Encryption options for PBS local storage and S3

pahanijulmu

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Nov 4, 2025
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I have one Proxmox PVE 9.0.9 server and Proxmox PBS 4.0.18 on separate hardware (Debian 13 server and ZFS pool). I'm planning to add Backblaze B2 as offsite backup. Just wanted to confirm that if I'd like backups to go PVE -> PBS -> S3 and have them encrypted in S3, first I need to set PBS datastore encrypted and all backups are going to be encrypted? And if I would need to restore directly from S3 to new PVE server I would need same encryption key used to encrypt backups to PBS?

Or if I want only S3 to be encrypted, then I would need to add it as separate storage and run separate backup jobs?