[SOLVED] PBS VM backup to dumpfile

[Josef Grassler]

Hello,
im evaluating PBS for production and am using it for some non business critical VMs / PM hosts
Loving it, great work!

My question:
We do have an offline/offsite backup.
I know this can or should be a PBS remote at some time, but for now its simply a safe storage with vm dumps.

Is there a way to create vzdumps from incremental backups directly when using PBS?

For my (offiste)backup routine right now i make dumps on the PM hosts and copy them to the backup storage.

The dream would be to go to PBS, insert encryption key, dump VMs and copy to storage.
So kind of qmrestore from PBS into vzdump.
Does this functionality exist?

edit: im aware that this functionality is not needed if one trusts PBS .

Tanks, great work and happy holidays!

 

[che]

Hello,
im evaluating PBS for production and am using it for some non business critical VMs / PM hosts
Loving it, great work!

My question:
We do have an offline/offsite backup.
I know this can or should be a PBS remote at some time, but for now its simply a safe storage with vm dumps.

Is there a way to create vzdumps from incremental backups directly when using PBS?

For my (offiste)backup routine right now i make dumps on the PM hosts and copy them to the backup storage.

The dream would be to go to PBS, insert encryption key, dump VMs and copy to storage.
So kind of qmrestore from PBS into vzdump.
Does this functionality exist?

edit: im aware that this functionality is not needed if one trusts PBS .

Tanks, great work and happy holidays!

Hi, you could do a proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot> <archive-name> <target> with <target> being -, which will write to stdout. From there you can then pipe it to whatever toolchain you have in mind. But note, by this you will loose encryption...

 

[Josef Grassler]

Hi, you could do a proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot> <archive-name> <target> with <target> being -, which will write to stdout. From there you can then pipe it to whatever toolchain you have in mind. But note, by this you will loose encryption...

awesome! thanks, will try

 

[che]

awesome! thanks, will try

Don't forget that you probably also want/need to restore the fw.conf.blob and qemu-server.conf.blob present in the backup, but stored separately from the disk images.

 

[Josef Grassler]

Don't forget that you probably also want/need to restore the fw.conf.blob and qemu-server.conf.blob present in the backup, but stored separately from the disk images.

thanks, noted!