Hi, small note to just give bit of feedback to forum / team. I just finished using my first test setup with (proxmox latest) and (proxmox backup server). So far I am extremely happy with how it all works.
The setup is very standard kind of stuff, ie,
(a) Physical host is a standard OVH rental xeon server that started as Prox5 template install by OVH. Then I did in-place upgrade to move it up to Prox6.X (they don't appear to have a Prox6 template available yet, at least not in site I was deploying).
(b) PBS server is a 'dedicated VM running Deb10 in OVH public cloud" - effectively a small dedicated debian instance, 2Tb local disk space, 2 CPU, 2gb ram I believe. Once Debian was installed from stock OVH setup - and then patched to latest - I followed the PBS install doc for how to convert a Debian box into a PBS server. This basically went very smoothly.
Once both hosts were ready. Getting the PBS server configured on the Proxmox host was striaghtforward and I have now a new 'backup storage target' - the data repository created on the PBS server. From there it was a matter of using normal built-in Proxmox "do backup now" or "schedule backups / this VM to that target" kind of approach to get it to push backup jobs along using the PBS storage repo.
( It was important to make sure both proxmox and PBS hosts were 100% up to date / and running precisely the same up-to-date status for things to work fine. But this is not exactly hard thing to achieve. )
So far I've only run 1 x Backup for each of 3 x VM running on the Proxmox node. (1 x OpenVPN Linux Turnkey server VM; and 2 x Windows server instances). Already it seems the 2 x windows servers instances did dedup against one another, ie, second windows backup job told me specifically ~12gigs of shared blocks (approx) in the backup job, even though it was my first backup of this VM. (But second backup of a windows server instance / same flavour of WinServer).
I am guessing I will see more / nice / dedup/incremental style behaviour as I push along more backups (ie, nightly or weekly).
But anyhoo. I just wanted to make quick post to the forum to say a big (huge!) thank you to the proxmox team for building out this functionality in PBS. It is really going to be a game changer I think. Tremendously functional. Really really good news kind of thing.
Obviously my use is very limited so far. I have not got all use cases tested obviously. But. That aside, wow.
Tim
The setup is very standard kind of stuff, ie,
(a) Physical host is a standard OVH rental xeon server that started as Prox5 template install by OVH. Then I did in-place upgrade to move it up to Prox6.X (they don't appear to have a Prox6 template available yet, at least not in site I was deploying).
(b) PBS server is a 'dedicated VM running Deb10 in OVH public cloud" - effectively a small dedicated debian instance, 2Tb local disk space, 2 CPU, 2gb ram I believe. Once Debian was installed from stock OVH setup - and then patched to latest - I followed the PBS install doc for how to convert a Debian box into a PBS server. This basically went very smoothly.
Once both hosts were ready. Getting the PBS server configured on the Proxmox host was striaghtforward and I have now a new 'backup storage target' - the data repository created on the PBS server. From there it was a matter of using normal built-in Proxmox "do backup now" or "schedule backups / this VM to that target" kind of approach to get it to push backup jobs along using the PBS storage repo.
( It was important to make sure both proxmox and PBS hosts were 100% up to date / and running precisely the same up-to-date status for things to work fine. But this is not exactly hard thing to achieve. )
So far I've only run 1 x Backup for each of 3 x VM running on the Proxmox node. (1 x OpenVPN Linux Turnkey server VM; and 2 x Windows server instances). Already it seems the 2 x windows servers instances did dedup against one another, ie, second windows backup job told me specifically ~12gigs of shared blocks (approx) in the backup job, even though it was my first backup of this VM. (But second backup of a windows server instance / same flavour of WinServer).
I am guessing I will see more / nice / dedup/incremental style behaviour as I push along more backups (ie, nightly or weekly).
But anyhoo. I just wanted to make quick post to the forum to say a big (huge!) thank you to the proxmox team for building out this functionality in PBS. It is really going to be a game changer I think. Tremendously functional. Really really good news kind of thing.
Obviously my use is very limited so far. I have not got all use cases tested obviously. But. That aside, wow.
Tim
