Restoring Pbs-Vm image to ISO Image

[BrixiaITArchitect]

As title i would like to export backups from pbs to ISO images so that the vm's i created can get installed on a physical device without the need of a proxmox enviroment, is there any direct way or i have to go through some convert process like this one ?
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/convert-vm-iso
i have looked in many sites and many threads but seems like no one wants to go back from VM to Pshysical and i sadly have to do it following a customer request.
Sorry if it's the wrong section but i couldnt really find an appropriate one.

 

[dcsapak]

when restoring on the command line, you get .img files which are the raw disk images. these can be copied to any harddisk with tools like 'dd'

 

[BrixiaITArchitect]

I always restore from remote pbs to my remote Pve using GUI, if i wanted to look for the .img files on either pbs or pve in what folder should i search? i've found some .img.fidx into pbs unde /home/proxmox/vm related to the vm's but cant seem to find any on pve, and yet, no having phisical acces to the machine i cannot simply plug a disk into it, no way i can download the .img straight from pbs to a workstation and work my way from there to export it into a fresh phys machine?

 

[dcsapak]

I always restore from remote pbs to my remote Pve using GUI, if i wanted to look for the .img files on either pbs or pve in what folder should i search? i've found some .img.fidx into pbs unde /home/proxmox/vm related to the vm's but cant seem to find any on pve, and yet, no having phisical acces to the machine i cannot simply plug a disk into it, no way i can download the .img straight from pbs to a workstation and work my way from there to export it into a fresh phys machine?

since the backups are not stored that way (they are chunked and deduplicated) there is no single file on the pbs for each img that you can use (the img.fidx is the index that references the chunks)
there are two possibilities to get the .img files:

1. use the webui (only for unencrypted backups)
you can download the .img file from the pbs webui (the server reassembles it on the fly)

2. use the proxmox-backup-client to restore the img files
on any machine that has access to the pbs over the network you can run

proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot> <file> <target>

see https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html for more details

 

[jesusdleguiza]

since the backups are not stored that way (they are chunked and deduplicated) there is no single file on the pbs for each img that you can use (the img.fidx is the index that references the chunks)
there are two possibilities to get the .img files:

1. use the webui (only for unencrypted backups)
you can download the .img file from the pbs webui (the server reassembles it on the fly)

2. use the proxmox-backup-client to restore the img files
on any machine that has access to the pbs over the network you can run

proxmox-backup-client restore <snapshot> <file> <target>

see https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html for more details

Hi,
in Backup Server 3.2-7
where is ..
1. use the webui (only for unencrypted backups)
you can download the .img file from the pbs webui (the server reassembles it on the fly)

regards

 

[dcsapak]

where is ..
1. use the webui (only for unencrypted backups)
you can download the .img file from the pbs webui (the server reassembles it on the fly)

in the content view of a datastore, there is a 'download' button on the img.fidx files

 

[jesusdleguiza]

in the content view of a datastore, there is a 'download' button on the img.fidx files

Thanks you, then is just necessary up new vm with that Img? But need setup conf for that vm?

 

[dcsapak]

in the same view, you should be able to download the conf (.blob) file and download it

 

[jesusdleguiza]

Where should I insert that configuration file then?

 

[dcsapak]

if you want to restore a vm completly on a pve, i'd recommend using the pve side api/webui instead ot trying to manually restore from config and disk image

but on pve the configs are found in /etc/pve/nodes/NODENAME/qemu-server and /etc/pve/nodes/NODENAME/lxc for vms and containers respectively