Proxmox Backup Server Saves You Money And Time!

Move away from manual backups in Proxmox VE, and use Proxmox Backup Server instead. The use of deduplication means that you'll save valuable space and time when performing backups.

In this video I'll show how to deploy Proxmox Backup Server, how to mount an SMB share from TrueNAS, and how to integrate it into your existing Proxmox VE to backup your VMs.

Video Commands:

00:00 - Introduction to Proxmox Backup Server & backup practices
02:34 - Download Proxmox Backup Server
06:06 - Create VM & Installation
11:25 - Proxmox Backup Server Web GUI
12:44 - Adding CIFS for SMB Mount
20:24 - Using the SMB Mount in Proxmox VE
24:18 - Outro

[rickhernandez]

Do you live in one of the rooms in my house?

More than once I'm working on setting up something in my home lab, and either that day or the next day you drop a video on *EXACTLY* what I'm working on.

This is truly the most complete, thorough, and easy to understand channel on the internet, bar none.

Nice job Jim.

[CraigGivant]

I have been running PBS for awhile now and was never able to get the storage located on a network drive. Your Mount and FSTAB commands were just what the doctor ordered and I was able to successful create a VM and mount the storage to my NAS. I can now get rid of the outdated Unraid container I had resorted to. Thanks for this!

[maxg]

This must be one of the best channels when it comes to setting up things. Well explained, any omissions corrected. Easy to follow. Very comprehensive. I love it. Thank you.

[jeffrisdon]

Thanks for this! Could never figure out how to get this to work with my truenas shares...until I saw this video!! Exellent! Thank you!

[Muddysmind]

Very well done, thanks. Easy to follow, no fluff, calm, well thought out.

[JorgeGarciaM]

HA! Brilliant! At last someone explaining the benefits of the PBS and the step-by-step configuration. Thank you, Jim!

[sking]

The funny part here is that despite the fact that Jim explains this perfectly, i still managed to F it up, lol amazing. Thanks Jim

[yas-kj]

Thanks, Jim. Your tutorials are always clear and very helpful. Have you tried doing the same thing with NFS? I’ve tried it several times, but I keep encountering permission errors!

[BromZlab]

Verry good Jim! Yet again an easy to follow guide.. This is verry useful

[happy]

Great video, thank you. I'm from Hong Kong, and English is not my native language, but I can hear quite clearly.

[adamturtle]

Thank you very much for the video. It helped me a lot and is exactly what I was looking for. I was not able to set up an SMB share in the proxmox backup server. The backup is relatively easy in proxmox VE, but I just couldn't manage it in PBS. With your help, I will try it out tomorrow and then set it up in the terminal. Thank you very much again.

[yanickg]

Nice one! Worked on the first go. Will re-use the smb share/ credentials method for my plex vm server. Thanks!

[mankala]

I think you may have described differential backup instead of deduplicationn. I think dedupe goes further - if you have 5 debian vms, dedupe will only store one copy of anything that's the same between the vms (eg app binaries, conf files, copy of your pub key, etc). Dedupe also causes differential backup as a byproduct.

[CGGSOLTEC]

You save me !!! i was having problems with permission denied and i did what u say with the fix and now i can see the datastore, but i dont know why the size of the datastore is less than my pool size i will see, thanks a lot

[NeilHyndman]

This video was amazing - thank you for creating it.

[JPEaglesandKatz]

Your videos are absolute amazing... Detailed and accurate and helpful!!!

[KrastyoKrastev]

Thanks! I followed this video step by step and all works. Very helpfull!

[jaymax]

Took me a while to get it working, but I had to just create a new user on my synology for it to work! Thanks for the video

[PaulShadwell]

Thankyou for this, very helpful. I just set this up for my initial demo setup. Incidentally, I had to switch the SMB mount to v2.0 as it seems neither my Unraid server nor my Synology NAS support SMB v3.0 yet.

[-rm-rf]

Perfect timing as alway 😂 I will definitely look to set this up asap when I have my network figured out 😅