Firewall ports to allow when Proxmox and PBS on different networks?

jdancer

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I have the following network setup:

192.168.1.0/24 VLAN 10
pve1.host.local 192.168.1.11/24
pve2.host.local 192.168.1.12/24
pve3.host.local 192.168.1.13/24

192.168.2.0/24 VLAN 20
pbs.guest.local 192.168.2.254/24

Each VLAN is protected by a firewall.

Per https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/which-network-ports-are-required.72744, PBS listens on TCP port 8007.

What TCP port do I need to allow in the firewall for the PVE hosts on 192.168.1.0/24 to reach the PBS on 192.168.2.0/24? Is it TCP port 8007?

Per https://old.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/s69u01/proxmox_backup_server_task_error_failed_to, the OP says that PBS uses a "pull" method to initiate backups.

What TCP port do I need to allow in the firewall for the PBS on 192.168.2.0/24 to reach the PVE hosts on 192.168.1.0/24 ? Is it TCP port 443?

In summary, do I need 2 firewall rules or 1 firewall rule. If 1 firewall rule, what TCP port do I use and and on what network?

Thanks for the help!
 
no, backups are push based (the client needs to reach the pbs on port 8007 (tcp) it uses http/http2)
the sync feature (pbs -> pbs) is pull based, there the target needs to reach the source again on port 8007 (tcp)
 
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