Physical hosts backups?

[Cussy]

Hi
I was just wondering if physical hosts backups are available or if it will come with future updates?

 

[tom]

Hi
I was just wondering if physical hosts backups are available or if it will come with future updates?

Physical host backup means that you can do backups via the proxmox-backup-client. The backup client is currently available for Debian, other distros will follow.

 

[Cussy]

Physical host backup means that you can do backups via the proxmox-backup-client. The backup client is currently available for Debian, other distros will follow.

Can it backup Proxmox Virtual Environment hosts? I have been looking for a way to easily backup the host itself and not just VMs and Containers.

 

[tom]

Can it backup Proxmox Virtual Environment hosts? I have been looking for a way to easily backup the host itself and not just VMs and Containers.

I assume you will get this with the upcoming 6.3 release.

 

[Cussy]

I assume you will get this with the upcoming 6.3 release.

Okey Do you know anything about when it will release?

 

[dylanw]

Can it backup Proxmox Virtual Environment hosts? I have been looking for a way to easily backup the host itself and not just VMs and Containers.

I believe what you are asking for is currently available in the latest version of PVE (see https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#creating-backups).
To backup a PVE host, just run the following from your pve host:

proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository $REPOSITORY

Note: you can pass the --include-dev to include any additional mount points.

 

[Proxygen]

Is it possible to bare metal restore a PVE 7.2 (ZFS root) host backed up using PBC?

 

[Dunuin]

Jup, I created a bootable Debian USB stick with PBC for that. PBC can backup and restore any block device. Just make sure that block device isn't in use. There are some threads in this forum about this.

 

[Fitzroy Engineering]

I believe what you are asking for is currently available in the latest version of PVE (see https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#creating-backups).
To backup a PVE host, just run the following from your pve host:

proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository $REPOSITORY

Note: you can pass the --include-dev to include any additional mount points.

Thanks it works but I had to disable my 2FA, never prompt me for it, it just say Authentication Failed.

 

[Proxygen]

Thanks it works but I had to disable my 2FA, never prompt me for it, it just say Authentication Failed.

you mean on the instance recovered from backup?

 

[Fitzroy Engineering]

you mean on the instance recovered from backup?

No. Running the physical backup you need to enter it's credentials. for example when you run command proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/ --repository my-server:Store1. This will then connect to https://my-server:8007 and prompt you for that server credentials, I had 2FA enabled and had to remove it to get pass the authentication.

 

[Dunuin]

But that should only count for file level backups. Not for block level backups where PVE isn't running at all.

 

[dragon2611]

Thanks it works but I had to disable my 2FA, never prompt me for it, it just say Authentication Failed.

Setup an API key in proxmox backup server, ideally with just enough permissions needed to do the backup and login with that instead of the root user/pass.