VE Backup to multiple USB drives

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jona

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Hi all.
I'm currently using the backup mechanism of VE to backup my containers and vms to a NAS and to my Proxmox backup server.
I was wondering if there is a (simple) way to also backup to a pool of USB connected drives.
In detail this means, that I could have, let's say 5, USB drives and every day I only change the USB drive which is connected to the server. Without any UI interaction or anything else. Just unplug, and plug.
I have seen some posts about registering external devices, but nothing compared to this scenario.
Is there a way to handle backup devces like this?

Thanks and warm greeetings from spain.
 
@Kingneutron thank you very much for response. The tool looks quite interessting to me.
This is indeed a problem, but the intention is to always have an off-site backup.
Network shares are always connected, so a ransomeware attack would also make the backups on network drives useless. Another reason for having the additional off-site backups are robbery, fire, water, etc.

What would you use instead of USB drives as a secondary backup medium?
 
> Network shares are always connected, so a ransomeware attack would also make the backups on network drives useless. Another reason for having the additional off-site backups are robbery, fire, water, etc

Understandable. Look into ZFS snapshots for ransomware protection, and you can also duplicate them on another server (or cloud, such as rsync.net ) - IMHO it's best to keep ~30 days or less worth of snapshots on your primary server

https://www.45drives.com/community/articles/How-to-Protect-Your-Data-from-Ransomware-Attacks/

You could also look into LTO tape drives, Proxmox Backup Server has support for tape

And there's this:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-...cuts-wasabi-and-backblaze-cloud-storage-by-75
 
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