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

[Drax]

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.

 

[Alwin]

See our documentation, you can use most file based storages for backups.
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html

 

[Drax]

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.

 

[Alwin]

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