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How do you guys back up your server?
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Proxmox Backup Server. It's life-changing. I back up every night and I can't tell you the number of times I've completely messed something up only to revert it in a matter of minutes to the nightly backup. You need a separate machine running it--something that kept me from doing it for the longest time--but it is 100% worth it.
I back that up to Backblaze B2 (using Duplicati currently, but I'm going to switch to Kopia), but thankfully I haven't had to use that, yet.
PBS backs up the host as well, right? Shame Veeam won't add Proxmox support. I really only backup my VMs and some basic configs
Veeam has been pretty good for my HyperV VMs, but I do wish I could find something a bit better. I've been hearing a lot about Proxmox lately. I wonder if it's worth switching to. I'm a MS guy myself so I just used what I know.
Veeam can't backup Proxmox on hypervisor level, only HyperV and VMWare
PBS only backs up the VMs and containers, not the host. That being said, the Proxmox host is super-easy to install and the VMs and containers all carry over, even if you, for example, botch an upgrade (ask me how I know...)
Then what's the purpose over just setting up the built in snapshot backup tool, that unlike PBS can natively back up onto an SMB network share?
I'm not super familiar with how snapshots work, but that seems like a good solution. As I remember, what pushed me to PBS was the ability to make incremental backups to keep them from eating up storage space, which I'm not sure is possible with just the snapshots in Proxmox. I could be wrong, though.
You are right about the snapshots yeah. The built in backup doesn't seem to do incremental backups.