Never Lose Data AGAIN! Level Up with the Power of Proxmox Backups

In this tutorial, we delve into the crucial aspect of setting up a backup strategy for your home lab, focusing on Proxmox. Addressing the often overlooked need for a robust backup system, we guide you through the process of establishing a Proxmox backup server. Exploring multiple approaches, including utilizing existing hardware like a Synology NAS or setting up a virtual machine on Proxmox, we ensure accessibility regardless of your setup. From downloading the Proxmox backup server ISO to configuring virtual machines, this comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge to safeguard your data effectively. Whether you're a seasoned Proxmox user or new to home lab setups, this tutorial offers valuable insights into establishing a reliable backup solution.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:14 Download Proxmox Backup Server ISO
2:54 Reviewing Existing Backup Solution
4:21 Upload PBS ISO To Synology
5:11 Creating VM on Synology
9:19 Switching Gears to Proxmox
10:50 Upload PBS ISO To Proxmox
11:34 Creating a VM On Proxmox
13:39 Configuring Proxmox Backup Server
16:59 Logging into the Backup Server
17:30 Configuring PBS Storage
19:03 Configuring Proxmox Backups (and Demonstrating a Restore)
25:09 Wrap Up

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[NightHawkATL]

I have been running a PBS server as bare metal for about 2 years and have had a few different iterations and all have been solid! I am glad they came out with it and made it simple to use. Another great video to help others with getting a great homelab setup!

[Silverstar]

I want you to know, I am really enjoying these proxmox videos. You've been very intentionally clear and instructional.

[Nemesislh]

This is awesome! I am trying to step up my proxmox game in my homelab (right now 1 cluster with 2 nodes) and this is great! Loving this proxmox series you are doing man!

[daniel]

Thanks man, this is top quality content!!. I'm really glad to watch your videos and keep finding more ways to improve my home lab.

I appreciate all the effort you put into creating these videos.

[eugeni_cat]

I have a cluster of four PVE and a PBS server in parallel.

Both backups and disaster restores are very fast and very easy to obtain.

Really, if a person wants to try PVE they should never do it without setting up a parallel PBS.

Congratulations on the channel.
Best regards from Barcelona (Spain) 😎

[TheJohnTyra]

This is fantastic! 😍 Thank you for creating this tutorial video!

[MarkConstable]

One of my PBS instances is a LXC container with 256MB ram (40% in use) and 4GB of storage (30% in use) and passed through a 1TB storage pool (33% in use). I installed PBS manually on top of a Debian/12 template.

[albertpauw]

You can also backup to e.g. a USB drive connected to your proxmox (or nfs). The main difference backing up through the Proxmox backup server is that you now have file restore, which you don't have in the backup on the Proxmox VME itself. I never though of using pbs on a Synology as VM, but it's a great idea, thank you.

[fucinevideo]

Very nice, thanks. Can you please confirm that the advantages of using PBS, instead of for example some different/default backup options such as NFS solutions, deals with the incremental nature of PBS backups, which implies minimizing the waste of remote storage (and also higher speed in backup tasks themselves)?

[oreoman]

How would you recommend doing a backup of the actual proxmox host(pve)?

[awesomearizona-dino]

Thanks for sharing, this is great info. Hope other things are going well. -Dino

[rz]

My Proxmox has containers installed through Portainer so they are not LXC containers. Can the Proxmox Backup Server backup these non-LXC containers too?

[drreality]

Thanks for the tutorial, my only gripe with PBS is that it doesn’t backup host os which is what you’d need in host failure!

[jamesmoore]

Just a minor note. At around 17:30, I don't think that this is overprovisioning, just the use of base-2 vs base-10 numbers. Notice that when creating a VM and setting the disk sizes at around 12:15, that it asks for the size in GiB, but in the PBS UI, it's showing GB / TB. 128 GiB = ~137 GB.

Just the fun of two different units that tend to be used interchangeably (on Windows, for storage they use the "GB" abreviation for storage when it's actually GiB. So at-least props to the Proxmox team for using the correct unit naming).

[Rockwolf]

Why not run PBS as either an LXC container or as a docker container on your NAS?

[weholmes]

Thanks so much for this detailed tutorial! Sounds like restoring from PBS is easy. Any potential issues to watch out for?

[jomijohn]

How to connects proxmox backup server over internet ( My Proxmox Server is in another location and Backup server is in another location ) ???

[primenetwork]

I have a question how do I get back up pve configuration

[Weeem]

Huh ... Sweet
Currently we have a network share on our NAS which Proxmox mounts as a VZDump backup location.
From there there the backup process is the same, but we don't need to have an additional VM running on the NAS side as it's handled by the network share.

Nice to see the official method of backup up tho and follow along with each step of setting it up :)

[aliasname]

question 'don't syology NAS's use raid controllers and won't that create problems setting up the PBS using ZFS' or does it not matter because it's on a VM'?