[solved] VM Disk Backup browsable / partial restore of files or folders?

[Elleni]

Is it possible to browse and selectively restore files or folders from a vmdisk backup? I am asking as sometimes we would need to restore only some files or folders. Or would we need to restore / clone the whole vm, boot it and copy from there? If possible - would you mind point me to the right direction so I can learn how this would be done?

 

[che]

HI,
what you can do is map the image of the backed up VM disk to a loopback device and then mount a partition read-only on your local system. This gives you full read access to all the data, which than you can also copy. See this for an example on how to do this
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-mount-encrypted-backup.80354/post-355347
For container (pxar) backups you can use mount or the catalog to achieve interactive restores.

 

[Elleni]

Great. Thanks for your info.

 

[atec666]

hello, sorry but i did not understand the answer , how did you solve this ?
how can i restore only some files with PBS or PX 6.x ?

 

[Elleni]

I did not have the time to test yet. But it seems possible and there was a link provided with an example. Did you try?

 

[che]

hello, sorry but i did not understand the answer , how did you solve this ?
how can i restore only some files with PBS or PX 6.x ?

Hi,
how may I help you with this? What exactly is the problem you are facing? Is it a specific error you are facing or are you not familiar with loopback devices and how the proxmox-backup-client achieves this, ecc.?

 

[atec666]

Hi,
how may I help you with this? What exactly is the problem you are facing? Is it a specific error you are facing or are you not familiar with loopback devices and how the proxmox-backup-client achieves this, ecc.?

probably not skilled with loopback client ;-))