I'm looking to dual-purpose my PBS server for a niche use-case of backing up a small amount of important files that would be stored on a dedicated SSD formatted as Ext4. I was curious if PBS natively supported this. If not, would PBS have any isues with using the underlying Debian OS to mount that drive and throw rsync on a cron job?
Does PBS support a 'one off' drive for file backup?
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PBS store backup into a folder ".chunks" on any filesystem with one index per backup which list chunks used.
You need PBS to read or restore from this "Datastore".
PBS can be installed over plain Debian.
PBS has a Sync function, no need to rsync.
You need PBS to read or restore from this "Datastore".
PBS can be installed over plain Debian.
PBS has a Sync function, no need to rsync.
I appreciate the response! I did read about the sync function, however, there is a very niche reason that I would like to use a drive formatted with a filesystem rather than using a block format.
So since PBS doesn't support what I want to do, would PBS run into any issues if I did this directly on the underlying Debian OS?
So since PBS doesn't support what I want to do, would PBS run into any issues if I did this directly on the underlying Debian OS?
Some questins to make things more clear. Do you want PBS to store those files as PBS "backup snapshots" or do you simply want to somehow store/backup files on that same PBS server? First case there is the proxmox-backup-client but that only fully supports Debian (for other Debian-based Linux distros like Ubuntu you might need to fix some missing dependencies and so on. And there is an unofficial Windows client in early alpha status). For the latter one, you can customize your PBS like you could do with any Debian. Like installing a SMB/NFS/rsync/syncthing server on it and then using that to transfer your files there. Just make sure to not store anything else inside the PBS datastore folder or PBS will complain. Mounting some disk in "/mnt/someMount" and rsyncing some files there works totally fine. Thats the great thing with PBS not being an appliance.
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The latter. This will be a niche backup for a few files where someone could grab the SSD, hook it up to any computer, and be able to grab those files.Do you want PBS to store those files as PBS "backup snapshots" or do you simply want to somehow store/backup files on that same PBS server?
Thank you! That's what I was hoping to hear.