Scheduling a host backup using the backup client

[Daxcor]

I am new to proxmox backup. I have watch the videos, read the docs, but I can see how to schedule a file level backup on a host. Is the idea then to just use cron to issue the backup client command?

The other question I have, is I don't see how to specify a differential backup. Not sure I am using the right word. The idea, is to do a full backup on monday, and then every day it would be just a small backup of only files that have changed. I don't see any way to do that with the backup client from the cli.

I might be missing how this works. Any enlightenment would be appreciated.

thanks
Brad

 

[Dunuin]

Is the idea then to just use cron to issue the backup client command?

Yes, cron, systemd timer or whatever.

The other question I have, is I don't see how to specify a differential backup

PBS is never doing differential backups. All backups are full backups and at the same time incremental because of the deduplication.