Proxmox How To Backup and Restore VMs to a NAS

[@HenriHuotari]

For those struggling with getting their TrueNAS Scale to work with this, you need to go to the share advanced settings and set maproot user and maproot group to "root". Thanks for the video!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Yeah, TrueNAS Scale and TrueNAS Core admin can be different I've since found The ACLs for instance seem a lot more in depth

[@ryanmalone2681]

Excellent. Had my backups set up and completed onto my NAS before I was even halfway through the video.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I like that they built this into the system A NAS usually has a built-in cloud backup solution so it makes life much easier for offline backups

[@BillyDickson]

Thanks Dave, much appreciated, I just updated my NAS from Core to Scale and did a quick restore from my my NAS to my Proxmox box and all went well. thanks for that. As another of my fave KZbin creaters says "An untested backup is just wishful thinking". 👍

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

That sounds like quite a lot of work to be doing, but good to know things went well I did drop Core for Scale myself along the way Although I would appreciate it if they did more work on tuneables And the ACL permissions are "interesting" compared to what was in Core But with most of my other things now on Debian I prefer it

[@andymok7945]

Thanks. I picked up a couple new features. I do backup my VM/LXC using the built in backup solution to my TrueNAS. Been using Proxmox for about 6 years now.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I think it's a very useful backup option No agent to install, and it even has data retention Compared to other hypervisors, Proxmox VE ticks a lot more boxes for me

[@bdhaliwal24]

Great tutorial video. Very thorough and detailed with your commentary. Thanks.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback And good to know the video was helpful

[@bassjunk3]

this is weird... your last few videos have been bang on what I'm working on or about to start working on! Will need to call you mistic Dave from now on!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

That's very handy indeed Maybe I should set up a financial channel I'd love to be able to predict the stock market or lottery numbers

[@bassjunk3]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone 💰💰

[@4evermetalhead79]

Same here. 🤯

[@zyghom]

super nice guide. I would suggest also using Proxmox Backup Server. Reason being: it goes a bit further. Not only it can also backup non-proxmox data but, more important (at least for me): the backup you are showing today uses all the space available because every backup is new file. While Proxmox Backup Server uses deduplication - in my case the ratio is 45:1 - that really saves the space on NAS.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Wow, that is a lot of storage saved It's no surprise then that containers became so popular You can run deduplication on a NAS like TrueNAS if you're using ZFS mind But I quite like the option of having PBS doing regular verification checks on your files

[@zyghom]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone true, I can use dedup of ZFS as such but the space/dataset I created on my NAS for the PBS I set without dedup - you don't need 2x dedup: 1 from PBS and 1 from ZFS - it will only cause CPU to grill ;-) And I did not see option to turn it OFF on PBS. The easiest way is to install PBS on the same Proxmox, give it space for backups from NAS and voila - no need for extra machine. Data is protected because it is not on the same machine where Proxmox is but on NAS. VM of PBS will be backed up to NAS as well.

[@williambravin1254]

Many Thanks David . Well explained and very useful @BillyDickson... Just did the same last night🤣

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback and good to know this was helpful

[@fedefede843]

Well done sir!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Glad you liked the video

[@ruwn561]

If you want certain VM backed up in different jobs or times. Put your VMs into pools and use pool based backups.. instead of Node or selected VM backups.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Now that is good to know, thanks for sharing That gives me an idea for another video actually as pools can be useful for other reasons

[@Serwer-v3e]

challenge chow to install ABB on PROXMOX host?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

What do you mean by ABB? All I'm getting in search results is a company

[@TheExcetto]

if my proxmox host was to go down, and I launched a new one, could I mount the smb on a new host and restore them via that? thanks

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

It should be possible as the backup files aren't owned by one particular server Make sure when attaching the share to the new server though that it can be used for backup files if you want to restore via the GUI

[@alexlay7809]

I have a QNAP NAS running samba/cifs but it requires user authentification. Can you explain how to set that up?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Unfortunately I don't have a QNAP NAS to test against But assuming you've created a share on it you'll want to select the SMB/CIFS option when adding a storage in Promox VE Provide a name for the storage Enter the IP address or FQDN for the NAS Enter the username Enter the password Now I don't know about your QNAP but I didn't need to include any domain details Assuming the account has access, you should then be able to select the share you want to use in the Share field If that doesn't work check the log file on the NAS Change the Content to VZDump backup file instead of Disk image Then click Add

[@alexlay7809]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone will try that. TYVVM!

[@joshuamiranda2167]

You remind me of Bill Burr

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I can see the resemblance