Proxmox Backup Server: Full Getting Started Guide!

[@jeremystevenson7399]

switched to proxmox backup about a week ago thanks to your video... Ive been a longtime proxmox user for my home lab and now i feel dumb for not using their backup solution. Thanks for the video bro!

[@skytree21]

This is really the greatest tutorial for proxmox ever. Deep Respect from south korea.

[@michaelhess6854]

It's a good idea to put a valid cert on ALL internal systems. It's a good IOC if it fails when you login, or setup a logging solution to check the cert regularly and alert if it's expired or changed.

[@pauldowling2160]

Thanks so much. Due to your straightforward explanations I was able to setup my pbs.

[@davidadams421]

A masterclass in PBS. Outstanding.

[@aptdep7860]

Thank you, the course is very good. However, as in many similar courses, there is no information about configuring storage, especially when creating a cluster on different storage configurations. In fact, it is a very important topic, because many people have difficulties with this.

[@paulp5025]

Straightforward, clear and to the point, thank you very much.

[@John-77777]

The best tutorial on PBS! Thanks

[@michaelwaterman3553]

Thanks Jay! Got my first Proxmox Backup server running now 🙂

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Great video! Did the steps as you laid them out and had no issues with backup Thank you !

[@jonathanrider4417]

Thanks for this one Jay - keep it up! They say there are two kinds of people; those who backup and those who wish they had backed up. I am enjoying learning Proxmox and regrettably have to admit I'm in the latter group. Moving forward I hope to backup well and often!

[@vindicatedafi]

Ever think about doing a series for different Linux certifications out there? Linux+ LPIC or RHCSA? Love the content you are my go to for learning all kinds of Linux stuff. Keep up the great work!

[@HeshamElGazzaz]

check his centos playlist

[@tomdonovan8480]

Hi Jay, I think you have done a great job explaining the basics of Proxmox VE & Backup software.

[@robbuurman1667]

Yet another great video. Thanks Jay

[@cvkitcarclubnl]

Thanks for the very nice demo. I did the same and it works great!

[@JohnSmith-yz7uh]

One thing thats missing is restoring files to the original VM, you can only download the file you want to restore. You still have to move it to the original VM Its fine for homeusers but in an enterprise environment it comes up more often and you might want to restore directly to the VM

[@andreasheckel1061]

IMHO in an enterprise env you probably should never restore a backup by just blindly overwrite a production VM ;-)

[@JohnSmith-yz7uh]

@@andreasheckel1061 you don't have to overwrite it, if you could append _RESTORED to the folder or something

[@bobapp3045]

very nice breakdown! i am going to lab this and see how it works in my work environment !

[@TradersTradingEdge]

Fantastic, thank you Jay. 👍

[@SynthuaVids]

Thanks so much for this tutorial.

[@ivansavitsky449]

I think the very secret password can be seen at c.a. 8:03. Hope it's there just for the demo purpose.

[@mithubopensourcelab482]

Your eyes are awesome...

[@Xenotypic]

caught that as well

[@thomas8954]

thanks for the very good tutorial...but one question i have.. how to backup the PVE host itself?

[@Innocentdarkness72]

Thanks, for this video ! have a good week sir...

[@edbpadilla]

Hi! I learned so much from your content. May I ask if you could do a video to backup and restore the Proxmox VE itself?

[@Sheyk871]

Thats would be a great video!

[@SamHozan]

Thank you very much. You saved me a lot of time. I really appreciate it and God bless you.

[@jojolization]

a nice video, thanks. a quick question I always feel confused : what is the main difference between the VM clone and the PBS restore to a new VM?

[@neail5466]

30:15 -- if you are wondering where the root@pam came from ?? Goto access control, and you will find the realm as 'pam' .

[@mithubopensourcelab482]

Awesome information and extra ordinary efforts are really appreciated. We are using PBS in production environment and found to be beyond our expectations. The best feature is incremental backup which hardly takes time. This feature is very useful when you have VM's are of large sizes. Earlier we were unable to complete backup sheer due to size factor in available 8 hour window. But now that problem is completely resolved. Though a few questions / queries. a. What if PBS serves to two different cluster ? What happens to their identical VM or CT numbers ? b. Is any backup client available for windows ? c. What if we configure PBS as vm on Proxmox itself but with external repository to store backup like NFS on Nas. ?

