Proxmox VE and Backup Server on one machine?

[drnicolas]

I am absolutely new and currecntly using vSphere ESXi. Backups are done with BackupExec on a VM using the according agent. Backups are stored on a NAS
This works, but has never been satisfying. I have always to rely on the VM with BackupExec working.

In case, I change to Proxmox VE, also the backups should be more solid.

Q1: Do I need to use a separate bare metal machine for Backup Server?
Q2: Can I also do backups to SQL-DBs and Exchange DBs with Backup Server?
Q3: In case not, is there something available which can do all this?
Q4: Can Proxmox VE do it's own backups?

Thank you

 

[dylanw]

Hey,

Q1: Do I need to use a separate bare metal machine for Backup Server?

Proxmox Backup Server can be installed on top of Debian and as a result, Proxmox VE [1]. The only concern here is that your backup server is not decoupled from the system being backed up, so system failures can cause some inconvenience at best.

Q2: Can I also do backups to SQL-DBs and Exchange DBs with Backup Server?

It supports file level backups [2][3], which should enable you to back up these databases.

Q4: Can Proxmox VE do it's own backups?

Proxmox VE uses the vzdump tool [4] to handle VM and container backups. This tool is used to carry out every backup in Proxmox VE, whether it's to Proxmox Backup Server or any of the other supported storage options. This way, you have a universal interface and don't need to think of all the details. Other than this, proxmox-backup-client [3] is available to handle any host system backups you may want to do.

[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-proxmox-backup-server-on-debian
[2] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/terminology.html#backup-type
[3] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#creating-backups
[4] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#chapter_vzdump

 

[drnicolas]

Thank you.
I will read the literature first and then try

 

[drnicolas]

Okay. Thank you for the "input"
For the first trial, I installed Proxmox ve and backup Server as a VM inside my ESXi.
Seems to work fine

My idea is to set up a Proxmox on NEW hardware and then migrate all VMs.
So, stay tuned

 

[necrien]

package not currently available?
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-package-not-available.121922/