored or different PVE node and restore from a local repo etc..

Let me know,
thanks,
m.

 

[Dunuin]

No, thats not possible right now. But you don't have to copy a backup file, you could just add your PBS to multiple PVE nodes and then directly restore that VM from PBS to that node.

 

[mokaz]

Hi there, thanks a lot for the update. My issue is somewhat about potential security gateways VMs that are on remote nodes and if these goes down so does their protected networks as well as PBS reachability.. Aynways, I'll check out what I'll do, perhaps play around with "remotes" as well to see what type of resilient architecture I could build.. In whole honesty, backing up is never really a problem, restoring is almost always a different story =)