[SOLVED] Restore a VM backup to a different PVE node?

[woland]

Is there a way to restore a VM backed up from one PVE node to a different node, when the backed up node goes down with a failure? I'm running PBS on a TrueNAS server.

 

[cheiss]

Sure. As you are running Proxmox Backup Server, you only need to connect to it on the other VE node.

From there, you can just select the backup storage in the web UI and restore the backup(s).

 

[woland]

Sure. As you are running Proxmox Backup Server, you only need to connect to it on the other VE node.

From there, you can just select the backup storage in the web UI and restore the backup(s).

But in the web UI I can only see backups belonging to existing VMs. Since I'm not using ceph, when a machine dies, the VM also disappears from the web UI, and thus there is no way to reference its backup for restore.

 

[cheiss]

But in the web UI I can only see backups belonging to existing VMs.

You can see all backups in the Proxmox VE UI; click on the backup storage in the left sidebar and then "Backups".

This will list all available snapshots, scoped by the configured datastore/namespace. Also make sure the API token has the correct permissions.

 

[woland]

You can see all backups in the Proxmox VE UI; click on the backup storage in the left sidebar and then "Backups".

This will list all available snapshots, scoped by the configured datastore/namespace. Also make sure the API token has the correct permissions.

You are perfectly right! I didn't check there.
Since I also use different backup user tokens on the various PVE nodes, I may also have to change owner in PBS for the various VM backups belonging to a different node.

Thanks!

 

[cheiss]

Great!

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