[@nevermetme]

a: use different data stores for each cluster b: not at the moment, let's see what the future will bring c: I guess performance will not be great and in case of a disaster you have more steps as you first need to setup the PBS VM, get access to the datastore again before you can restore the actual VMs you are interested in

[@fousay]

Love your content…I have a question, I am planning to implement this in my cluster but I am having an issue with the difference between adding NFS Shared storage and this backup Server? Whats the difference? Does the server make the snap shots restore faster or something?

[@NapatKantanon]

Thank you for this wonderful video, It would be perfect if Proxmox Backup Server can backup Windows clients (physical/file level) as well.

[@jeremystevenson7399]

perhaps use folder redirection to a SMB share on a machine hosted by pro xmox. Personally I create small vms on my cluster then point everything to individual datasets in the zfs array. I would think you could do the same with windows + smb + proxmox backup

[@RandomNullpointer]

Perhaps you can use the Linux subsystem on Windows. I believe it should work.

[@LarsBerntropBos]

Why did you skip Realms and ZFS? Particularly easy ZFS support makes Proxmox Backup Server amazing

[@vat4n]

Very useful information. Thank you!

[@MarkConstable]

I had no idea the client could back up non-VM/CT files. Unfortunately, the current 2.0.10 version of proxmox-backup-client in the AUR won't build, otherwise I'd be using this from my Manjaro/KDE laptop direct to my little PBS server... rather than a rsync backup to a dedicated "storage" VM and then back that VM up to PBS.

[@leonlee9518]

Such a greate video !

[@tonyc2227]

can you use Proxmox Backup Server with timemachine to backup a mac?

[@edbouhl3100]

At 95 Euros/year/cpu socket plus 20% value added tax (VAT) = 114 Euro ($120 annually) I might purchase the lowest cost Proxmox support package. But the Backup Server lowest cost subscription is 449 Euros + 20% VAT ($570 annually). At that price I’d probably stay with the non-production version and modify /etc/apt/sources.list as recommended in the ‘Proxmox VE Administration Guide’.

[@bertnijhof5413]

Interesting, but my backup server is 32 bits; 1C2T; 3.0GHz with 2GB DDR. Storage is IDE 3.5" (250+320GB) and SATA 2.5" (320+320GB). It runs FreeBSD 13.0 and OpenZFS 2.0 on my 2003 HP D530 SFF motherboard with Pentium 4 HT in a Comaq Evo case with Windows 98SE activation code :). The 600W power supply is new from xTech (DOP800 ~$18) with 2 SATA and 2 Molex plugs. It runs since Jun 2019 and it is powered on for ~1 hour/week, so it adds say 1 week to the SMART power-on hours each year..

[@yuriw777]

Great video! Does it make sense to use a backup client to backup a pve server node?

[@carlossoriano4010]

Awesome video! 🕺🙏

[@WorldOfPPG]

Hello Jay, I watched all your videos on Proxmox and this one as well. Your videos are very clean and to the point. Thank you for that you doing amazing job. I do have one question about Proxmox Backup Server. does the physical server/box have to be on local network or it could be located anywhere in the world ? I Understand that you may be laughing to this question but it is all new to me 🙂 ? or Even diferently asked similar questio....Can PBS be set up on local network and then plugged in in different part of world ?

[@SamHozan]

Thanks!

[@shajidtharammal6384]

very informative

[@nyantairelaxation3209]

Backup Container while container ON is allowed? What better backup CT while ON or OFF?

[@attutorials2121]

Hey Jay! Can you please do a tutorial on Bash scripting? I checked on your channel that you had a series on Bash scripting, but its of 2013, basically 8 years old! Can you please tell if that series is still valid today so that I can follow it. If its not please consider making a new series on Bash scripting. Thanks for your amazing content. I really learn a lot from you!

[@bardus_hobus]

If you can back up to your truenas , then what is the benefit of using proxmox backup server if it’s just a storage center?

[@javierpalumbo9970]

Great Video!!! very useful. Thank you!!

[@panduancloud4699]

Hi, can this PBS be a solution for backing up data from a VPS in the cloud? I search backup management tools for backup our docker container volume, but the docker container are hosted on VPS in Cloud Provider like linode, etc. Or maybe do you have suggestions for my case ? thank you.

