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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
If you’re automating backups, writing scripts, or integrating Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) with other systems, API tokens are the correct way to authenticate — not passwords. This guide shows exactly how to create an API token in PBS, why you should use one, and how to use it safely with proxmox-backup-client. Simple, secure, and production-ready. …