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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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Need help understanding the point of PBS (self.proxmox)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cavedildo to c/proxmox

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I installed Proxmox Backup Server in a VM on my nas to see what all the fuss was about. I messed with it for a but but then the install got botched (not PBS's fault) and I didn't bother messing with it anymore. What I have been doing is, on each of my nodes, just setting up scheduled backups of VMs to a share on my NAS. I can't figure out why using PBS would be any better that just doing that but people seem to like it. I only have to do this once on each node. Could anyone enlighten me as to what I am not seeing in PBS that makes it better?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the integration, dedup, garbage collection as a whole. I personally love my PBS server.

[–] non_burglar 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. The options to set retention across multiple jobs is great, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is a lot to love- dedup, garbage collection, pruning/retention, sync jobs, verification, etc. All of that dwarfs the normal backup process for proxmox itself.