[PVE-User] Offsite Backups with PBS using External swapable Drives?

[PVE-User] Offsite Backups with PBS using External swapable Drives?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

Is this possible via disk transfer?

We don't have the upload bandwidth for direct transfer to the cloud. 
Currently we do vzdump backups to a local NAS and sync those to an 
attached external USB drive, which is rotated offsite once a month. We 
keep a total of six drives in rotation that way.


Is there anyway to do this with PBS? I can't see it myself, it seems to 
be entirely orientated around network transfer.


Thanks.

-- 
Lindsay

Re: [PVE-User] Offsite Backups with PBS using External swapable Drives?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 31/03/2021 3:20 pm, Arjen via pve-user wrote:
> If you run PBS somewhere, you can use a folder on the NAS as a Datastore. You could duplicate that folder to the external drive, as a backup copy of that Datastore and keep it off-site.


I'll look into that, though I'd be concerned regards file locking and 
sync to disk issues. Worth testing out though.


> You would need a PBS to read from the external drive in case of a on-site disaster. Something like that might be simlar to what you do now, except that you need to run a PBS somewhere on-site (possibly in a VM or CT).

Actually running it in a VM now for testing!

-- 
Lindsay

Re: [PVE-User] Offsite Backups with PBS using External swapable Drives?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 1/04/2021 4:24 pm, Arjen via pve-user wrote:
> Or first backup the whole PBS VM to the NAS and then sync to external disk, much like you do now?

That would certainly work


Cheers,

-- 
Lindsay