proxmox backup server

Also it only took me a week or so to figure out proxmox, which then allows for the use of Proxmox backup server, which is a seriously killer system. The deduplication can seriously reduce the amount of space your backups take up so it makes backing up your data to a 2TB or even 1TB SSD actually viable depending on what you’re backing up.

Spin up and administer all of our local services like Grafana, Vaultwarden, aforementioned backups, Nextcloud, Bookstack - in Debian VMs in Proxmox, with scheduled backups to Proxmox Backup Server.

I would only use the storage pc as backup server and keep the storage itself on the compute node.

The PBS “server” is an Intel N150 mini PC with a 4TB USB SSD as storage for backups. ... It’s idle 99.9% of the time and even when it’s doing a backup, or performing tasks like verifying backups it’s using virtually no power. So why a separate machine for this? If the proxmox machine goes down, I can still get to my backups easily on a working machine.

Proxmox makes it so incredibly easy to move hardware. Wither with proxmox backup server or snapshots.

If backup was my main goal, I would probably install Proxmox's PBS and add Samba shares for basic NAS functionality to the ZFS pool. I don't know about you, but I have a lot of the same data on a few of my computers and PBS will do file-level deduplication, so it saves a ton of space.

Yeah, Proxmox with PBS as a VM. You can virtualize Routers aß Well and Connect to your VPN solution of choice.

Leverage PBS for efficient VM/LXC backups and potentially as a destination for Unraid data.