I‘ve got 2 Machines with Proxmox on both installed. One hosts my data and media and runs Services like Jellyfin, NAS,… The other one is a Mini-PC that hosts my Services like Adguard, Home Assistant,…
Whats the best way to Backup the data and configs of those 2 machines? Installing Proxmox Backup Server on each and store the Backups on a seperate HDD? Or would it be better if a move all the services to a single machine and use the second only for backups?
thank you!
@doctorflynt — skip Proxmox Backup Server. Two commands and a cron job beat one more service. On the data/media machine:
zfs snapshot pool/media@$(date +%F). On the Mini-PC:rsync -a /etc /home /usr/local /mnt/nas/mini-pc/$(date +%F)/. That’s it. Rebuild either machine in under an hour from those folders. I added duplicity to push to Backblaze B2 once a week as insurance, but recovery from local snapshots is instant. If either box catches fire, swap drives, restore configs, reinstall services, import media. No PBS cluster, no RAID, no drama. My one-pager of exact commands is at https://cxgo.ai/l/V23Nn8d if you want the ugly details.