Trouble restoring LXC/CT from PBS

[linucksproxmox]

Due to a mistake on my part, I need to restore a LXC container from a backup. I have some snapshots in PBS and I know they work because in PBS I can browse files and restore from there. I tried through the UI from the stopped container, but it errored out stating that it can't find the disk file. I don't have the exact error message.

Then I ran

proxmox-backup-client snapshot list --repository 192.168.1.16:backup

to get the list of snapshots, and taking the snapshot I wanted to restore I ran

pct restore 303 192.168.1.16:backup/ct/303/2023-09-03T18:00:46Z -storage nvme1tb --unprivileged 1

This returns

recovering backed-up configuration from '192.168.1.16:backup/ct/303/2023-09-03T18:00:46Z'
unable to restore CT 303 - can't find file '192.168.1.16:backup/ct/303/2023-09-03T18:00:46Z'

Do I have the syntax wrong or what can I do to move forward?

 

[MarkusF]

Hello,

use the name/id you gave the backup-server in the pve storage configuration instead of the ip address with pct.

 

[linucksproxmox]

Thanks, that worked for me! I wasn't able to determine that from the documentation, but I changed from the IP address to the name of the backup target which in my case is "backup"