Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <[email protected]> --- vzdump.adoc | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/vzdump.adoc b/vzdump.adoc index 0577a97..c6063ad 100644 --- a/vzdump.adoc +++ b/vzdump.adoc @@ -365,6 +365,30 @@ amount of data is required for initial operation, e.g. web servers - once the OS and necessary services are started, the VM is already operational, while the background task keeps copying seldomly used data. +Single File Restore +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The 'File Restore' button in the 'Backups' tab of the storage GUI can be used to +open a file browser directly on the data contained in a backup. This feature +is only available for backups on a Proxmox Backup Server. + +For containers, the first layer of the file tree shows all included 'pxar' +archives, which can be opened and browsed freely. For VMs, the first layer shows +contained drive images, which can be opened to reveal a list of supported +storage technologies found on the drive. In the most basic case, this will be an +entry called 'part', representing a partition table, containing entries for each +partition found on the drive. Note that for VMs, not all data might be +accessible (unsupported guest file systems, storage technologies, etc...). + +Files and directories can be downloaded using the 'Download' button, the latter +being compressed into a zip archive on the fly. + +To enable secure access to VM images, which might contain untrusted data, a +temporary VM (not visible as a guest) is started. This does not mean that data +downloaded from such an archive is inherently safe, but avoids exposing the +hypervisor system to danger. The VM will stop itself after a timeout, the entire +process happens transparently from a users point of view. + [[vzdump_configuration]] Configuration ------------- -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
