02-05-2021



  1. PBS datastore on Windows 10 via cifs, Backblaze Personal Backup for offsite backups

    Hi,I've set up the new stable release of PBS with the datastore on a Windows 10 cifs share and it's working great. However it got me thinking, wouldn't I need to restore the entire volume/datastore if I ever needed to restore a VM older than my retention?Could I/is there a way to only restore...
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    • backblaze backup pbs
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    • Forum: Proxmox Backup: Installation and configuration
  2. Remote backup to B2

    How exactly should PBS be backed up to systems other than another PBS host? In particular I was wanting to set up an offsite backup to Backblaze B2. Is it fine to just take a normal file level backup of the datastore using some third party backup software? I'm assuming the backups are just...
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    • backblaze ceph off-site
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Proxmox Backup: Installation and configuration
  3. Proxmox backup VM over object storage B2 / S3

    Hi there,I'm been working finding a way to backup VM over an object storage like S3 or B2 Backblaze...I've finally found a solution that is quite stable and perform well.If someone is interested I'm doing in this way:- VM backup over local storage- made a script that with rclone move...
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    • backblaze object storage rclone remote backup scaleway
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Proxmox VE: Installation and configuration
Backblaze server backup

Backblaze Server Backup

Backblaze server 2019
  1. Set your Backblaze private encryption key. Once that is set they can't read your data or help you if you forget your encryption key. It's a one way thing too, once you enable it you can't go back without starting over. Download rclone from rclone.org and learn the crypt option. It is very, very easy.
  2. Backblaze's interface for restoring is just terrible. 500GB zips at a time is a real pain in the ass and their web ui wont even fit the file list properly for you to even select what you want. Its just terrible for restoring files. Sure you can have drives mailed to you, this is a great.

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Backblaze Server Backup

The Backblaze Storage Pod is just one part of building a cloud storage service. In order to boot the machine you will need to have a software layer. Backblaze uses all free software, Debian and Apache, to connect the pods to our network. Starting at the bottom, there are 45 hard drives connected through SATA controllers. The Backblaze Personal Backup client was started in January of 2007 as a ā€˜Cā€™ and C source tree that compiled on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux (originally CentOS but later when we standardized on Debian for the server side we now compile the client on Debian). The entire time we have kept the Linux client fully working and compiling (for.