How to backup Linux clients without Proxmox Backup client?

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defekt

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Hey,

I am new to PBS. I have now got my server backups working and am now wondering how to backup clients to PBS. Proxmox Backup Client is not available on OpenSUSE as far as I can see.

In the past I have used a storage box that I connected to Pika via sftp, but now that I have PBS I want to get rid of the storage box.

Another idea was to create a dataset under my zfs pool and make it available via nfs. I could let Borg then do the backup on the client and let it Store on the dataset which then I can backup via Proxmox Backup client on the pve but I'm scared that would compromise the data due to the double wrapping. Do you have a good solution for this maybe?
 
There is work in progress to provide a statically linked proxmox backup client, which can be used for a broader range of Linux clients. See and subscribe to this issue for status updates.
 
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Hi,
akulbe said:
Are there any plans for a Windows client, by chance?
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this is on the roadmap, but there will be no official Windows client in the short term, see https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Roadmap

VictorSTS said:
Meanwhile the statically linked client is ready, take a look at this third party implementation in Go [1]. Haven't used it, so no idea how/if it works.
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While the statically linked binary will allow to be used on a wider range of Linux hosts, this will not allow to create backups from Windows hosts. This is because the underlying implementation and APIs are not compatible.
 
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Chris said:
While the statically linked binary will allow to be used on a wider range of Linux hosts, this will not allow to create backups from Windows hosts. This is because the underlying implementation and APIs are not compatible.
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I know it won't run natively, but I'm in the hopes that the all-in-one versión of proxmox-backup-client can run without much trouble inside Windows' WSL enviroment, which essentially is an Ubuntu. That probably won't allow backups of Windows itself, but may allow snapshot files. We'll see once it's released!
 
VictorSTS said:
I know it won't run natively, but I'm in the hopes that the all-in-one versión of proxmox-backup-client can run without much trouble inside Windows' WSL enviroment, which essentially is an Ubuntu. That probably won't allow backups of Windows itself, but may allow snapshot files. We'll see once it's released!
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Ah, I see... There were already some users in the forum which did perform backups using the PBS client inside the WSL, but this comes with its own set of issues [0, 1].

Please note: neither do we test such approaches, nor is this expected to work.

[0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/i...ent-in-windows-subsystem-for-linux-v2.110014/
[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/backup-failing-with-i-o-error.154995/
 
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