Efficient backup of lxc containers in Proxmox
Lxc containers are fast, small and useful. Proxmox Backup Server is quite slow with them, so here's how to perform a fast and efficient backup using Borg.
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Proxmox Backup Server - hints for a perfect deployment
Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) has been released. It's still in beta but is already perfectly usable. After many years, it's now possible to perform incremental backups of the VMs and thanks to the qemu dirty bitmaps, backups are also fast.
Searching for a perfect backup solution
Many people think that it is enough to ensure that the storage medium is redundant - and you are fine. WRONG!!!!!
Take automatic snapshots of cephfs file systems
Cephfs is great. It can be used to store and share files and can take advantage of the granularity and performance of Ceph. Big amounts of data can be stored and live snapshots can be taken so remote backups can be easily performed.