# Manage Proxmox Disaster Recovery

Backup failures and untested restores can cause long outages. This skill helps plan, create, monitor, and test Proxmox recovery workflows.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add dataknifeai/disaster-recovery
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: dataknifeai-disaster-recovery
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 8ccc919b70f4e28d77eea0fb42f306ec74bad460d61ff6e0e7f47b977054eca9
- Author: DataKnifeAI
- GitHub username: DataKnifeAI
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/DataKnifeAI/proxmox-ve-mcp/tree/main/.github/skills/disaster-recovery
- Ref: 7e9e368dc1a370f2040369ebcd0db06d90cb48e5
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands
- Quality score: 78
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/dataknifeai-disaster-recovery
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/dataknifeai-disaster-recovery/manifest

## Capabilities

- Create VM and container backup requests.
- Restore VMs and containers from existing backups.
- Create and restore VM and container snapshots.
- Monitor backup status, history, storage usage, and failure rates.
- Plan retention policies, RTO, RPO, and disaster recovery tests.
- Generate backup, audit, compliance, and recovery reports.

## Use Cases

- Run Daily Backup Operations: Review backup status, storage usage, failures, and retention needs across Proxmox VMs and containers.
- Test Recovery Procedures: Plan restore tests with snapshots, isolated environments, validation checks, and documented recovery results.
- Prepare Compliance Evidence: Generate backup reports that show coverage, retention, restore testing, and recovery objectives.

## Prompt Templates

### Review Backup Status

```
Show recent Proxmox VM and container backups. Include status, age, storage location, and any failed jobs that need attention.
```

### Plan Backup Coverage

```
Create a backup plan for these Proxmox workloads: [systems]. Include frequency, retention, storage targets, and verification steps.
```

### Test Recovery Procedure

```
Design a disaster recovery test for VM [id] and container [id]. Include snapshot use, restore checks, rollback criteria, and documentation.
```

### Audit Recovery Readiness

```
Audit our Proxmox recovery readiness for [environment]. Compare backup coverage, RTO, RPO, retention, storage capacity, and compliance reporting gaps.
```

## Limitations

- Requires access to compatible Proxmox backup and restore tools.
- Does not guarantee backup integrity without separate verification.
- Cannot replace organization-specific recovery governance or approvals.
- Restores and deletions can cause data loss if inputs are wrong.

## Best Practices

- Keep restore tests on a regular schedule and record actual recovery times.
- Verify backup integrity before relying on a backup for production recovery.
- Use retention rules that match business, storage, and compliance requirements.

## Anti Patterns

- Deleting old backups before confirming newer backups can restore critical services.
- Restoring directly into production without an approved rollback plan.
- Treating backup success messages as proof that applications are recoverable.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-05T09:30:43.848\+00:00
- Summary: All ten static findings are false positives from Markdown inline-code backticks around Proxmox tool names. I found no prompt injection, data exfiltration intent, or executable command path in SKILL.md.

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