How to Restore Your Backups

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First, ensure that you have the encryption key file and the encryption file password ready to go. If you have forgotten either, please check your onboarding email for the details.

To connect to the backup server repository, login with the following command. You will be prompted to enter your password.

proxmox-backup-client login --repository "FirstName_LastName@pbs@[Hostname or IP]:[Datatore Name]

Once you have successfully logged in, run the following command to see your backup snapshots.

proxmox-backup-client snapshot list

To restore your selected files you can use the following command

proxmox-backup-client restore [host/example/2026-01-30T23:06:35Z] index.json --repository "" --keyfile /path/to/keyfile