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Proxmox Backup Server PBS is design to backup Proxmox Virtual Environment.  Proxmox Backup Server is designed to run bare-metal on dedicated hardware, with dedicated drives for the operating system and backups. The main backup should be on bare metal and NFS S...

This article goes over steps for installing Proxmox Backup Server. There is multiple options on where to run PBS instance, however for best performance running it on seperate bare metal machine would be the best option. PBS can run in virtual machine if needed...

This article goes over steps for installing Proxmox Backup Server. There is multiple options on where to run PBS instance, however for best performance running it on seperate bare metal machine would be the best option. PBS can run in virtual machine if needed...

This article goes over setting up Community based updates. By default, PBS (and Proxmox VE), are configured to download the 'Enterprise' repository for your updates. Unless you do have an enterprise license, we need to add the 'no-subscription' repository and ...

It is optional but recommended to create a separate backup user. In the next step we will connect our PBS to Proxmox VE, and for that you need a user. You could simply use the root user, but best practices dictate that a separate user is better for security re...

Datastore is where the backups will be saved. This article goes over configuring datastore using a disk on the machine. If not using volume from machine check out this article to use NAS storage via NFS   Creating Datastore Login to PBS Under Storage/Dis...

This guide goes over scheduling backup job with PBS server. Proxmox Virtual Environment can run it's own jobs, but for best optimization, using deducation and verify jobs, having PBS is good idea. Also, it provides redundancy if pve goes down. Using Proxmox B...

This guide explains how to install and use Proxmox Backup Client on a Debian VM. This would allow non proxmox machine to be backed up using PBS. Proxmox Backup Client Documentation Proxmox Installaton for Proxmox Backup Client Documentation Installing Pro...