Getting the most out of Proxmox Backup Server: Backing up other data, Offsite syncs, and more

In this video I go over how to get the most out of Proxmox Backup server by showing how to use many of the advanced features. Some of the features I cover include backing data other than VMs and Containers, Encryption, and offsite syncs. I also test performance with different hardware configurations, and go over some tips to increase performance.

00:00 Intro
00:43 Users and permissions
04:57 Namespaces
08:46 Backing up non PVE data
20:03 Restoring non PVE data
25:54 Encrypting backups
28:54 Syncing PBS servers
36:02 PBS technical details
39:02 Performance testing
41:37 Tuning and hardware recommendations
43:16 Conclusion

[ElectronicsWizardry]

When doing research for this video I noticed that doing cloud backups of PBS can be expensive due to the way PBS works. I was thinking of starting a service with hosted offsite PBS backups, and unlike other solutions, the service would be built around PBS backups and have the hardware required for PBS to work well while keeping the price down. Let me know if this idea seems interesting to you or if you have any thoughts by replying to this comment or sending me an email.

[aliihsandonmezer]

Thank you very much for the concentrated information. You are changing the way our production system works . I do really appreciate your efforts .

[fiveangle]

With my light home server, I run PBS as a CT on the host PVE, syncing to a PBS CT running on my friend's host PVE across the WAN. One thing I haven't done is test the difference between backing up the local PBS CT to the remote PBS vs syncing the datastore as I do now. Might be interesting because it's only for disaster recovery that I ever expect to restore from the remote PBS vs restoring from the local PBS CT running on the host PVE. Great video on PBS and definitely helped in understanding more about the namespace features and how they could be used. Thanks !

[sklise]

appreciate this. Love the sections as well. 100% helpful.

[jacobmar]

This was super helpful. On point and the perfect density. Thank you!

[RickEstrada]

Just found this, looking to setup a remote PBS at my dad’s house. This is perfect, thanks so much!

[Excited-IT-Architect]

@ElectronicsWizardry: Great information and so useful for a lot of my use cases - many thanks! I would be interested in what's the best method to backup a PVE-node (w/o any VMs or LXCs), just the node itself. You were asking for other topics for further PBS-vids - that could be one.

[camaycama]

I've wrote a python script with a nice wizard to backup and restore proxmox pve host to PBS. Unfortunately I've lost it on a lost volume. Next time I do this I'll push it to gitlab asap.

[GeoffSeeley]

I'm interested in the tape support aspect. Can one backup to disk and then to tape or is it limited to one destination?

[Davetrack]

Great Proxmox content I setup a Proxmox server and I'm running some vm's I backed them up on a USB drive after watching one of your videos. All backed up perfect the trouble I have is I removed the usb drive from the server with out un mounting it I guess. Now the server is showing backup(eve) status unknown with a question mark. If I reinsert the usb drive it acts as if it's never been in with no directory and still saying backup(pve) with status unknown. How can I remove this from the PVE listing as it's stopping me making vm's now? If I click on it it says directory no mounted how do I remove this ? Any help would be much appreciated thanks in advance.

[jothain]

Quite new to PM ad´nd have one small 1L homeserver based on it and I have old celeron NUC that I used as home NAS for years. PBS seems too much for me to put on that NUC. I suppose I should just use it as "pve2" and backup to it, though I'm wondering if I should make cluster out of them or does backuping to another pve work just fine. Any opinions about the scenario?

[reesewilson]

36:00 what is this network monitoring tool?

edit: found nload

[mikekane]

Thank you for your videos! Please consider upgrading your microphone!