Backups directly to remote location?

[nerd]

So I've got a server with only 2 clients running on it.
One of the clients is using 51% of the diskspace however.. not a problem I thought. That is until I wanted to backup the server.

I would have expected a way to backup this to remote storage, but out of the box this does not seem to be possible?
I did find info about remotes, but this is a homelab deployment with no extra hosts available to install Proxmox Backup Server on.

So.. can I somehow attach a network drive or something to which I can backup without using the local disk?
Obviously I am just getting to know proxmox and linux so I do apologize if I missed an obvious solution.

 

[fabian]

yes, regular non-PBS vzdump onto a directory storage (NFS/CIFS if you want it to be non-local) would be an option in this case. depending on guest type and backup mode you might or might not need local scratch space though (e.g., containers and suspend mode backups require it).

 

[nerd]

Right.. once I knew to click on datacenter instead of the pve host it became pretty obvious how to add such storage.
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction Fabian.
And OMG, now I realize what an idiot I was when trying to get the ISO file on PVE lol.