Proxmox backup Server external storage

[rafaelkkksalgado]

Good evening!

how do I connect an external storage to my proxmox backup server? For example, turn on an ibm storage, or turn on a Truenas pool on my server, instead of saving to local disks. I didn't find documentation about.

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Backup Server 2.0-4

 

[floh8]

your backup server is bare metal then connect the storage via SAS

 

[rafaelkkksalgado]

your backup server is bare metal then connect the storage via SAS

I cant use Ethernet on proxmox backup server?

 

[floh8]

for backup server you need a block device like/via SAS, iscsi, FC, an image file, ne hdd
ethernet is no block device protocol - its part of the network layer system

 

[rafaelkkksalgado]

para o servidor de backup, você precisa de um dispositivo de bloco como SAS, iscsi, FC, um arquivo de imagem
ethernet não é um protocolo de dispositivo de bloco - é parte do sistema da camada de rede

Truenas have iscsi, can use Truenas ?

 

[floh8]

yes

 

[rafaelkkksalgado]

yes

Were i connect my Truenas on backup server. When i go to add storage, i dont find option to put iqn and target, like proxmox.

 

[floh8]

this is not yet implemented in the gui. so u have to use the console. maybe you have to install iscsi packages and so on..
search the internet for "configure iscsi initiator on debian"

 

[rafaelkkksalgado]

this is not yet implemented i nthe gui. so u have to use the console. maybe you have to install iscsi packages and so on..
search the internet for "configure iscsi initiator on debian"

Ok brow. Thanks for the light.

 

[floh8]

you can also install backup server direct on truenas. this will be the better structure design, but i dont know your enviroment

 

[Dunuin]

SMB and NFS are working fine. You just need to mount them yourself using fstab. Then you can use that mountpoint the usual way as a normal datastore. But keep in mind that performance will be bad if you use a network share instead of local disks.
Don't know how PBS 2.0 will do, but PSB 1.X wasn't installable inside a VM on TrueNAS. Needed to install a Debian10 instead and install PBS optop of that.

 

[floh8]

No. Backup datastore need xfs, ext4 or zfs to work. Look in the docu!

 

[Dunuin]

No. Backup datastore need xfs, ext4 or zfs to work. Look in the docu!

Working fine without it:
32 GiB virtual disk for system
4GiB virtual disk for swap
1TB NFS share for the datastore

 

[floh8]

I can only marvel at this. I translate the docu:
"A datastore refers to a location at which backups are stored. The current implementation uses a
directory inside a standard Unix file system (ext4, xfs or zfs) to store the backup data."
So i have to correct me - i understood it wrong. good job

 

[rafaelkkksalgado]

https://it.megocollector.com/linux/proxmox-backup-server-pbs-with-iscsi-resolved/

like that floh8

 

[Dunuin]

I can only marvel at this. I translate the docu:
"A datastore refers to a location at which backups are stored. The current implementation uses a
directory inside a standard Unix file system (ext4, xfs or zfs) to store the backup data."
So i have to correct me - i understand it wrong. good job

Yeah, so its just a normal directory and it needs atime, unix right management and so on so because of that a normal unix filesystem is needed.
But a NFS share got all that. And I am quite sure a SMB share should work too even if it is not fully unix compliant.