Will Proxmox BackUp server handle remote VPS? I had assumed that it only was for ProxMox VM’s.
Backup Types: Proxmox Backup Server is optimized for backing up Proxmox VMs and containers. If your VPS is running a different virtualization platform, you may need to adapt your backup strategy accordingly.
That’s what AI tells me and then gives a configuration such as:
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#!/bin/bash
# Variables
CONTAINER_NAME="your_container_name"
VOLUME_NAME="your_volume_name"
BACKUP_DIR="/path/to/backup/dir"
TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
# Create a backup of the Docker volume
docker run --rm -v ${VOLUME_NAME}:/volume -v ${BACKUP_DIR}:/backup alpine \
sh -c "cd /volume && tar czf /backup/${VOLUME_NAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.tar.gz ."
# Optionally, export the container
docker export ${CONTAINER_NAME} -o ${BACKUP_DIR}/${CONTAINER_NAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.tar
echo "Backup completed for ${CONTAINER_NAME} and ${VOLUME_NAME} at ${TIMESTAMP}"
Yeah I know it’s AI, which may or may not be completely accurate. Would I need to do that for each and every Docker container? I’ve got some 60 +/- containers. LOL <whine boohoo!>
That along with the client on the remote VPS would take care of Docker containers, however, I would also like to back up configuration files, and data associated with UFW, F2B, etc. Pretty much a snapshot of each server.
These lowendbox hosts don’t include snapshots and frills and Contabo only lets you keep one snapshot active. I did find an N8N flow that automates the snapshot process for Contabo. I guess I could upgrade to better hosts, but one of the VPS is my skunk works server where I run and test everything before putting it into production…it’s like $25 per year. Contabo is decent, and LuxVPS gives me the most bang for buck including all the frills for $10 a month. So, that’s about as much fun money I got for the time being.
In a life before a TBI and subsequent seizure condition robbed me of a functioning brain, I actually ran the IT dept for a company which I worked for as a mech eng, estimator, designer, and project manager. This one gentleman who was a field super and his wife had been trying for years to have a child. They finally did after many miscarriages and rough times, and as you can imagine, they took so many pictures of their baby. He called me one day in a panic about his computer and so I rushed over to his house. Long story short, his HDD had suffered a major crash for whatever reason, and everything was gone. No backups of his baby pictures, nothing. I sent the HDD off to see what could be recovered, but apparently it everything was toast.
Even tho it wasn’t my pictures, it hurt me to my core, that all these pictures and memories this man and his wife had accumulated, were gone forever. It really did a number on me and I think about it from time to time even tho that has been decades ago.
Make backups folks. It might take you the better part of a Saturday afternoon to get everything backed up and secure, but do it anyways.