transfer one vm's backups to another datastore

[Elleni]

What are the correct steps to transfer all backups of a vm from datastore a to datastore b?

 

[fabian]

there is no such "selective pull" feature (yet). you can do a pull (/sync) using a user or token that just has access to that one backup group (e.g., by changing the owner of the group - but that might prevent existing users/tokens that have access from accessing it).

 

[Elleni]

Thanks for the idea. Would it eventually be possible to do it in console, ex. by copying some content from a to b or will that not work?

 

[fabian]

yeah, but you'd need to parse the index files for each index in each snapshot of the group to get the list of chunks to copy (that is effectively what the 'pull'/'sync' feature does).

 

[Elleni]

Oh, I see - that doesn't sound easy to do. Thanks anyway

 

[fabian]

implementing a selective pull in proxmox-backup-manager (e.g. one that operates on a single backup group) should be doable post-release crunch though, the code is basically already there it just needs to be exposed in a sensible fashion..