Subj : Re: ProxMox, NAS & backups - oh my.
To   : paulie420
From : vorlon
Date : Fri Jul 08 2022 11:41:27

Hi Paulie420,

 > Oh I understand what yer suggesting to do - instead of simply using my
 > NAS/NFS drives [which, btw, PBS says CAN be done - but they don't
 > support it...] I could setup some Pi w/ iSCSI and use that to mount to
 > the PBS VM that live within PVE.... ok.
 > 
 > I'll look into that, as currently I was just gonna setup a Pi to pull
 > the PVE backups to. I haven't nuked the PBS VM yet, so - will do some
 > reading. Thanks for the suggestion.

The proxmox backup your using from it's web interface uses what's called
vzdump to make a backup. It can be scripted to do so much more.

I have one of mine doing a remote nfs backup a couple of times a day.
Along with a local dump to a spare drive in the server at different times.
The crontab event just runs different scripts at different times.


crontab:
0 4   * * * root /root/scripts/lnx.sh
0 8   * * * root /root/scripts/lnx.sh


fstab on proxmox server:

# remote system with nfs share
192.168.1.254:/var/nfsroot/syd /mnt/syd nfs rw,async,hard,intr,noexec 0 0

The the nfs backup script:

#/bin/bash
#
# copy a new nfs vzdump config
cp /root/scripts/vzdump.syd /etc/vzdump.conf
mount /mnt/syd
vzdump 100
vzdump 101
vzdump 104
umount /mnt/syd


vzdump.conf:

tmpdir: /bck/tmp
dumpdir: /mnt/syd
mode: snapshot
keep-last: 20
remove: 1
compress: gzip
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\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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