How to set up a network storage as a storage for backups

Drax

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My Node doesn't have attached backup. I was looking for input on how I connect it to another server that is at a different IP to use it as a backup.
 
Everything I read looked like local file storage solutions. I didn't see anything that jumped out at me as network storage like backing up to Amazon or to another generic server somewhere.
 
backing up to Amazon or to another generic server somewhere.
For example, NFS/SMB are file based network storage. Amazon is a cloud provider, that offers storage in various forms, but I guess, you mean the object store S3.

Besides the naming differences, a low bandwidth and high latency storage (in most cases) is not suitable for the vzdump backup. Vzdump is writing one big file. That is always a full backup.

One possibility for the usage of S3 and there alike is to create a backup locally and transfer it afterwards to a cloud storage. The backup supports hook scripts, that could accomplish this.
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-vzdump.html#_hook_scripts