[SOLVED] vzdump hook script and PBS

[bockhold]

Hello everybody,

is there a way inside a vzdump hook script (written in Bash) to recognize that the backup target is a Proxmox Backup Server?

Currently I automatically backup to a local storage and have a hook script defined in /etc/vzdump.conf via "script: ..." which copies the backup files via SSH to another machine. This copying is not necessary with a (remote) PBS, of course. For a testing period I would like to have both backup mechanisms in parallel therefore disabling the hook script totally is no good option currently.

Thanks!

 

[Stefan_R]

You could use the provided environment variables to distinguish, e.g.:

* $STOREID: destination storage name, match on this to detect a PBS target
* $TARGET (e.g. "vm/115/2021-05-18T14:25:32Z"): PBS targets will be in format "vm/vmid/timestamp", regular backups will have a valid filesystem path

 

[bockhold]

Thank you very much, @Stefan_R , I tried something along

[...]
local tarfile="${TARGET}"
[...]
if [ -f "${tarfile}" ]; then
    scp ...
fi
[...]

now and it works as expected! Great!