While Drive size for VM storage is upto you. Os HardDrive should be given atleast 10 to 15 Gbs of storage space which may be used for updates and upgardes.8 GB for best performance, especially if you are using 1 or more TBs of Hard Drive and if not you can lower it to 4GB.You will need to add a separate HDD for storage(used for VM backups), while the first Hard Drive(10 Gb size) will carry the O.S for PBS (Proxmox Backup Server).If you don’t have many backup jobs to run then choose the minimum specs. Proxmox Backup Server VM Hardware Requirements Now that the ISO is uploaded, we need to know the VM hardware specifications. Once you find the Iso Image, Select it and then click the Upload button and this will upload the image to the PVE default local storage. Once you select the Upload button a pop will generate and asking to select the desired file, now click the Select File button and browse to the directory where you have saved your downloaded ISO. Install Proxmox Backup Server From ISOĪnyways coming back to the tutorial, Just go to the backup server ISO download page and select the Download button for Proxmox Backup Server 2.0 ISO Installer, this will begin the download to your desired directory, once the download is complete, its time to upload the ISO to your PVE server.įor this, log in to your PVE and then choose Server View –> Datacenter –> Choose default local storage -> Select ISO images from the right pane-> then select Upload button. To avoid such a situation it is also a good strategy to create an offsite backup server and schedule automated backups to this offsite location. The backup server is going to be a critical Unit for your office/work, and It will reside as a VM on top of PVE, so by chance, if PVE crashes then you may lose your critical VMs. If upgrading from PVE 6x to 7x is not an option then instead create a VM with Debian’s Linux latest version and then follow my easy guide to Install Proxmox on Debian. To succeed with the installation you will need to make sure that you upgrade from Proxmox VE 6x to the latest 7x version, the reason being that PVE version 6x uses a network management tool called Ifupdown version 1, and as soon as you try to install the latest proxmox backup server it tries to replace the Ifupdown with version 2 (Ifupdown2) for some reason, it hangs the installation process. To install the proxmox backup server as a VM on proxmox VE, I am using Proxmox VE version 7.0-8 and Proxmox Backup Server Version 2.0-9.

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