2 questions - deployment and backup vm's

[proxje]

HI
Maybe a stupid question (sorry for that) but I'm trying to understand how to configure it correctly.
I was using the backup functionality in Proxmox itself before, but I would like to use Proxmox Backup server to take advantages of its additional features.

Is it best practice to deploy the backup server to a new VM within Proxmox?
and how can I grant access to Proxmox to access all those VM's to backup then?

Thanks!

 

[Pifouney]

Is it a personnal conf?

Professional => Never use backing server on Virtual host.
Personnal => Yes you can. But you can too install it on physical pve node, they doesn't listen the same port.

"how can I grant access to Proxmox to access all those VM's to backup then?" Begun by a try, check, and try that you gonna enderstant while observing

 

[Johannes S]

It's recommended to use PBS on it's own dedicated server do reduce complexicty, dependencies and potential failures. In a professional context this is what I would do.
In my homelab budget I can't afford a dedicated server at the moment. For this reason I have two PBS vms which are backupping each other and the remaining vms/containers of the PVE cluster. These backups are synced to a third PBS instance on a vserver of a hosting provider.