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Hi Martin,
Congratulations on this all-new release to the team!
In a fast overview, it looks like a well-thought solution with sound
technical choices like Rust usage.
I'm eager to give it a try, as it could help us converge our current VM
and file-level backups.
Given we usually perform PVE backups to a NFS server (in a PVE cluster
node or standalone NAS), do you think it would make sense to setup PBS
in a VM, with storage on a NFS server?
Thanks a lot for your continued open source developments!!
Cheers
Eneko
El 10/7/20 a las 12:56, Martin Maurer escribió:
We are proud to announce the first beta release of our new Proxmox
Backup Server.
It's an enterprise-class client-server backup software that backups
virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. It is specially
optimized for the Proxmox Virtual Environment platform and allows you
to backup and replicate your data securely. It provides easy
management with a command line and web-based user interface, and is
licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (GNU AGPL, v3).
Proxmox Backup Server supports incremental backups, deduplication,
compression and authenticated encryption. Using Rust
https://www.rust-lang.org/ as implementation language guarantees high
performance, low resource usage, and a safe, high quality code base.
It features strong encryption done on the client side. Thus, it’s
possible to backup data to not fully trusted targets.
Main Features
Support for Proxmox VE:
The Proxmox Virtual Environment is fully supported and you can easily
backup virtual machines (supporting QEMU dirty bitmaps -
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/bitmaps.html) and containers.
Performance:
The whole software stack is written in Rust
https://www.rust-lang.org/, to provide high speed and memory efficiency.
Deduplication:
Periodic backups produce large amounts of duplicate data. The
deduplication layer avoids redundancy and minimizes the used storage
space.
Incremental backups:
Changes between backups are typically low. Reading and sending only
the delta reduces storage and network impact of backups.
Data Integrity:
The built in SHA-256 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2 checksum
algorithm assures the accuracy and consistency of your backups.
Remote Sync:
It is possible to efficiently synchronize data to remote sites. Only
deltas containing new data are transferred.
Compression:
The ultra fast Zstandard compression is able to compress several
gigabytes of data per second.
Encryption:
Backups can be encrypted on the client-side using AES-256 in
Galois/Counter Mode (GCM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode). This authenticated
encryption mode provides very high performance on modern hardware.
Web interface:
Manage Proxmox backups with the integrated web-based user interface.
Open Source:
No secrets. Proxmox Backup Server is free and open-source software.
The source code is licensed under AGPL, v3.
Support:
Enterprise support will be available from Proxmox.
And of course - Backups can be restored!
Release notes
https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Roadmap
Download
https://www.proxmox.com/downloads
Alternate ISO download:
http://download.proxmox.com/iso
Documentation
https://pbs.proxmox.com
Community Forum
https://forum.proxmox.com
Source Code
https://git.proxmox.com
Bugtracker
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com
FAQ
Q: How does this integrate into Proxmox VE?
A: Just add your Proxmox Backup Server storage as new storage backup
target to your Proxmox VE. Make sure that you have at least
pve-manager 6.2-9 installed.
Q: What will happen with the existing Proxmox VE backup (vzdump)?
A: You can still use vzdump. The new backup is an additional but very
powerful way to backup and restore your VMs and container.
Q: Can I already backup my other Debian servers (file backup agent)?
A: Yes, just install the Proxmox Backup Client
(https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-proxmox-backup-client-on-debian).
Q: Are there already backup agents for other distributions?
A: Not packaged yet, but using a statically linked binary should work
in most cases on modern Linux OS (work in progress).
Q: Is there any recommended server hardware for the Proxmox Backup
Server?
A: Use enterprise class server hardware with enough disks for the
(big) ZFS pool holding your backup data. The Backup Server should be
in the same datacenter as your Proxmox VE hosts.
Q: Where can I get more information about coming feature updates?
A: Follow the announcement forum, pbs-devel mailing list
https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pbs-devel, and
subscribe to our newsletter https://www.proxmox.com/news.
Please help us reaching the final release date by testing this beta
and by providing feedback via https://forum.proxmox.com
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Eneko Lacunza | Tel. 943 569 206
| Email [email protected]
Director Técnico | Site. https://www.binovo.es
BINOVO IT HUMAN PROJECT S.L | Dir. Astigarragako Bidea, 2 - 2º izda.
Oficina 10-11, 20180 Oiartzun
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