Subj : ProxMox, NAS & backups - oh my.
To   : All
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Jul 04 2022 18:34:01

Some of you know that I recently moved 2o bbS over to the ProxMox server - and that has been wonderful. Its running great, got all the little bugs ironed out [mostly!] and am enjoying both the .qcow format that the VM is saved in, and PVE [ProxMox] backups that run easily and are easy to handle.

I also have a NAS, still running on a Raspberry Pi, that will shortly find ITS way over to the ProxMox host... when I created the NAS I was struggling a bit with understanding permissions and... does openmediavault need a USER account to give permissions to the bbS box to read/write to the NFS share, and... just exactly grasping how it w0rks. Got it setup - but wonder if I could have tighter settings, or do better with fully understanding how those permissions work...

Today I find ProxMox Backup Server. It looks GREAT, and it can do automated things much better than simply using the backups tab in PVE... so I'm excited to use it as a solution to do all backups for my various PVE VMs. However, PBS [ProxMox Backup Server] prefers you to have a physical drive for those backups... since its running ON the PVE, thats not super easy to do - while I could give one of my server drives to it, I don't really want to make that change... I don't think. It will accept NAS/NFS mounts as a DataShare, but I'm again running into permissions issues. PBS won't let me mount the thing - even after I created a SEPARATE NFS share and made sure it had read/write perms... I know I'm just not understanding things...

Just venting, not asking for explanations - I would accept any 'newbie' websites that people might suggest; but I get the best information directly from the services above's documentation. It certainly could be easier, but I hope in the end I can create a setup that is secure and ISN'T just set to wide open... the controls within all of these systems is great; you just have to be a knowledgable sysOp. :P Thats the hard bit.

Having fun in techno-land... still learning how to string em' all together.



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