/pbs-fast-restore

Restore your proxmox backup offline fast

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pbs-fast-restore

This tools enable you to recover single qcow2/raw from proxmox backup server fast.

How it works

Read chunks in parallel and write to target device in serial

How to use

  1. set up target device

    modprobe nbd
qemu-img create -f qcow2 victim.qcow2 100G
qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 victim.qcow2 --discard=unmap --detect-zeroes=unmap --aio=io_uring

  2. run

    ./pbsfastrestore -src /mnt/datastore/backup/pbs/dev/vm/123/2023-12-31T19:00:06Z/drive-scsi4.img.fidx -dest /dev/nbd0 -chunks /mnt/datastore/backup/pbs/dev/.chunks/ -workers 8