Backup strategy for NFS mounted in passthrough

[DynFi User]

I have couple of VM (mail servers) where I am mounting NFS shares in passthrough from the hypervisor.

I have red in a thread that the advised way to backup this is to install proxmox-backup-client inside the VM ?

Can someone from Proxmox confirm this ?

 

[dcsapak]

I have red in a thread that the advised way to backup this is to install proxmox-backup-client inside the VM ?

what do you mean exactly.

you can backup vms normally with vzdump/backup gui.
it will the make block-level backups

if you want file-level backups, you'd need to install the client in the vm and backup from there

 

[DynFi User]

Getting back to this thread.

I need to backup the NFS storage (data) mounted inside my VM.
What is the recommended way to do this ?

The mountpoint is inside the VM and data are written to It.

Thanks for your feedback.

 

[dcsapak]

I need to backup the NFS storage (data) mounted inside my VM.
What is the recommended way to do this ?

yes if you want to do this, you have to install the client in the vm and backup from there
or (probably) better, install it directly on the nfs server and do the backups straight from the source if possible