Mount local storage on remote server to copy backups

[thedotlair]

Hey,

I've been going through all of the options but can't seem to find an answer to the question - it may be a stupid question, so happy to accept that

Historically I've backed up my LXC/VMs to a virtualised unraid server on a promox instance but I'd like to change that so I use a local disk. From there I'd transfer up to somewhere like Backblaze B2 for my offsite backups.

At the moment I have a local 512gb SSD on my Proxmox server which will be where Proxmox will backup to and would like to remotely mount that in a privileged LXC (running something like Duplicati or BorgBackup). I couldn't find anything in the GUI to allow access to it but I'm guessing that it's a simple case of setting up Samba on the Proxmox host and configuring the appropriate mount points on the target server.

Is that really the best way? Better to ask than be stupid about it

Cheers

 

[fabian]

yeah, for making a local disk available to another host over the network you need some sort of network file system (usually CIFS/NFS). for local access you could also use a bind mount. of course, it is also possible (and possibly advisable ) to do the export via a guest instead of on the host, but there are plenty people doing both variants.