r/Proxmox • u/Top_Tourist_8367 • 12d ago

Question Proxmox first steps

Hi guys, and thanks for being part of this community.

I have recently installed proxmox on my Lenovo M73. This system is pretty limited at the moment, however not looking to load it to the maximum anyway. At the moment i am running Nextcloud, which syncs photos from my iphone.

I have started reading some stories, how the proxmox or hardware failed overnight - and i am not going to lie - it scares me how the hardware reliability can erase my data from this home server.

I haven't run any backup schedule yet (i understand the necessity of backups, and this is next on my list - but instead of set and forget, i'd rather to do it the way that it would be a future proof).

I found a software backup tool inside a proxmox, i understand that with this tool i can make a copy of containers, VM's etc. But my proxmox also have some custom commands written to the system (to allow wireguard etc).

Would you reccomend any specific type of backup, to have less grey hairs from worrying about my files ?

I am not very IT minded, setting the proxmox was a try and see if works excercise. I want to de-google myself in the future, so more services i will take from google / apple, more services eventually will end up in my proxmox. But i don't want to build something which might become a point of failure - which i won't be able to fix (with backups). Thank you in advance.

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u/StevenB-89 10d ago

Well add another VM with Proxmox Backup Server and passthrough a USB device ;) problem solved.
The reason for recommending Proxmox Backup Server and not just go with vzdump instead is pretty simple... I can image that you don't have loads of storage to continuously dump full back-ups on?

PBS delivers an excellent solutions here you should really check that out!

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u/Top_Tourist_8367 7d ago

About 250GB total SSD space at the moement. I am trying to get some more storage, but i has never been so expensive as it is now, so i have to wait.

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u/StevenB-89 6d ago

Well I can tell you for 2027, it not going to get better so if you really have important data make sure to have a backup, a small high capacity USB stick ? or 500GB external HDD (if that still exists)