use pbs as fileserver also

glideless

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Hi.
We installed PBS on one of our servers and we really like functionality of it.
But on pbs server we have a lot of space (about 30TB) and currently we use it only to backup virtual machines from proxmox servers. But we also have other backups (database backups, file backups,...) + we would like to use storage on pbs server as some kind or archive also.
so my question is, can we use pbs as fileserver and if that is possible, how to configure it? i searched for this, but couldn't find the answer. A lot of people wants to connect fileserver to pbs, but we want to create fileserver on pbs, basically :)
 
Well basically PBS is a customized Debian so you can always install more Software. Whether you should is a different question though. Personally I would only install sonething like restic or borg server but not samba or NFS due to it's security implications
 

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