I am trying to help someone who was abandoned by a provider. We have some of the VMs and the Proxmox installed (8.2.4 single node) but some VMs were destroyed. Unfortunatly, my knowledge of PX is pretty limited. My understanding so far:
Native backups would look like: `vzdump-qemu-{id}-{datestamp}.vma.zst`. Those were deleted with the `qm destroy`.
We found where, I believe, the Proxmox Backup Server was saving backups. It has folders named after missing instance IDs and a list of zip files: `2025-06-27T03_08_36Z-20250703T144411Z-1-001.zip`. Each zip has 4 blobs and the larger drive-scsi0.img.fidx.
Is there a command on the Proxmox server that I could use to read the zip or its content and restore VMs without access to the PBS?
The system has the `proxmox-backup-client`, but I'm not sure that's what I need.
Native backups would look like: `vzdump-qemu-{id}-{datestamp}.vma.zst`. Those were deleted with the `qm destroy`.
We found where, I believe, the Proxmox Backup Server was saving backups. It has folders named after missing instance IDs and a list of zip files: `2025-06-27T03_08_36Z-20250703T144411Z-1-001.zip`. Each zip has 4 blobs and the larger drive-scsi0.img.fidx.
Is there a command on the Proxmox server that I could use to read the zip or its content and restore VMs without access to the PBS?
The system has the `proxmox-backup-client`, but I'm not sure that's what I need.