How To Install Proxmox Backup Server on Your Synology NAS (Easier Than It Looks)

[@TechMeOut5]

Mount NFS command (copy & paste): echo "192.168.20.4:/volume1/Proxmox/pbs /mnt/synology nfs vers=4,nouser,atime,auto,retrans=2,rw,dev,exec 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

[@miles267]

This doesn't work for me. When I try to mount -a I still get a mount.nfs connection refused.

[@ArnieHolder]

This worked perfectly for me! After I set up my PVE nodes, I was looking at the PBS as possibly a more robust backup solution for the entire nodes and running it as a VM on my Synology was a great idea. Usually it seems like I miss one thing that I have to go back and start from scratch to get things ironed out, but this worked the first time and it's busy backing up right now. Thank you for posting this great content!

[@TechMeOut5]

You're welcome!

[@WunderTechTutorials]

This is an absolutely awesome video for anyone using Proxmox. I really have to implement this - just backing up my VMs to an NFS share right now but this (with the mounted NFS drive) is so much better!

[@TechMeOut5]

Thanks Frank. Yep, pbs is awesome and the benetits are amazing. The file level restore is so cool

[@peterjaypriest]

Thank you for an excellent, step-by-step walkthrough of PBS integration with Synology and Proxmox. I can confirm these steps worked on my test environment. Great Job, and thanks again for sharing!!

[@TechMeOut5]

Glad you liked it!

[@jenniferw8963]

I was looking to do this a year ago but found no guide like to pull it off! I love it and can't wait to implement this. I didn't know PBS had file level restore! I LOVE IT! :) Another great thing is the read only synology snapshots you can do on proxmox share so you are protected from ransomware etc :)

[@TechMeOut5]

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[@jenniferw8963]

@@TechMeOut5 Thanks, I subscribed :) I

[@zippi777]

Good job man, it's also a great idea to optimize everything! Thanks again! I'm waiting for the next optimization!

[@TechMeOut5]

Glad you liked it

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Excellent video Avi! Thanks for sharing.

[@TechMeOut5]

Thanks Tony. I appreciate you watching. Have a great day

[@jenswymeersch9653]

I tested this fstab procedure in the past (same guide) but for some reason. It started writing on the PBS allocated disk. Not sure why that happened ?

[@chenks76]

@TechMeOut5 i have a mounting the NFS share. so i have created the NFS share on the synology (identical to yours), and them mounted it in fstab, however after manual mounting (and rebooting PBS), i can't see any of the contents of the NFS share in PBS. i suspect this is a permissions issue but not sure where specifically. does there need to be a corresponding "backup" user on the NAS itself? i usually mount shared folders from the NAS using CIFS (which i have done on the main PVE), and that works fine, but i haven't used NFS before.

[@okanerdem]

The synology capacity is seen 27,57gb and afterthat 8.61 tb what happened there? it's also seen for me like virtual hdd capacity, what happening 17:59

[@zippi777]

Hi again, I watched the whole video again and I have a question: at minute 18:00 I see that the total space of your Synology-NFS is 27.57 GB... is this normal? I mean I was expecting a few TB as it resides on your Synology NAS right? Is the value correct?

[@ollib3749]

Yes you are right. I also had the problem when I set up two NFS connections on my Synology NAS. After I deleted a connection it worked fine.

[@miles267]

@@ollib3749 how do you overcome the issue when mount -a command does not work because connection is refused?

[@ketracker7302]

@zippi777 Did you ever figure this out? I seem to be running into the same issue where it just shows using the storage of the VM not the NFS Share Folder.

[@miles267]

@@ketracker7302yes, I ultimately had to edit the fstab file to remove previous problematic entries that were being added to it. There should only be one entry.

[@ketracker7302]

Strangely I got mine to work by dropping the vers parameter on the nfs mount.

[@ericlecoutre]

Hi, this video is awesome and this is exactely what I need. Unfortunately after PBS install, laucnh of the VMS is stucked at disk clean step (files/blocks). I tried to install a previous version of PBS but that does not solve issue. I see that this may be due to Linux kernel. (maybe also due to some parameters in Bios?) Sole difference I see with you might be DMS version, I am under 20240116 7.2.1-69057 release 4 (still the latest as of today). Also NAS mode: DS920+. Any idea/suggestion?

[@ericlecoutre]

After having VM drive type for SATA it worked. WIll right now continue tutorial . Much thanks!