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harmonyp

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When a VM is backed up in PBS it's given a comment for the machine hostname.

How can I search through all backups filtering certain hostnames. I have a backup but I do not know the VMID.

Not able to find where this data is stored.
 
harmonyp said:
When a VM is backed up in PBS it's given a comment for the machine hostname.

How can I search through all backups filtering certain hostnames. I have a backup but I do not know the VMID.

Not able to find where this data is stored.
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Hi,
the comment is part of the backups snapshot manifest and contained in the response when listing snapshots, e.g. by
Code: 
proxmox-backup-client snapshot list --output-format json
(you can also use json-pretty if you want a human readable output)
or via the corresponding api endpoint [0]. So you could create a small script filtering out snapshots using this.

The comment you will also see in the WebUI when listing snapshots of a datastore, so that might help to find the snapshot you are looking for as well, if you have access to the WebUI.

[0] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/api-viewer/index.html#/admin/datastore/{store}/snapshots
 
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