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 …