[SOLVED] scheduled automatic restore via qmrestore?

[fips]

Hey Guys,

I am thinking about a scheduled (via Cron?) automatic restore of VMs which have been backed up via PBS.
My first attempt was via CLI but I can set the date via variable but not the timestamp as wildcard.

qmrestore my.pbs:backup/vm/710/2025-04-18* 810 -storage HDD_36T
unable to parse PBS volume name 'backup/vm/710/2025-04-18*'

Any idea how I can specify the restore file?

Happy easter to everyone

 

[gfngfn256]

Not sure with a wildcard what you expect ..... (which one to restore etc.)

But according to the manpage it reads standard input:

<archive>: <string>
The backup file. You can pass - to read from standard input.

So you probably need to script it something like this:

#!/bin/bash
bkuparchive=$(ls path/to/pbs/2025-04-18*)
qmrestore my.pbs:backup$bkuparchive 810 -storage HDD_36T

I've used the ls command (as for a mounted storage) but you could probably equally use pvesm list <pbs-storage> --vmid <vmid> or proxmox-backup-client snapshot list [group] with parsing.

Disclaimer: Never done anything like this (nor needed to!) & haven't tested this either.

Good luck.

 

[fips]

hmm well this would work somehow if the pbs are mounted, but out of the box the pbs storage isn't.
Well I don't want to harm the backup infrastructure doing some hacky stuff..

 

[leesteken]

hmm well this would work somehow if the pbs are mounted, but out of the box the pbs storage isn't.

As @gfngfn256 mentioned, you can parse the output of pvesm list my.pbs --vmid 810 with AWK or other Linux command line tools (which are documented and explained on the internet).

 

[gfngfn256]

The exact reason I added the other options - as leesteken has pointed out.

 

[fips]

Thanks to your support I could get it done:
if once someone need a hint

DATE=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d' -d "1 day ago")
FILEall=$(pvesm list my.pbs --vmid 810 | grep ${DATE})
FILE=$(echo ${FILEall} | awk '{print $1}')
qmrestore ${FILE}  810 -storage HDD_36T

 

[gfngfn256]

FILEall=$(pvesm list my.pbs --vmid 810 | grep ${DATE})
FILE=$(echo ${FILEall} | awk '{print $1}')

One line:

FILE=$(pvesm list my.pbs --vmid 810 | grep ${DATE} | awk '{print $1}')

Anyway, happy you got it working.

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