Run PBS 4 bare metal or as either a VM or LXC under PVE 9?

[NukeThemTillTheyGlow]

Config for the past couple of years has been 1) Dell 7070 SF, 32 Gb RAM running PVE and a Home Assistant VM and a Win 11 VM. 2) Dell 5070 SFF, 16 Gb RAM, running bare metal PBS only.

I tried to update my PBS 3 to 4 last night expecting a smooth update/upgrade and I think I must have run into one of the network issues or similar. Decided to just wipe out the PBS 3 install as it was running bare metal on its own Dell 5070 SFF and do a clean install. I just installed PBS 4 clean install and now looking to do the post-install updates and wondering if I can run the existing Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts for PBS post-install or if thats for PBS 3?

And now it has me wondering if I should install PVE on my second machine (PVE 9), run PBS as a VM and give myself some redundancy and more flexibility? Or as a LXC? I see the script in Helper-Scripts to create a PBS LXC and wonder what the pro's/con's are for running PBS under PVE and which is best route, VM or LXC?

 

[UdoB]

The whole point of a backup is to be available when the original system dies.

When a PVE dies the VM implementing PBS is gone too, no? (The same -of course- for a Container or direct parallel installation.)

For me the classic 3-2-1 rule makes sense. The Backup (software and data) needs to be on independent hardware!

 

[NukeThemTillTheyGlow]

The whole point of a backup is to be available when the original system dies.

When a PVE dies the VM implementing PBS is gone too, no? (The same -of course- for a Container or direct parallel installation.)

For me the classic 3-2-1 rule makes sense. The Backup (software and data) needs to be on independent hardware!

Thank you for your feedback! I have a second machine running PVE 9 and I just used the script from Helper-Scripts to create PBS in a LXC container.. its running Debian 12 and PBS 3.4, but its up and running and I'm looking to get a basic config going soon. This is my first time using a LXC so learning. I thought about trying a VM, but no script for that.