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Yeah, I will need to check out a similar setup, but in the US.

Yes, I have that locally, but I still would like to have a cloud backup (obviously in another location)

Looks like I am having the same issues - did you find a resolution?

Thanks, fstrim results finally kicked in and I was able to reduce the backups sizes quite a bit. Thanks!

Do you use two disks for a VM! One for the OS and one for data or do you have only one?

Hi everyone, I am doing local backups via PBS, but I also create vzdump backups that I back up to OneDrive via restic. I have tried to optimize backup sizes with cleaning up docker, fstrim as well as activating "ssd" and "discard" for the respective VMs. I have multiple VMs that confuse me...

@Johannes S - Thanks so much!

Trying to save some power with not having the backup server running 24/7 Can you share how this setup works exactly? Do you run that PBS yourself on a VPS?

Thanks - will check it out. Maybe I will do restic instead of rclone to OneDrive then. Another change in approach, probalby the 5th in 3 days, lol

Looks like snapshots is the main differentiating factor between restic and rclone

Thanks for the very thorough answer. I think I will go for a split approach: Local backups with PBS - one directly on my homelab server with a sync to the PBS backup server twice a week. This way I have incremental backups. Remote backups with vzdump that will be uploaded to OneDrive. In case...

Hi, I have not found a solution online for this. I would like to backup my PBS backups to OneDrive and be able to only upload incremental changes just as PBS does it. The execution does not seem to be a problem, I can upload the files (incl. chunks) to OneDrive via rclone. I woud like to do that...

I will just give PBS a portion of an NVMe on my server instead of USB. Just to make sure I get the steps right 1. Delete the current datastore, but do not delete the data (kind of obvious) 2. Create folder on the new drive (see above) 3. Create new datastore linked to the folder in 2. 4. Use...

Thanks for the feedback - Is it possible to just change the folder of a datastore in PBS (and switch it to an SSD), so that I can keep all my storage and backup jobs as-is? Would like to avoid to set up everything again from scratch. Is it possible to move the data as well or do I have to create...

Thanks for the feedback - I use HDDs on the TrueNAS server. Maybe will also need to live with the speed, until I am able to replace those HDDs with SDDs (at least for the PBS portion). Will try fio next!