From: Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com>
To: pve-user@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PVE-User] Revisited: External disk backup using PBS - Requesting Criticism/Advice?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:22:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15e5bfd5-7458-fdbe-5079-ce78a19e0099@gmail.com> (raw)
TTL;DR - Backup PC is a standalone Proxmox Server, running a PBS lxc
container using its host filesystem for the Backup store. The PBS
container is backed up using vzdump to an attached external hard drive
which is rotated offsite.
Source Data
* 5 Node Proxmox Cluster
* Ceph storage (size = 3)
* 30 VM's
Backup Destination
Standalone Proxmox Server in same server room as main cluster
* 16 GM Ram
* CPU: Intel i5
* Boot - 2 SSD's in ZFS RAID1
* Data - 2 4TB WD NAS Drives in ZFS RAID1
* Bonded 1G * 3
* PBS Container
o Data Store - 4TB, passed through from Host
Schedule
* Proxmox backups up all VM's to PBS Container Weekly
o Will revisit the schedule
* Host proxmox server backs up PBS and its data to external hard drive
o Approx 2 TB Data (we are just an SMB)
o Drive is rotated offsite
Recovery
* VM's can easily be restored from the PBS server as needed (very rare
occurrence - usually a user messed up their VM)
Disaster Recovery
This is the real concern - Fire, Theft etc. All servers and data
including the Standalone Host and PBS server are gone.
* Recreate Proxmox Cluster
* Recreate Proxmox PBS Host
o Restore the PBS Container and data from an offsite backup disk
* Restore the VM's to the Cluster from the PBS Container
Does all this seem practical and safe?
Thanks - Lindsay
--
Lindsay
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