Use the PBS Web Interface

You can use the Proxmox Backup Server web interface to review your hosted datastore and check whether backups are arriving correctly.

The exact actions available depend on the permissions assigned to your PBS user or API token. If an option is not visible, your account does not have that permission.

Log in

1. Open the PBS URL from your service details, for example https://pbs.example.com:8007.
2. Log in with your PBS username and password.
3. Select the correct realm. For most hosted PBS users this is pbs, unless your service details show a different realm.

Check datastore usage

Open your datastore in the left navigation to review current usage and available space.

Use this view to confirm:

• The datastore name matches your service details.
• Backup data is using the expected amount of storage.
• Your backups are not close to the booked storage limit.

If your product includes a namespace, select that namespace before reviewing backup contents.

Browse backup snapshots

Open the datastore content view to see backup groups and snapshots.

Common backup groups include:

Use the snapshot list to confirm the backup time, owner and backup size. A new backup should appear after your PVE or VirtFusion backup job completes.

Inspect files inside a backup

For supported backup types, PBS can browse files inside a snapshot.

1. Open your datastore content view.
2. Select the backup group and snapshot.
3. Open the file restore or file browser action if it is available.
4. Download the needed file or directory.

Use platform-level restore from Proxmox VE or VirtFusion when you need to restore a whole VM or disk.

Review task logs

PBS records tasks such as backup uploads, restores, verification jobs, pruning and garbage collection.

Use task logs to check:

• Whether a backup upload completed successfully.
• Which user or API token created a backup.
• Why a backup, restore or cleanup task failed.

Delete snapshots

If your account has delete permissions, you can remove old snapshots or whole backup groups from the datastore content view.

Only delete backups when you are sure they are no longer needed. Deletion is permanent after PBS cleanup jobs reclaim the data.

For normal operation, configure retention in Proxmox VE or VirtFusion instead of manually deleting snapshots in PBS.

Actions that are usually not available

Hosted datastore users usually cannot perform server-wide administrative tasks in PBS.

These actions are normally handled by the hosting platform:

• Creating or deleting datastores
• Changing datastore mount paths
• Managing global PBS certificates
• Changing server-wide network settings
• Creating global prune, sync or tape jobs
• Managing other customers or datastores

Best practices

• Check the PBS UI after the first backup from every host.
• Keep retention rules in the system that creates the backups.
• Do not share PBS credentials between unrelated platforms.
• Use separate namespaces or API tokens if you connect multiple platforms to the same datastore.
• Test restores regularly, not only after an outage.