Subj : ProxMox, NAS & backups - oh my.
To   : paulie420
From : niter3
Date : Mon Dec 05 2022 21:54:28

 pa> How does that work? So you run VMware on top of whatever machine/system
 pa> you're using at the house, and then just load the virtual hard drives
 pa> from your NAS?

It has it's own backup tool called "Active Backup for Business". It's pretty damn easy to setup. You just add a the vmware hypervisor type in your credentials, and magic. It sees your VM's. You give it a schedule and a location to backup to.

 pa> Well I do have a large NAS, a ProxMox server (with all the production VMs
 pa> inside that need to be backed up..), and several other systems around the
 pa> house... Home Assistant, an iMac, etc etc... my PBS backup server backs
 pa> all of those up; including the NAS. 

I'm not familiar with PBS. I just backup everything to my Synology. VM's as I mentioned, plus I setup the Synology so I can do mac backups using Time Machine.

You can always build a NAS. Some like TrueNas... I have bigger headache to fry, so I decided to purchase one and just spend my time setting things up vs maintaining another server... Plus these use very little wattage.

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