PBS export backup and stored on an external storage

[GraphiqueXpert]

Hello,
here is my problem:

I use a PBS for my incremental backup of my PVE.
I would like my vm backups ( example vm 100 and 101 ) to be stored on an external storage ( NAS, CLOUD S3/Backcblaze, external hdd etc ) without using another PBS.

That my VMs are really stored in a folder and that I can restore them one by one or that I can import them at my will.

I saw that the backup files were stored in a .chunk but I don't know how to process them.

Sorry for my poor english.

 

[dcsapak]

the integrated methods are using either tape backup, or sync
you could use the pbs-client to 'restore' the disk images to a target directory, but that will not be deduplicated and the import would mean you have to do a 'backup' again

what you could do is to setup 'localhost' as a remote and a datastore on a e.g. usb that you mount/unmount and sync it to that datastore