Back up solutions

[Chieflewus]

I’ve currently got a proxmox backup server running on a small beelink nuc. My issue is it’s maxed at a 2 tb hard drive and I’m worried about running out of space at some point. I also have a share from my NAS that I run backups to as well.

I’ve got a NAS running bare metal in my lab and was thinking of attaching a share to my pve, running pbs as a vm and attaching the NAS share to it for storage so I can have more then just 2 tb’s of storage. Then I can get deduplication and the benefits of pbs still.

Any issues you can see with that or a better option? Ideally I’d like to run pbs bare metal but I don’t have the resources to do that other then what I’m doing now… on the nuc.

 

[Dunuin]

PBS needs IOPS performance so best case you want local SSD storage and not HDDs or NFS/SMB share adding latency.
PBS VM backed by NAS will work...just don't except it to be fast. Especially the GC will run a very long time.

 

[Chieflewus]

PBS needs IOPS performance so best case you want local SSD storage and not HDDs or NFS/SMB share adding latency.
PBS VM backed by NAS will work...just don't except it to be fast. Especially the GC will run a very long time.

I appreciate your response. I might try the vm route for a while and see how bad the performance is.