diff --git a/PVE/API2/Storage/Scan.pm b/PVE/API2/Storage/Scan.pm
index bd6c264..76fbd81 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/Storage/Scan.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/Storage/Scan.pm
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
 	    { method => 'iscsi' },
 	    { method => 'lvm' },
 	    { method => 'nfs' },
+	    { method => 'pbs' },
 	    { method => 'usb' },
 	    { method => 'zfs' },
 	];
@@ -174,6 +175,71 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
 	return $data;
     }});
 
+__PACKAGE__->register_method({
+    name => 'pbsscan',
+    path => 'pbs',
+    method => 'GET',
+    description => "Scan remote Proxmox Backup Server.",
+    protected => 1,
+    proxyto => "node",
+    permissions => {
+	check => ['perm', '/storage', ['Datastore.Allocate']],
+    },
+    parameters => {
+	additionalProperties => 0,
+	properties => {
+	    node => get_standard_option('pve-node'),
+	    server => {
+		description => "The server address (name or IP).",
+		type => 'string', format => 'pve-storage-server',
+	    },
+	    username => {
+		description => "User-name or API token-ID.",
+		type => 'string',
+	    },
+	    password => {
+		description => "User password or API token secret.",
+		type => 'string',
+	    },
+	    fingerprint => get_standard_option('fingerprint-sha256', {
+		optional => 1,
+	    }),
+	    port => {
+		description => "Optional port.",
+		type => 'integer',
+		minimum => 1,
+		maximum => 65535,
+		default => 8007,
+		optional => 1,
+	    },
+	},
+    },
+    returns => {
+	type => 'array',
+	items => {
+	    type => "object",
+	    properties => {
+		store => {
+		    description => "The datastore name.",
+		    type => 'string',
+		},
+		comment => {
+		    description => "Comment from server.",
+		    type => 'string',
+		    optional => 1,
+		},
+	    },
+	},
+    },
+    code => sub {
+	my ($param) = @_;
+
+	my $password = delete $param->{password};
+
+	return PVE::Storage::PBSPlugin::scan_datastores($param, $password);
+    }
+});
+
 # Note: GlusterFS currently does not have an equivalent of showmount.
 # As workaround, we simply use nfs showmount.
 # see http://www.gluster.org/category/volumes/
diff --git a/PVE/CLI/pvesm.pm b/PVE/CLI/pvesm.pm
index 8f7740e..3594774 100755
--- a/PVE/CLI/pvesm.pm
+++ b/PVE/CLI/pvesm.pm
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ sub param_mapping {
     my $mapping = {
 	'cifsscan' => [ $password_map ],
 	'cifs' => [ $password_map ],
+	'pbs' => [ $password_map ],
 	'create' => [ $password_map, $enc_key_map ],
 	'update' => [ $password_map, $enc_key_map ],
     };
@@ -506,6 +507,11 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method ({
 	};
     }});
 
+my $print_api_result = sub {
+    my ($data, $schema, $options) = @_;
+    PVE::CLIFormatter::print_api_result($data, $schema, undef, $options);
+};
+
 our $cmddef = {
     add => [ "PVE::API2::Storage::Config", 'create', ['type', 'storage'] ],
     set => [ "PVE::API2::Storage::Config", 'update', ['storage'] ],
@@ -577,6 +583,14 @@ our $cmddef = {
 		printf "$rec->{lv}\n";
 	    }
 	}],
+	pbs => [
+	    "PVE::API2::Storage::Scan",
+	    'pbsscan',
+	    ['server', 'username'],
+	    { node => $nodename },
+	    $print_api_result,
+	    $PVE::RESTHandler::standard_output_options,
+	],
 	zfs => [ "PVE::API2::Storage::Scan", 'zfsscan', [], { node => $nodename }, sub  {
 	    my $res = shift;