Is anybody running Proxmox Backup Server? I am considering installing it on a test box. Is it worth installing and taking a look at? I have 3 Proxmox servers now and am happy with the how they backup and restore.
Proxmox Backup Server seems so elegant. I have been running it for a while now with no issues. It saves an enormous amount of space with dedup compared to my previous plain old vzdump solution. And I really like the ease with which you can verify the backups on a periodic basis to have peace of mind that the backups will actually restore if needed. It would be nice if STH could do a review on PBS.
I'm curious about this as well. Currently using 2 ESXi 6.7 hosts in a cluster with an HA ZFS pool on 2 CentOS8 hosts using NFS mount. Also have a veeam license (already paid for - sunk cost.) One thing that got me to dump proxmox several years ago, was the backup system was rudimentary. I can't count how many times I needed to recover a specific file or directory from a guest. Veeam spins up a linux appliance, and provides an explorer window on your windows desktop to surf the backup instance and recover whatever you need. It *looks* like that works with PBS, is that correct?
I haven't ever tried to restore a single file, but it certainly looks possible in the documentation. But it is via the command line instead of an explorer-type window. You would open a shell and navigate around or mount the backup as a FUSE device and access it as a read-only disk. That might make it scritptable, although not as intuitive/easy as a quick point-and-click to recover a file.
Ah, thanks. Yrah, it would be nice to have a GUI, but the interactive shell seems adequate. I'm going to try to spin up a VE+PB under vmware and check it out. Thanks!
My bad. I didn't notice it at first, but if you select the "File Restore" button instead of the "Restore" button from the list of available backups on the PBS GUI, it gives a navigable file tree that you can download to your local machine (the one you are browsing with).
I have been eyeing this for a while now, I would be very interested in seeing what it can do, and why they consider it worth 449 EUR/year.
Honestly I don't know too much about backup solutions, having relied on various sorts of scripts to get by.
So it would be interesting to see what a product like this can do, and honestly what is considered state of the art in this area.
I don't see cloud integration on the feature list or roadmap. It does have a remote sync feature where you can duplicate or pull backups to/from other PBS servers, but no mention of AWS/Google/Azure type of integration.
havent tried the PBS yet seems interesting but is it possible to run it every hour? without the vm freezing up? currently running my backups using pve-zync every hour works flawless but the PBS feature of restoring files really got me interested
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