Hi community 
I have been using PVE and PBS for some time and 0 issues so far with the backup system so I am very happy.
Currently I backup only LXC and VMs and any restoration I had to do just worked.
Now, I would like to include backup of a shared folder where all my pictures are. The thing is, althought I played with the cli "proxmox-backup-client backup host ..." option and works same way than LXC or VMs, since backup is done at block level, I don't have any way to check how many files have been added, deleted etc... on each incremental copy. I can see the amount of data copied in MegaBytes in the task but this does not give me an indication of what changed from previous backup.
I am looking for a way to have confidence on the backups and identify if from one backup to another, for instance, thousand of files were deleted it may be an indicator that something happened by mistake.
I was playing with some very rudimentary process to mount using Fuse the previous and new backup in 2 folders and do a "diff -r folder1 folder2 | diffstat" to get the differences... but is far from ideal. Have not seen any other option in documentation as an alternative.
I totally understand the benefit of deduplication and for VMs I don't need this file comparison but for photos or media I really would like.
Someone in the same situation? I want to avoid to have another backup tool like duplicaty for files and PBS for rest if I can use PBS for both (gives me much more confidence among other benefits).
Thank you,
I have been using PVE and PBS for some time and 0 issues so far with the backup system so I am very happy.
Currently I backup only LXC and VMs and any restoration I had to do just worked.
Now, I would like to include backup of a shared folder where all my pictures are. The thing is, althought I played with the cli "proxmox-backup-client backup host ..." option and works same way than LXC or VMs, since backup is done at block level, I don't have any way to check how many files have been added, deleted etc... on each incremental copy. I can see the amount of data copied in MegaBytes in the task but this does not give me an indication of what changed from previous backup.
I am looking for a way to have confidence on the backups and identify if from one backup to another, for instance, thousand of files were deleted it may be an indicator that something happened by mistake.
I was playing with some very rudimentary process to mount using Fuse the previous and new backup in 2 folders and do a "diff -r folder1 folder2 | diffstat" to get the differences... but is far from ideal. Have not seen any other option in documentation as an alternative.
I totally understand the benefit of deduplication and for VMs I don't need this file comparison but for photos or media I really would like.
Someone in the same situation? I want to avoid to have another backup tool like duplicaty for files and PBS for rest if I can use PBS for both (gives me much more confidence among other benefits).
Thank you,
