Subj : Re: ProxMox, NAS & backups - oh my.
To   : 2twisty
From : paulie420
Date : Tue Jul 05 2022 19:43:52

 2t>  pa> PVE VMs. However, PBS [ProxMox Backup Server] prefers you to have a
 2t>  pa> physical drive for those backups... since its running ON the PVE, tha
 2t> 
 2t> Maybe I'm misreading your post...  But it sounds like you are trying to
 2t> put your backup storage in the same physical box as the VMs you want to
 2t> back up.
 2t> 
 2t> That's a really bad idea.  If you have a hardware failure, you could
 2t> lose both the VMs *and* the backups in one fell swoop.

So I was going to mount an external NFS to /mnt/somewhere and backup that way, but have since learned that its not suggested or supported by ProxMox Backup Server... I now know.

I [like to] use Raspberry Pi's for simple server stuff, and theres no Proxmox Backup Server for ARM, so... I'm thinking about how I want to tackle backups. 

Currently I'm just using PVEs Backups tab to backup ProxMox VMs, and thinking about setting up a Raspberry Pi w/ NFS drives attached to go in and pull out those PVE backups.... I Guess I should plan on using some x86 machine to run PBS and get it running a bit better - but me thinking I'm the king Linux sysOp and all, I think I can do it myself. 

I understand some of the benefits of using PBS and hopefully will get there one day... thanks for the response, as I wasn't aware that I was attempting to set it up backwards. :P Appreciated.



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