Creating Backups from PBS

[Gamienator]

Hey everyone,

Currently I have one PBS and looking for an additional Space to save backups. The Proxmox Server and PBS is hosted on a dedicated Server provider. I know PBS has a Remotes Feature where it can replicate its backups to another PBS. While I like that Idea I have a problem with that. That PBS has to connect to another PBS, which means API Access etc.

Is there a way, that a 3rd machine (debian) can connect to my PBS, and recover a backup to itself as .tar? A simple scp of the Datastore is not possible, thats what I know. But I would like to save this Backups on my location locally, without giving either my root server, or PBS granting access to this Debian Machine and even more, opening up a Port to have it pubicly available on the Internet. Could proxmox-backup-manager be the correct way?

Thanks a lot!

 

[fabian]

the built-in sync feature works both ways (you can have pull or push syncing). of course you can also access the backup data using proxmox-backup-client and somehow store them, but that way you lose most of the benefits of PBS (integration into PVE, deduplication, ..)

 

[Gamienator]

Ah really? It goes in two directions? Well that’s neat, I’ll try that out, thanks!

 

[fabian]

if your PBS is new enough, yes it's a new feature in PBS 3.3

 

[Gamienator]

Well if that isn't a reason tu update

I will need to create a second PBS anyway, so I'll try that. Thank you very much!