[@nuvotion-live]

I’m wondering this too

[@brierepooc8987]

I am at such a toss up. I can't decide what to use. I have Vmware ESXi with some production VM's in my homelab. I don't want to pay for the license or the VMUG subscription as of right now. I don't know if I should go back to proxmox and just my VM's over. Suggestions welcome.

[@dinocamarda7445]

Great video, could you show how to add NFS storage to proxmox backups server? Thank you

[@artemkhmil]

Great and useful video!

[@michaelshaytech]

This was awesome. Thank you

[@lonesomewalker]

Hi Jay, you should do something about your "Hapiness!!" ;-)

[@JayJay-ki4mi]

I have 24 cores, 256GB RAM and 100TB storage. Is that enough?

[@maherkhalil007]

Great video. my question is can I restore VM to different node in the cluster or I can restore VMs to same server after proxmox re-installation?

[@Sheyk871]

you can restore to another node...

[@mehmetkaraman3710]

i really like your intro jingle

[@LearnLinuxTV]

I'm glad, it took me a while to get a custom one.

[@Zwiesel66]

Great guide, thank you, but I miss one important topic: How do you use the backup client with a cron job without user interaction ? At the moment I use BorgBackup which supports ssh, but as far as I know the Proxmox backup client does not.

[@BilalBilion-em2yl]

Good job

[@ansomeBob]

I couldn't get past adding the pbs @31:02 I get an error "create storage failed: pbs: error fetching datastores - 400 Bad Request (500) The only difference I can see is my dialogue box has an extra field named "Namespace" which has Root in it. Anyone have any suggestions?

[@Audiman0aha]

Same issue

[@valerykolganov9565]

Thank you for this video ! Can I attach an iscsi target to PBS and doing backup on that ?

[@hpsfresh]

You don’t have to get public access to get cert from let’s encrypt in proxmox solution. There is dns check.

[@iamcertifiable2306]

That's pretty cool!

[@businiao837]

Great video!

[@strachanbrad]

Great content! I would love it if you used VIM on all your videos. I think the majority of your viewers either use VIM, or are familiar with. I think a veteran user like yourself has the ability to drop an Easter egg here and there with out focusing on VIM itself. We can learn without you explicitly teaching it. Like a rhyme with in a song. Thank you very much for your content. The community appreciates you.

[@brierepooc8987]

The future is Nano

[@ken3marcus]

Very helpful!

[@cdaher78]

Great tutorial!!!

[@dangaines405]

Great content! Thanks.

[@myozone]

How would you select between two networks, 1g and 10g on the same backup server and Proxmox servers ? - I would guess by IP but not sure.

[@jaxwylde2139]

Recently subscribed and have learned a lot from your videos...Thank you. QQ re: SSD storage on Proxmox. I've read reports suggesting that Proxmox destroys SSD drives very quickly due to high level of writes to the drives. I understand that using SSDs for the backup server wouldn't have the same issue as using SSD's as the primary boot/data partitions of a Proxmox VE server. *Do you use SSD's for your Proxmox VE environment (ZFS?) or do you use spinning rust drives?* Thanks again.

[@jeremystevenson7399]

I havnt experienced that issue with it killing my drives. My SSDs are cache drive for the zfs array (4 year old samsung evo pros). I also have a 4 node cluster of lenovo thin pcs with NVMe theyve been going for 2 plus years running 24/7. IMO I think using your ssds as boot is wasting alot of good IO. I would say you should stick to "enterprise" class drives if you plan on running server load on SSDs. boot/root = 3 10k SAS in Z2 1 10k cheetah as a log drive 2 ssds as cache drives

[@jaxwylde2139]

@@jeremystevenson7399 Thanks for that. I recently purchased a HP Elitedesk 800 G2 mini (16GB RAM, 256GB SSD + 1 M.2 NVMe slot). Great little device for the $'s. I upgraded the SSD to a 500 GB Samsung Evo 870, and installed Proxmox. At the moment I'm just playing around with it in my home lab (Docker containers inside LXC's and VM's) along with Portainer, and Rancher (K3s). Seeing as I only have one drive, I'm using EXT4. At some point I'll play around with ZFS, but will need a device with option for multiple drives. I have considered using the NVMe slot as additional drive, but was worried about wear. Seeing as this is just for fun/homelab learning, I guess I shouldn't worry too much about it (except for $'s lost if drives wear out too soon). Thanks again for sharing your experience. cheers.

