Restore Image

[jbravo]

Hello,

I have the following spanshot:

# proxmox-backup-client snapshot list

│ host/account/2025-07-03T08:20:01Z │ 21.382 GiB │ catalog.pcat1 index.json root.pxar │

This snapshot was created with the following command:

proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/

Now, I need to restore the entire image, in another machine, can I restore it like this:

proxmox-backup-client restore host/account/2025-07-03T08:20:01Z root.pxar - > /dev/vda1

thank you,


Jose

 

[Chris]

Hi,

Now, I need to restore the entire image, in another machine, can I restore it like this:

proxmox-backup-client restore host/account/2025-07-03T08:20:01Z root.pxar - > /dev/vda1

no this won't work. You created a file level backup of the contents stored on a filesystem. So in order to restore them, you will have to mount the filesystem located on your /dev/vda1 first (or create one if there is none), and then restore the contents to the mountpoint location via proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot> <archive-name> <target>