How to setup PBS to backup your Proxmox VMs and Containers

In this video I go over all the basics with PBS. I go over how to setup PBS, create and restore backups in Proxmox, and what to keep an eye on in PBS.

Let me know if you have any more questions about PBS in the comments, or topics that I could go into more detail about

00:00 Intro
00:31 Where PBS can be installed
01:01 Recommended hardware
03:38 Installing PBS
06:16 Configuring PBS
07:50 Setting up disks and repositories
09:17 Adding PBS to Proxmox VE
14:36 Managing Backup in PBS
18:34 Restoring Backups
20:07 Things to keep an eye on in PBS
21:43 Conclusion

[ThunderingCreation]

Great tutorial, Straight to the point with no vague explanations & confusing tangents, clear and concise. Everything a good tutorial should be. Thank you!

[irreverentgeek]

Straight up, Excellent overview of PBS. Sweet, straight and to the point. Thanks!

[brotherbeagle]

Great tutorial. You present the necessary material in a clear and coherent manner and you cover related information without bogging down the flow. Much appreciated!

[JasonJonesoriginal]

One of the best tutorial videos ever. Very thorough and explains every question I had

[pavlovsky]

Nice video. It would be cool to have a part 2 to discuss configuring tape backup and doing things like using proxmox-backup-client on remote hosts to setup backup jobs.

[christophostermayer]

I just love how the protect button is TOTALLY right next to the delete button. 😂

Anyways thanks for this awesome video, it got me in track with my first PBS in minutes!

[maxg]

Awesome! No fluff; very comprehensive; always explaining "why". Love it.

[MaxTheDog]

This has worked great for me. Sadly I had accidentally loosened my power cable for my proxmox server by stepping on the cable and accidentally turned it off.

I had to start from scratch.

I purchased another server to run pbs and this helped me add it to my pve and schedule backups/pruning/garbage collections without issues. Next time, I will be prepared!

Thanks!! 😊

[derekp]

Thanks, helped me get my PBS mounted on the proxmox cluster, appreciate the vid.

[MrBarbinator]

Another insightful video, cheers mate, love ya work 🍻

[frnzis]

I also use PBS on minipc nuc for my homelab cluster; It works great!

[omarrizo]

Hey, thanks for all these proxmox vids. They are straight to the point and easy to understand, thanks again! :)

[aliihsandonmezer]

That's all I need... I installed as you suggested and works like a charm. Thank you ❤

[horst.zimmermann]

I would love to see a video on how to get your backups back if you have to reinstall Proxmox Backup Server.
Love your videos, simple and easy to understand

[chrisumali]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[cambian]

Thank you! Very helpful and straight-forward!

[martyg]

folks is how you make a tutorial. 10/10, liked and sub'd.

[jothain]

Huge thanks for your vids and for helpful comments you've given. Made PBS server inside old 2820 NUC's "secondary" pve. Very good overview. Only thing I was hoping from PBS was to it would've been possible to mount my raid NAS box and push backups occasionally from PBS to it, but it looks like its not possible and I understand why. Not that big of a thing as I can still push critical CT/VM dumps from my main PVE to network NAS share anyway just to be sure and obviously I should just add more storage instead of one hdd to my PBS server anyway. But its start and now I atleast have one external backup of my main pve and have option to use like few CT's on this NUC pve if I encounter main pve failure or something like that. Thanks again, you've been great help for me 👍

[romayojr]

wish you went over how to configure TrueNas NFS share to the datastore to store backups on it instead of local storage on the PBS

[XtianApi]

I like my compromise. I run PBS on a VM on a node and I write the data to a Nas for the backups. Then I take backups of the VM configuration itself and also save it to that Nas so if needed I can import the VM to a different node link the data and restore the down hypervisor. The other option is to run the entire server off of the very low capabilities of the nas in terms of vitualization. Either would work but I think my solution is pretty elegant right now