VM-wise backup export to an external drive from PBS

[bsinha]

Our current proxmox setup is running 20 VMs. Every day these VMs are backed up in a datastore of a Proxmox backup server (PBS).

Now we have come up with a situation where we need to export the backup sets of 2 selective VMs from the PBS and export these into an external hard drive. So that we can import these 2 backups into another PBS in the future.

Does PBS provide this solution?

 

[Dunuin]

You could create a second datastore on that external HDD and then use the local sync job with filtering to only sync specific VMs to that datastore.
Same on the other PBS to sync it again.

 

[Dunuin]

But there is no export as individual backup archives like VZDump does.

And there is no datastore import feature yet. You will have to manually mount that external HDD via fstab/systemd/autofs and then edit the /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg to add that mountpoint as a datastore.