Best practice: Installation via apt or new?

[whiterabbit]

Hi.
I have an old server with proxmox that is already used for backups. What's the best practice in this case: a fresh installation or simply "apt-get install proxmox-backup-server"? Is it a problem when there's a normal Proxmox Installation on the same server? Or is it not recommended?
Thanks.

 

[oguz]

hi,

ideally you would have a separate server for this, that doesn't run VMs.

however you can use them in conjunction like you described, by apt installing it.

 

[whiterabbit]

Ok, thank you.
In my case the second server is already seperated ... no VM is set to "Autostart".
I will try it by "apt" then first ... maybe it's even possible to remove the "normal" Proxmox-Server by "apt" in the same way?