Proxmox VE backup Encryption

[chamath.jayaminda]

Is there a way to encrypt the Proxmox VE Virtual machine backups?

 

[Folke]

Yes there is, but the target has to be a proxmox backup server. Encryption on other storages are currently not supported.
If you have a pbs set up and added as storage, you can go to <pve instance> > Datacenter > Storage > <pbs storage> > Edit and there you have an encryption tab.
Be aware that any previous backups will still be unencrypted and that you can't do an incremental backup from the plaintext one

 

[chamath.jayaminda]

Yes there is, but the target has to be a proxmox backup server. Encryption on other storages are currently not supported.
If you have a pbs set up and added as storage, you can go to <pve instance> > Datacenter > Storage > <pbs storage> > Edit and there you have an encryption tab.
Be aware that any previous backups will still be unencrypted and that you can't do an incremental backup from the plaintext one

Without having a PBS, Do we have any method to do the encryption on Proxmox VE VMs?

 

[LnxBil]

Without having a PBS, Do we have any method to do the encryption on Proxmox VE VMs?

VMs it's easy ... use ZFS with encryption, the backups are encrypted if you choose a disk layout with a LUKS layer in between. Then everything will be LUKS encrypted. You can also use encfs as an overlay. So please google about LUKS and encfs. Both are standard Linux technologies.