Bare metal copy

[yosu111]

I just installed and configurated Proxmox Backup Server becouse i thoght you could do a bare metal copy of Proxmox VE, but I don't find the option to make it.
Can someone tell me how to do it or if I'm wrong and you cannot do it? I would be very grateful. Thanks.

 

[leesteken]

I just installed and configurated Proxmox Backup Server becouse i thoght you could do a bare metal copy of Proxmox VE, but I don't find the option to make it.

There is the Proxmox Backup Client that you can install and run on Proxmox VE (or other Debian or supported systems, either bare-metal or virtual) but it is a file backup (any you need to specify which files and directories) and not a disk/block copy like CloneZilla or something.

 

[Kingneutron]

Look into Veeam agent for Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9J-mmoCLTs

I successfully did a full bare-metal backup of my pve host and restored into a VM (with host-only network, so as not to have IP address conflict)

Alternatively, I have homegrown scripts for baremetal backup/restore and general sysadmin:

https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/tree/master/proxmox


Each method has advantages, so I do both - on alternating days.

fsarchiver will allow you to restore to smaller disk, but you have to run the Proxmox installer beforehand to recreate the LVM. It can also convert ext4 to XFS on the fly (and vice versa) but the process is a bit more hands-on. I have taken steps to try and make things easier for end-users and document the full process.

Veeam agent will restore the LVM for you - but NOT LVM-thin! You still need to have backups of your VMs and critical files. It also needs same-sized disk to restore to (or possibly larger, haven't tested it)

Whichever method you go with, test your restores. A backup is not a backup unless it restores properly, and the resulting environment is as expected.

 

[yosu111]

I'm gonna give a try to Veeam, thank you both for answer and help me.

 

[yosu111]

@Kingneutron I need help with veeam, when I'm going to connect to a shared NFS foldier to my backups this error appears:
Input/output error │
Unable to create directory [/tmp/veeam/192.168.101.220:mntNASBCKSVMspruebasPMBKP/tmp_a04c11b3-9654-4487-aa1d-318c51218465].
I already did chmod 777 /tmp and still keeps like that. I need help.

 

[Kingneutron]

I don't really use NFS, so would encourage you to post on a Veeam forum for that. It works fine for me with SMB

 

[yosu111]

Solved. Veeam is a nice method. Thank you for the help.