Using Proxmox Backup Server API's Backup and Restore endpoints

[rakeshn]

Hello,
I was reviewing the PBS API documentation here: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/api-viewer/index.html. While I am able to use the API for Management API endpoints like ping or version e.g. "https://my-pbs-server/api2/json/version to return {"data":{"release":"2","repoid":"blanked-out","version":"3.2"}}, I don't know how to get to the backup or restore API endpoints. I must be missing something basic or obvious. Thanks in advance for any pointers folks may have who have used these APIs.

Thanks,
Rakesh

 

[dcsapak]

you have to use the '/backup' path to upgrade the connection to http2 and then use the http2 api described
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/api-viewer/index.html#/backup
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/api-viewer/index.html#/backup/_upgrade_

 

[rakeshn]

Thanks Dominik. So to be clear to call the speedtest endpoint under Backup and Restore APIs, I would use the following endpoints respectively:

curl -H 'Authorization: PBSAPIToken=<username>@pam!<tokenname>:<token-secret-value>' "https://<dnsname>/backup/api2/json/speedtest"
curl -H 'Authorization: PBSAPIToken=<username>@pam!<tokenname>:<token-secret-value>' "https://<dnsname>/restore/api2/json/speedtest"

If not, please explain how I would call these endpoints.

 

[dcsapak]

no, i don't think you can do what you want with curl

you first have to establish a http2 connection via the upgrade header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2
and then you have to make another (http2) api call to the speedtest api

but if you want to do just that, you can use the proxmox-backup-client (that has a 'benchmark' command builtin)