I've recently added a removable drive bay to my PBS chassis and PBS does see and is able to wipe/initialize. Is it possible to use this drive to copy all backups for off site storage?
Offsite backup store via PBS - no tapes
- Thread starter HiroPro
- Start date
You could use it as another Datastore and make use of a local sync job to copy data between datastores. And then use the maintainance mode when the drive isn't in use. But no, external disks or drive rotation isn't implemented yet. The common way to have offsite backups would be to get another PBS and make use of sync jobs to sync them.
I'll defer to the Distinguished Member's advice. They probably actually know about this.
On the other hand, I see lots of tape features documented on Tape Backup wiki page.
Sure looks to me like the basics are here.
But I don't use tapes a lot, and I've never tried to use them with PBS.
Tell ya what. Do you know what you are doing? Read this.
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/tape-backup.html#tape-quick-start
In what way does this feature set _not_ meet the need?
At some point, I'm going to build a VTL with an old storage server, and just see what it can do for me.
Proxmox directions for that here.
https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_a_Virtual_Tape_Library
On the other hand, I see lots of tape features documented on Tape Backup wiki page.
Sure looks to me like the basics are here.
But I don't use tapes a lot, and I've never tried to use them with PBS.
Tell ya what. Do you know what you are doing? Read this.
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/tape-backup.html#tape-quick-start
In what way does this feature set _not_ meet the need?
At some point, I'm going to build a VTL with an old storage server, and just see what it can do for me.
Proxmox directions for that here.
https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_a_Virtual_Tape_Library
I don't want to spend money on cloud services and would love to use something like this to keep off site.
https://global.icydock.com/product_332.html
To implement offsite backup via PBS, you need to Proxmox Backup Servers and then set up a sync job: https://www.vinchin.com/vm-backup/proxmox-offsite-backup.html
Thank you for the suggestion but what I'm trying to explain is that I want to use my hot swap drive make periodic backups so i can keep the drive offsite.