Backup

Overview There are many ways to back up your Proxmox virtual machines. One of the most popular ways to do so is via Proxmox Backup Server, which gives you many advantages: Deduplication of common data. The ability to cherry pick files out of your backups. Tight integration with the Proxmox ecosystem. However, how is one to achieve proper 3-2-1 backups using this mechanism? One way is to run multiple datastores, some local and some using Amazon S3 compatible endpoints. ...

Overview ZFS replication is my favored way of doing backups. In my homelab I have 2 systems running TrueNAS scale - one on my production hypervisor, with the disk controller passed through, and the backup server, which is just a baremetal TrueNAS Scale installation. Unfortunately, most of the tutorials on this process seem to use either the root account or at the very least, an account with admin privileges. In this article, I’m going to go over how you can get a ZFS replication setup working with a completely unprivileged user, without ever leaving the GUI. ...