Using PBS to backup PVE

[deniax]

Hi,

I tried searching the manuals, but I couldn't find a clear answer on this unfortunately.

I have PVE installed on baremetal, booting from an SSD.
I have PBS installed as a VM, and its successfully backing up my VM's and containers.

But, how can I backup my PVE itself? So that for example when the drive fails that PVE is installed on, I can restore all configs about the VM's , storages, etc?

 

[Matthias.]

See e.g. https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/host-backup.121343/#post-527401

The problem with PBS as VM is that if your PVE dies, you might have troubles recovering the VM.
But you absolutely can (not should) backup the host PVE into the VM.