Centralized backup server

[showiproute]

Hello everyone,

beside the I guess main function of backing up Proxmox VMs is it also planned to have PBS being a centralized backup server like Bacula where you can install a client on a physical machine and back up stuff via a local installed client?

Or would that be out of scope - at least for the moment?

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,

While the integration into Proxmox VE for VMs and Containers is first-class we still use the standard Proxmox Backup Server client and libraries for that, which can also be used on other hosts.

Bacula where you can install a client on a physical machine and back up stuff via a local installed client?

See https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html

For now, we provide packages for recent Debian derivates, like all plain Debian Buster, Ubuntu 20.04 and similar distros, see the
Proxmox Backup Client-only Repository section in the docs. An RPM build is on the roadmap, and there exists an Arch Linux user repo package maintained by me and another dev.

 

[showiproute]

Thanks for clarification!
I am looking forward to any new development as I have a Windows 10 computer which I would like to backup as soon as there is a working solution.

 

[t.lamprecht]

Just FYI: Windows is a bit further down the roadmap, as its filesystem(s) architecture behave very different from the one from the *nix (Linux, BSD, ...) worlds, not impossible but surely a lot of work to get a fully native and first-class integration.

 

[showiproute]

Hi Thomas,

sure - it make sense to have Linux covered earlier then MS file systems.
If you need a beta tester for any development just contact me - I am using NTFS & ReFS on my system.