PBS Backup a MacBook?

[Johannes S]

What's the usecase which can't be solved by using a 3d Party backup tool like restic, Duplikate, borg or whatever you prefer?
PBS is mainly for PVE vms and lxcs, for restore you need a working PBS.

While with restic or similiar Tools you just need the backup tool Binary which xan be saved on the same storage as the actual backup ( samba or nfs share, sftp access, s3 storage etc).

For this reason although my notebook runs Debian ( thus proxmox-backip-client is available) I would never use PBS as backup for it. And I would never use restic to fo backups of my vms.
Use the right Tool for the right job.

 

[raven112]

+1 for the mac client )

 

[raven112]

What's the usecase which can't be solved by using a 3d Party backup tool like restic, Duplikate, borg or whatever you prefer?
PBS is mainly for PVE vms and lxcs, for restore you need a working PBS.

While with restic or similiar Tools you just need the backup tool Binary which xan be saved on the same storage as the actual backup ( samba or nfs share, sftp access, s3 storage etc).

For this reason although my notebook runs Debian ( thus proxmox-backip-client is available) I would never use PBS as backup for it. And I would never use restic to fo backups of my vms.
Use the right Tool for the right job.

That's true, there are many useful tools for doing backups, but if i have pbs in my home network, it'd be great to achive ability to backup and restore my machine(s) within one place and functionality with VMs. Less worries less troubles))
Moreover, having an incremental backup ability, would be just great!

 

[Johannes S]

Well borg or restic Server can be installed in parallel to pbs, this is what I did on my vserver. For a gui or webui you would need to look for frontends though.

duplicati has a webui btw.

Most of these Tools just need ssh for data Transfer and all of them have incremental backup

Imho PBS is not suitable as generic backup Utility. For VM and lxc backups it's the best.

Your mileage may varie