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Proxmox VE is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with ease.

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PBS to remote storage (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/proxmox

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Can anyone share if they are using PBS with remote backup storage only? I’d like to backup directly to an offsite location, so no backing up to a local drive and then syncing that to remote…

What are your considerations for restoring? I am hesitant to use PBS (on the same machine as my PVE) because with my current solution (restic), I only need to install PVE on a new machine and in addition, I’d need the static binary - and then I’m good to restore. If I’d use PBS, then I’d need to first install PVE, then PBS and only then I can restore…

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[–] ikidd 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried that, it didn't seem to work very well over a WAN link. Maybe it's gotten better, but I went back to a cheap old desktop AIO with a local drive, then had it remote sync to the offsite.

I guess it depends how you want to do it, but having a local copy of the backup to quickly restore from at LAN speeds seems better to me anyway, and I've certainly used it because it was available and easy. The remote sync is for the building burning down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you say „didn’t work very well“ do you mean performance was not good?

A local backup synced to cloud is a valid solution, it’s just that I’d like to skip the local part because I feel it’s superfluous for my usecase.

Up- and downlink are fast enough and because the data only changes very slowly, storing deltas in a remote backup location should be fast enough.

[–] ikidd 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn't reliable. Maybe they've fixed that, but I couldn't trust it the way it worked then. It's been a couple years though, so there's that.

I guess it's your call about whether a local is superfluous, but I find it pretty useful.