Hi
I would just like to get some suggestions in what way I should go..
Today I have my main server as a Proxmox host, running a few VMs (hass, unifi, minecraft-server ect.). And I have a few drives (EXT4) just mounted as NFS-share as storage on my home network, mainly for raw data from drone clips (huge sizes!) + pictures and i additionally keep a copy of family photos and document backups. Planing to add immich or similar as a VM or LXC, and store the pictures on the NFS share.
I do have physical external backups from the storage, but it's not automated so I don't do it often enough. And since it's all in the same house I have recently put a small host "offsite" with enough drive capacity to make backups of the important part of the NFS share. I do have knowledge how to make a tunnel to the offsite host, and I think I could solve some sort of backup with rsync + crontab.. But if there is a gui-way that is a bit easier i would prefer that. I think i would like to have an option for encryption on offsite server as well. Can be solved with luks encrypted drive otherwise.
I did try and kind succeed in making a backup off my "backup folder" on my main home server to the offsite host but it's not convenient to use and I have no good visual control and it would probably be a set up and forget solution and i would fail to see if it breaks.
First ssh a tunnel to the offsite, then decrypt and mount a luks encrypted drive on the offsite, rsync the "backup folder", umount and lock the drive.
But as I stated there probably is a better, easier way. PBS didn't seem to be of any use for backup a drive or a folder, more for backing up VM/CT ect. and I think proxmox default backup solution on the host is all i need for making snapshots of my VM's. It's the data drives i need to find a solution for.
If possible some opensource trusted software to run as an LXC? I'm trying to avoid VM's if possible since i have limited amount of memory/RAM.
BR
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edit: I did spend the evening doing research, and Kopia (kopia.io) seems promising. I did a new CT and install kopia server webgui, looks pretty straight forward. Did a few local test runs, that seems to work fine, learned that I need to map uid, for unprivileged CT, so I did my try runs with a privileged one.
will update again later if it works over time or if I find out that something exploded
I would just like to get some suggestions in what way I should go..
Today I have my main server as a Proxmox host, running a few VMs (hass, unifi, minecraft-server ect.). And I have a few drives (EXT4) just mounted as NFS-share as storage on my home network, mainly for raw data from drone clips (huge sizes!) + pictures and i additionally keep a copy of family photos and document backups. Planing to add immich or similar as a VM or LXC, and store the pictures on the NFS share.
I do have physical external backups from the storage, but it's not automated so I don't do it often enough. And since it's all in the same house I have recently put a small host "offsite" with enough drive capacity to make backups of the important part of the NFS share. I do have knowledge how to make a tunnel to the offsite host, and I think I could solve some sort of backup with rsync + crontab.. But if there is a gui-way that is a bit easier i would prefer that. I think i would like to have an option for encryption on offsite server as well. Can be solved with luks encrypted drive otherwise.
I did try and kind succeed in making a backup off my "backup folder" on my main home server to the offsite host but it's not convenient to use and I have no good visual control and it would probably be a set up and forget solution and i would fail to see if it breaks.
First ssh a tunnel to the offsite, then decrypt and mount a luks encrypted drive on the offsite, rsync the "backup folder", umount and lock the drive.
But as I stated there probably is a better, easier way. PBS didn't seem to be of any use for backup a drive or a folder, more for backing up VM/CT ect. and I think proxmox default backup solution on the host is all i need for making snapshots of my VM's. It's the data drives i need to find a solution for.
If possible some opensource trusted software to run as an LXC? I'm trying to avoid VM's if possible since i have limited amount of memory/RAM.
BR
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edit: I did spend the evening doing research, and Kopia (kopia.io) seems promising. I did a new CT and install kopia server webgui, looks pretty straight forward. Did a few local test runs, that seems to work fine, learned that I need to map uid, for unprivileged CT, so I did my try runs with a privileged one.
will update again later if it works over time or if I find out that something exploded
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