Transfer backups NFS<>PBS

[n1kt0]

Good day

How to transfer backups ( NFS share) to the pbs?
How to transfer backups from pbs to NFS share?

Thank you.

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[Dunuin]

Why do you want to transfer them in the first place?
Additional backup of your backups?
Migration to a new server?
Because outside of a running PBS server the backups are quite useless.

 

[n1kt0]

Good day

1. Backup of critical VMs (for yourself)
2. Transferring old copies from NSF share to PBS
3. Transfer of some VMs to contractors for testing updates (the contractor asks to transfer in one file)

Thank you.

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[n1kt0]

Good day

Sorry, the third point is incorrect.
The contractor asks for a copy on FTP share in one file.

Thank you.

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[Dunuin]

That doesn't work with PBS. You can only backup your complete datastore using NFS, so only all backups of all VMs at the same time. And this backup is totally useless on its own if you send to to contractors because to be able to restore a VM from it you need to setup a new PBS server and import the complete datastore.
If you want a additional backup of specific VMs or send a backup of a VM to someone so that he could use that to restore a copy of that VM you should create additional Vzdump backups (for example a NFS share as a Vzdump storage).

 

[n1kt0]

2_Dunuin > Thanks.

I hope this functionality will be implemented.

Thank you.

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[Dunuin]

2_Dunuin > Thanks.

I hope this functionality will be implemented.

Thank you.

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Ystävällisin terveisin, n1kt0

I don't think it will. Look like PBS works. You can only achieve such good efficiency because PBS will chop each VM into into thousands of small chucks and these chunks then get deduplicated so multiple VMs or backups will reuse the same chunks.