Scripted export of latest Backup image file possible ?

[adoII]

We would like to regularly keep backups of Data outside of the Building. The full datastore including history of all Backups of all Machines does not fit on external disks and is too much for Internet syncing.

I would like to somehow export the latest image of each vm once a week to an external drive and take this drive offsite.

Any ideas how I can script something like that ? Are there some pbs Shell Commands I should take a look at ?

 

[fpausp]

Any ideas how I can script something like that ?

You could use vzdump and backup directly to a USB-Disk(s) Storage. How big are your backups?

 

[Cookiefamily]

another idea that crossed my mind:
you can use the proxmox-backup-client map functionality to mount disks from the backup. When you do this, you could dd them to a file. can be automated, but probably not the prettiest option

 

[adoII]

Thanks for your ideas so far. I will play a little with the map function and see if it is fast enough ....