restoring from a .pxar archive

[David Thistlethwaite]

The PBS manual talks about <archive>.pxar archive as if its a file. I cannot find such files so must assume that the <archive>.pxar 'archive' is a collection of chunks created within the destination datastore that the pxar command line tool creates when backing up filesystem data.

Can anyone tell me the syntax of how to refer then list and ultimately extract/restore from an <archive>.pxar datastore ?

How does pxar list <archive>.pxar know where to look for the <archive>.pxar information to list ?

Thanks

 

[dietmar]

PBS stores pxar files splited into chunks at the datastore.

You can use the proxmox-backup-client tool to restore data:

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#restoring-data

 

[David Thistlethwaite]

PBS stores pxar files splited into chunks at the datastore.

You can use the proxmox-backup-client tool to restore data:

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#restoring-data

Thanks, I am restoring using the proxmox-backup-client, does pxar command work and how about the fuse mount option(s) >

 

[David Thistlethwaite]

PBS stores pxar files splited into chunks at the datastore.

You can use the proxmox-backup-client tool to restore data:

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#restoring-data

Does the pxar list/mount etc work, as it seems very useful.

Thanks

 

[fabian]

pxar is a file/archive format, but with PBS we never store it directly, we always upload it on the fly to the PBS server while generating it. on the PBS side it gets stored as chunks + a .didx index file, like a raw image file would be stored as chunks + a .fidx index file. you can get/download the full pxar file from the PBS server, and then use the 'pxar' binary to access it. but the PBS client offers a nicer interface with more features (it also doesn't persist the full pxar file on-disk, it just keeps some parts in memory to access the full content as requested)