single backup server for two separate proxmox servers

mintyduck

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Sep 17, 2023
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Hello,

I'm new to proxmox and have been experimenting with servers and setups. I have two separate installs of proxmox (v8) on small NUCs and a backup server on another NUC.

Can I back up both servers to the same backup? I haven't tried in case I break something!

I wanted to combine them into a single cluster with shared storage - from what I can see I need you can't have any services running on a new server when you combine it into a cluster. The idea was to back up server two, remove the VMs, then make the cluster and restore the VMs.

Any help is appreciated.
 
I wanted to combine them into a single cluster with shared storage - from what I can see I need you can't have any services running on a new server when you combine it into a cluster. The idea was to back up server two, remove the VMs, then make the cluster and restore the VMs.
Keep in mind that you need at least 3 machines for a cluster. Either 3 PVE nodes or 2 PVE nodes + 1 other machine (dedicated PBS/NAS/Raspberry Pi or whatever) as a qdevice.