Possibility to move local pve backups to pbs

0zw00d

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Hello together,
I#m searching for a solution to move my local PVE Backups to PBS.
Is that possible in any way?
I did not found a solution in the PVE or PBS Docs.

Any Ideas are welcome.
Best regards

0zw00d
 
Hello together,
I#m searching for a solution to move my local PVE Backups to PBS.
Is that possible in any way?
I did not found a solution in the PVE or PBS Docs.

Any Ideas are welcome.
Best regards

0zw00d

afaik: your local backups are vzdump backups dont think you can move them to the pbs, as the pbs backups are totally different to vzdump. Youll need to redo a full backup. You could move the old backups via scp to the pbs, but they wont get integrated into the ui or backup/restore wizards.
 
Hello together,
I#m searching for a solution to move my local PVE Backups to PBS.
Is that possible in any way?
I did not found a solution in the PVE or PBS Docs.

Any Ideas are welcome.
Best regards

0zw00d
Hi,
while it is not possible to directly import vma based backups into PBS, what you can do is restore the backup to a VM and back it up to PBS again. Another solution would be to perform a filesystem based backup of your vma backups to PBS, then when needed for restore, restore the vma backups to a local storage and finally restore from vma backup. This can be done via the proxmox-backup-client cli, see https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html

Also, there are some patches on the mailing list regarding this, see https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pbs-devel/2023-September/006760.html