Backup ZFS Datasets using PBS

[fritzmox]

Hello, I'm using Proxmox for a while now, running different Containers and VM's. Recently I set up a Proxmox Backup server, and now wondering if it can Backup my ZFS datasets which are running on the PVE host. In particular I have one ZFS pool "storage" which contains multiple datasets. The datasets are bind mounted do containers and hold the mass data for the containers, e.g. the data folder of a nextcloud instance or the movie files for the plex container.
How would I backup those datasets using PBS? Or is PBS just not meant to be used that way and I will have to use borg or rsync or whatever?

Thanks for helping me out!

 

[Chris]

Hi,
you can use the proxmox-backup-client backup command to backup contents from the mounted datasets to the Proxmox Backup Server, see https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#creating-backups

 

[fritzmox]

Thanks for that, I wasn't aware of that feature! Works great!
However, would be nice to have that in the GUI as well, just for convenience. Maybe one day...?

 

[Kodey]

just for convenience.

It would definitely be convenient to manage all backups through the same interface. Just less work for admins.
It would also be hugely convenient to be able to backup a dataset as a scheduled job with all the benefits of other job.