Proxmox VE Restore

Proxmox VE Restore

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Restore a backup to a QEMU VM or LXC container on Proxmox VE

Restores a vzdump backup archive to a new VM or container. Set resourceType to vm (default) for QEMU or container for LXC. The archive parameter must be a valid volid, e.g. local: backup/vzdump-qemu-100-....vma.zst.

yaml
type: io.kestra.plugin.proxmox.backup.Restore

Restore a VM backup

yaml
id: restore_backup
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: restore
    type: io.kestra.plugin.proxmox.backup.Restore
    host: "{{ secret('PROXMOX_HOST') }}"
    username: "{{ secret('PROXMOX_USERNAME') }}"
    password: "{{ secret('PROXMOX_PASSWORD') }}"
    node: pve
    vmId: 200
    archive: "local:backup/vzdump-qemu-100-2024_01_01-00_00_00.vma.zst"
    storage: local-lvm
    resourceType: vm
Properties

Backup archive volid

Volume ID of the backup, e.g. local: backup/vzdump-....vma.zst.

Proxmox host

Hostname or IP address of the Proxmox VE node (no scheme, no port).

Proxmox node name

Name of the cluster node that scopes all API calls (e.g. pve, node1).

Target storage

Storage where the restored disk images are placed.

New VM or container ID to assign

Integer VMID to assign to the restored resource. Must be unique in the cluster.

Assets this task consumes as inputs or produces as outputs, for lineage tracking and the asset graph (Enterprise Edition). A flow declaring this property on a task is rejected in the open-source edition.

Definitions
assetFailureBehaviorstring
Possible Values
IGNOREFAILWARN

Asset failure behavior

Behavior applied to the task state when a declared asset fails to render, emit, or be persisted (e.g. a lock conflict): FAIL escalates it to FAILED, WARN (default) warns it if it would otherwise succeed, IGNORE leaves the state untouched.

enableAutobooleanstring

Whether to auto-register assets referenced dynamically at runtime that are not statically declared in inputs or outputs.

inputsarray

The assets consumed as inputs.

id*string
Min length1
typestring
outputs

The assets produced as outputs.

id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*object
descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150
id*string
Min length1
Max length150
type*string
Min length1

Custom asset type

descriptionstring
displayNamestring
metadataobject
Default{}
namespacestring
Min length1
Max length150

Password

Password for ticket-based authentication.

Default8006

API port

Defaults to 8006.

DefaultVM
Possible Values
VMCONTAINER

Resource type

Resource type: vm or container.

DefaultPT1H

Task timeout

Maximum time to wait for the restore operation to complete. Defaults to 1 hour.

API token ID

Full token identifier in the form user@realm!tokenname (e.g. root@pam!mytoken). Use together with tokenSecret.

API token secret

The UUID secret associated with the token ID.

Username

PAM or PVE user in the form user@realm (e.g. root@pam). Required when using ticket-based auth.

Defaulttrue

Verify SSL

Validate the server TLS certificate. Defaults to true; set to false only for trusted networks with self-signed Proxmox certificates.