Just getting started with VB and purchased a Commercial license for a single ESXi host. I was able to muddle through setting it up and backing up using Cron to a Backblaze B2. I think it’s working (I’m getting sucessful email reports)
But, I need to test this to be able to sleep at night. I want to add the remote B2 repo to my workstation (using Duplicacy?) and do a test restore and make sure I can successfully boot up the backed up VMs. I tried to do this but I am getting stuck. Is this the right command to set up the local directory?
@gchen Thank you, those links were helpful. I was able to successfully restore 2 complete backups from B2 to a fresh machine and was able to boot both of them in VMware. Great! I didn’t know about the Web GUI, playing with that now. It looks very nice! But, for now I prefer to stick with the CLI.
One followup question: With the restore command, is it correct that you cannot specify an id to restore? E.g. I have set up a storage with e.g. init esx01 b2://BUCKET01 and can list all my VMs using duplicacy list -a but if I want to restore a particular snapshot, I have to switch to a different directory, initialize again specifying the specific VM id e.g. init vm-winsrv-01@esx01, and only then will I be able to restore?
Just seems a bit odd that restore would not accept an -id parameter, so I am asking. Thanks!