Rsync of PBS datastore in USB disks.

[SOLTECSIS - Carles Munyoz]

Hello,
I have a PBS datastore located in the directory `/BACKUP/PBS` of my Proxmox PBS server.
If I rsync this directory in USB disks, is it possible to connect this rsync copy of the datastore to my PBS if I need it in the future?

If the answer is yes, how can I do it?

Thank you very much for your help.

 

[dcsapak]

yes, it should be possible, simply sync it back to a pbs instance (or mount it)
and point a new datastore to the path

no gui support for this though
(there are some plans for an 'import' 'export' feature, but no timeline yet)

 

[SOLTECSIS - Carles Munyoz]

Then the procedure for make the datastore in the USB disk available to PBS will be:
1. Mount the USB disk (for example, in /mnt/USB_DISK).
2. Create a new datastore using the next command: proxmox-backup-manager datastore create USB-DS /mnt/USB_DISK/PBS-VM
3. Access the datastore in the USB disk using PBS web interface.

Is it correct?

One doubt more, the command in stop 2 will detect that in the /mnt/USB_DISK/PBS-VM directory is already a PBS datastore and will not recreate it?

 

[dcsapak]

One doubt more, the command in stop 2 will detect that in the /mnt/USB_DISK/PBS-VM directory is already a PBS datastore and will not recreate it?

no actually for the moment you have to edit the file /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg manually

 

[SOLTECSIS - Carles Munyoz]

Ok, then by the moment, the correct procedure will be:

• Mount the USB disk (for example, in /mnt/USB_DISK).
• Create a new datastore manually modifying the file: /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg

datastore: USB_DISK
    path /mnt/USB_DISK/PBS

• Access the datastore in the USB disk using PBS web interface.

Correct ?

 

[dcsapak]

yes

 

[SOLTECSIS - Carles Munyoz]

Great, thank you very much for your help.