27.09.2021 · As Proxmox purges the backups, they’re retained in the S3 bucket for about 90 days before finally being purged. This gives me a nice balance of having locally available backups for quick restoration, and more complete offsite backups.
27.04.2021 · Introduction After I migrated my home server to use Proxmox, I began searching for a new offsite, cloud backup solution. I was using CrashPlan, and my discounted subscription expired. I wanted to know if I could keep the offsite backup costs a little lower than $10 per month (even though that is not a huge expense to ensure your most important files are protected) and …
14.02.2021 · I wanted to install Proxmox Backup Server on this, to easily store offsite backups for my Proxmox hypervisors. However, the Proxmox Backup Server systrem requirements are quite steep. According to the documentation, it requires a …
30.11.2020 · Basically I have installed Proxmox VE with zfs raidz1 during install and then isntalled tha proxmox backup server on top of that. This allows me to also run a small vm on the machine if needed. (NOTE, This vm is not running anything that would needed to be backed up, basically it is just a elasticsearch hearbeat monitor to ping some devices for uptime)
zfs set volsize=32G rpool/data/vm-100-disk-2 (shrinking the disk to 32 GB) To see the result in Proxmox GUI, detach and add disk after the change. Proxmox7 fresh reinstall (a week old) on a brand new 500GB disk broken due to disk being full. 300GB of free space in 24 hours. Never had this issue with 6, 2nd time now on 7.
Encrypted off-site backup of Proxmox VE vzdump images for $5/month/TB. This plugin to vzdump will hook into after a single VM backup is done. It will. split the .vma.lzo file that vzdump wrote to chunks of configurable size (default is 2 GB, B2 allows up to 5 GB=5*10^9 byte); encrypt them using a symmetric key (password - no GPG keys used),
13.10.2017 · I want to install Proxmox on SSD drive and mount SATA as a backup. I'm thinking to have proxmox backup CentOS VM to SATA once a week. Then I'm thinking to have rsync from within CentOS7 to SATA drive every 15 mins. And then rsync to offsite backup server nightly. This way if primary SSD drive fails, I can replace it, load Proxmox, restore VM ...
07.08.2021 · 7 Aug 2021, 13:27. @jaredbusch said in Offsite backup options for ProxMox deployment: So, driving home still, but I just deployed a two server proxmox setup. Everything runs on server 1 and replicates to server 2. A repurposed desktop is running ProxMox Backup Server with storage being a NFS Mount to a Synology.
06.06.2020 · There is no proxmox feature for this. You will have to do it from the command line but once it is configured you can add the local mounted folder inside proxmox. 1) cluster->storage tab: Add Directory. 2) Remember to choose 'Backup' for contents. 3) Increase 'Max Backups' to the number of backups for each VM/CT you would like to keep.
Just popping in here to see if anyone has thoughts on offsite cloud backups for VMs and containers. I'm thinking of implementing a stack as follows: Backup: vzdump-> borg backup -> rclone to Amazon S3 or Backblaze B2 or similar. Restore: rclone from S3 or B2 or whatever to new host -> extract from borg repo -> pct restore or qmrestore as ...