Proxmox VE Backup options

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uzair

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Hi everyone,

We are using a 4-blade server with proxmox VE installed in each node and currently we have PBS datastore configured for each node. This PBS is installed on a VM on another server and it's getting costly for us to manage this one server for just a single VM.

Are there any other backup options available through which we can take backups of the VMs. I am quite new to the proxmox world and not sure which solution would work fine for us. I would be grateful if any expert can guide me for this.
 
uzair said:
We are using a 4-blade server with proxmox VE installed in each node and currently we have PBS datastore configured for each node. This PBS is installed on a VM on another server and it's getting costly for us to manage this one server for just a single VM.
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If only PBS is running on it, PBS could be run natively.

Are there any other backup options available through which we can take backups of the VMs. I am quite new to the proxmox world and not sure which solution would work fine for us.
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It depends on what the goal should be...There are basically 2 integrated solutions from Proxmox.

  • PBS with many features [1] e.g. dedup, Ransomware Protection, encryption...
  • Classical vzdump [2] -> A full backup of all data per VM/CT is always generated here and written to a single file with vzdump. Compression (3 variants) is possible. A local storage, NFS or Samba can be used as a backup space, for example.


[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/introduction.html#main-features
[2] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#chapter_vzdump
 
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