[@Shimi1990]

thanks a lot!!!

[@BrianThomas]

can the backup client be used on a Windows machine as well?

[@BrianThomas]

Nevermind. I found a Windows API that I can use. Thank you

[@execration_texts]

​@@BrianThomascould you share that?

[@haythemferjani1590]

can you please do a video tutorial on how to setup a Clonezilla se (server) to do backups and bare metal backup

[@FastRedPonyCar]

If I have a PC with 2 data drives, I want to test proxmox backup server on. Can the proxmox server create a software RAID0 array with the 2 drives to use as a repository? Or do I have to have a hardware array?

[@jamesklinger1039]

I'd like to see how to backup a Windows machine using Proxmox Backup

[@jamesw4445]

Thank you for the detailed video. I learned a lot from you. A quick question: is it possible to use a different ID other than root@pam for proxmox-backup-client? I need to run it under cron and I don't want to put root@pam's password in the script. Thank you.

[@ManVersusWilderness]

No matter how I configure this, even following your steps to the letter, I keep getting backup failed permission denied. -_-

[@paullee107]

Really loved this. Hey, on my NAS I’m trying to use proxmox-backup-client on one [large, 4TB] directory [/export/Backup4TB]. I use the same command as you, except I put the subdir after the /… I get - Error: stat failed on “FILENAME.EXT”: EOVERFLOW: Value too large for defined data type. Is there another kind of data type to set? Reading the docs, but stumped atm.

[@fbifido2]

@25:57 - what about the ZFS part ??? can you do a video on that part ??? dedup/compression/etc... !!! - how do you exclude the swapfile from the command line ???

[@mohammadmahdifallah8634]

Thanks

[@vedranart]

Hi, I have a one Proxmox main server that has it's installation on 2TB (100GB used) RAID HDDs and another lvm-thin datastore on 1TB SSD. I'd like to remove the RAID HDDs and exchange it for 1x 512GB NVMe. What would be the easiest way of migrating the Proxmox installation to that NVMe while preserving the LVM-thin that's on another SSD? Would it be better to do an fresh Proxmox installation? Or should I run an another server as an backup and firstly backup the main server, remove the RAID from it and install NVMe, restore the backup from backup server? Or is there a way to do it all on main server? Like migrating from RAID and shrinking the volume so that it can be moved to 512GB NVMe? Thanks!

[@raul230285]

AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGG.....!!!!!!!!!!

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

At storage section part how come and you showed the creation of a directory on a single disk instead of first usging the right zfs menu and create first the raid and upon that to create the Dataset where the backups are stored.

[@BrianThomas]

Does anyone know the default mount point for disks in Proxmox backup server? I'm asking because I have drives that are not showing up only for Proxmox, but I'm able to mount and access them via the command line. I've searched and tried a ton of things to get it to work.

[@magicmanj32]

Can you restore host/linux backup to local machine and how?

[@AlexB-op7kb]

Is that server just massively over qualified for PBUS? Im running it on a vm with 2 cores and 4 GiB ram as a demo.

[@rodriguegami758]

Hello Good job. I thought PBS could be used to replicate VMs from one Proxmox VE cluster to another. This is therefore not the solution you need to set up a DR site. Are there solutions for VM replication in the case of an infrastructure with DR? I want to use Ceph for VM storage.

[@Kabelkerl]

Interessting Video , but is it possible to backup real Hardware Windows clients ? And how will they be restored?

[@myproject6753]

Yet again an "awesome" video! THANKS!!!! A somehow complicated issue in PROXMOX as far as I can tell is the export and import of VMs. It took me quit a while and a mix of different tutorials to get it done. Even though finally it worked it is not a "Press one Button" Issue. What is your comment on this....

[@michaelharings9913]

Can you add the backup server to a proxmox ve server? Or is the proxmox backup server a different build?

[@giftcp82]

Does pbs do incremental and differential backups?

[@PCMagikHomeLab]

Hey, can You tell me difrences between uefi vs legacy in Proxmox VE instalation or Proxmox backup server? Any benefits in BIOS? What benefits in UEFI? What about Pci passthrough?

[@brierepooc8987]

UEFI provides boot level security and networking features. GUI interface where you can use a mouse for navigation. It also has an increase in speeds and access larger sized hdd's. Also if I remember correctly, you can use multiple partitions.

