PBS question

[alexskysilk]

Apologies in advance if I'm being obtuse and not seeing it in the docs

When using vzdump, I can always restore backups directly from their resulting tarballs. How do I go about restoring backups from a failed PBS instance? Is there a db/config backup mechanism I'm not seeing?

 

[leesteken]

There is a separate sub-forum for PBS: https://forum.proxmox.com/forums/proxmox-backup-installation-and-configuration.24/
The trick is to run mulitple PBSes, at least one off-site and then you won't have this problem ;-)

 

[alexskysilk]

gah sorry. I'm not only blind to documentation apparently.

 

[leesteken]

gah sorry. I'm not only blind to documentation apparently.

No problem. You could just backup your PBS with clonezilla (for example) regularly but you would need to have a backup of the data store (chucks and indexes) and reinstall PBS somewhere with the old data store (which might also have failed). So it's best to have multiple copies of your backups (for example by having multiple PBS).

 

[alexskysilk]

yeah thats what I'm currently doing; just thought its a bit hacky and hoped there is a blessed method for it.

 

[leesteken]

yeah thats what I'm currently doing; just thought its a bit hacky and hoped there is a blessed method for it.

Just to stress my point: the elegant way is to run multiple PBSes. For off-site, I can recommend https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/tuxis-launches-free-proxmox-backup-server-beta-service.76320/ (while using the encryption feature of PBS on your side, of course).