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For a long time, I thought my homelab backups were solid. I had scheduled jobs.I had green checkmarks.Everything looked clean in the Proxmox UI. And honestly? I felt pretty confident. Until one night I asked myself a simple question: “What happens if my main server dies completely?” Not just a disk failure.Not just a VM …
Running PBS on the same server as your production VMs is risky. If the host fails, your backups fail too. But you don’t need to buy dedicated hardware — running PBS in a VM on your main PC is safe, flexible, and efficient. In this guide, we’ll show you how to run Proxmox Backup Server …
In Part 1, we designed a complete enterprise-style backup architecture for homelabs using: Now it’s time to build the foundation that makes all of this possible. And here’s something many guides get wrong: Not all storage in a Proxmox system should be ZFS. A well-designed homelab separates performance storage from capacity storage. Today we’ll build …
Why Telegram Notifications Matter Even a small backup failure can go unnoticed without alerts. Telegram notifications give you: Example scenarios: Using Built-In PVE and PBS Webhook Notifications Both Proxmox VE and PBS support webhook notifications, which can send messages directly to Telegram. Example PVE webhook URL for Telegram: How to configure: PBS notifications are similar: …
The Reality of Typical Homelab Backups Most homelab backups start the same way: You schedule nightly backups… and everything looks fine — until you actually need to restore. Then you discover the painful truth: This happens because traditional VM backups are full-image copies every time. They don’t understand what actually changed. They just copy everything …
Best Practices for Reliable Homelab Data Protection The Hidden Risk in Most Homelabs Most homelab setups focus heavily on backups — usually sending VM backups to another disk or a backup server once per day. But in real-world usage, most data loss doesn’t come from disasters. It comes from: And these problems often happen between …
Automating backups in a Proxmox + ZFS environment is crucial for reliability, consistency, and peace of mind. Manual backups are slow and error-prone, but with a fully scripted workflow, you can ensure that snapshots, replication, VM backups, and notifications run seamlessly in the background. This guide will show you how to implement a real-world, modular …
In Part 2, we built a professional homelab storage layout: Today, we take the next step: Replicating ZFS datasets from your HDD mirror to Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) using Syncoid, ensuring off-host redundancy and automated backup workflows. Replication is critical: it protects against disk failure, accidental deletion, and data corruption — all without touching your …
Why Disaster Recovery Testing Matters If you think your backups are reliable, think again. Many homelab users make the critical mistake of assuming that “everything is safe” until disaster strikes. Without testing, you can’t be sure that: This post walks you through a full disaster recovery (DR) simulation for your Proxmox + ZFS + PBS …
If you run Proxmox in production, you already know the real enemy isn’t disk failure — it’s half‑finished backups, overlapping jobs, and sleeping hosts in the middle of a snapshot. This post walks through a battle‑tested Bash script I use to back up large datasets to Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) safely, cleanly, and without interfering …