[@PCMagikHomeLab]

@@brierepooc8987 but questin is about instalation of proxmox, not vms. What is the difrence? any help?

[@mydarnet]

Hi Jay,Could you please answer me…Is Proxmox support OVA image or no? If so how? The same like VMware or you must do something different to elaborate this function?

[@lsdowdle]

PVE uses KVM which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't directly support OVA. There are various tools to convert from/to various disk formats. KVM's native formats are QCOW2 and RAW... or physical disks/partitions.

[@mydarnet]

Thanks for this info but I really want to know how to do it…waiting for a full answer from Jay,we will see…

[@mithubopensourcelab482]

Absolutely a non-issue. Just a commond qemu-img is more than enough to use OVA image.

[@mydarnet]

@@mithubopensourcelab482 ok thanks but how to use it? This is just a single command…Do you have some link/guide how to do it? I know that you can use man for help but really what is the full syntax to convert/support OVA on PVE? By the way, Jay is never answer here…

[@mithubopensourcelab482]

@@mydarnet Convert the . ova image for use with KVM ∞ Copy the downloaded OVA file (named pexip-. . ... Unpack the .ova image, using the command: tar xf pexip-..ova. ... Convert the disk image from VMDK to raw, using the command: qemu-img convert -O raw pexip-disk01.vmdk pexip-disk01.raw. Similarly you can convert .raw file into qcow2 very easily. Create a new vm with disk. Go to storage folder. Note down the name of qcow2 file. Rename the default qcow2 file. Now rename the converted qcow2 file. and start vm. Thats it.

[@shonay]

Happ1n3ss!!!

[@PolSenserrich]

Could it be used for external backups? As a NAS for example? I'd like to backup my externals plesk's web servers. Thanks

[@PolSenserrich]

Oups... Great videos and great channel

[@danbrown586]

I've been using PBS for a few months to back up my Proxmox cluster, and I really like it for that purpose. It's just frustrating that they only support Debian (and derivatives) on x64--no support for non-.deb distros (like RHEL, Fedora, and anything based on them), and no support for any other architecture (i.e., can't back up your Raspberry Pi).

[@Sheyk871]

can backup only debian vm/ct?

[@danbrown586]

@@Sheyk871 No, I'm backing up plenty of Linux distros, and even other OSs. But it's a little frustrating that the server can't run on anything other than .deb/x64.

[@Sheyk871]

@@danbrown586 the PBS cant run On Windows, but PBS can store Backup Windows VM

[@danbrown586]

@@Sheyk871 Yes, I'm backing up Windows VMs with it.

[@pramodkeram5277]

can you tell me is proxmox backup client available for centos

[@pixelsafoison]

Am I the only guy who hates swap ? No server of mine is ever allowed to keep its swap partition

[@josephp1592]

Id suggest not using the root user. I make a user on pbs with perm DatastoreBackup only and use that user in ve

[@tomamore3]

I'm sorry, are you saying "gib-e-bytes"?

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

During installation on choosing the management interface setup, if someone has an extra 10gbe card interface is it mandatory to set one of the 10gbe ports here, in order for proxmox backup server to use the quick road during uploading and offloading backups, instead of the 1gbe port? Does that need to be managed here, or later from gui. So many videos about proxmox and none has referred to that matter.

[@nevermetme]

If you want to have certain traffic using another fast network, configure a different subnet on that and use the IPs from that subnet, e.g. connect to the PBS via the IP in the "fast" subnet.

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

@@nevermetme ...so I do have to configure the fast lane during the installation process, I dont think proxmox gui can be accessed by two different ips each on it's own subnet. I am not quite sure I follow what you are suggesting

[@nevermetme]

@@dimitristsoutsouras2712 No, I usually configure the "main" interface during installation and then use the GUI or if you know what you are doing, the /etc/network/interfaces file (Debian default network config) directly to configure additional interfaces or make changes if needed at some later point.

[@ierosgr]

@@nevermetme so do you have a 10gbe card on your proxmox server?

[@nevermetme]

@@ierosgr No, but multiple 1gbit networks which I use for different things.

[@rickgrimes24]

hello 27:45 = why can't I enter a different email please help

[@danielmolnar8372]

Hy everone. Can I attach an external/network storage? How? :)

[@LearnLinuxTV]

I don't have a video on that yet, but I'd like to do more content on Proxmox.