#disaster-recovery
Every post tagged disaster-recovery.
Blog posts
How to Restore a VM or LXC Container from a Backup in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Learn how to restore a full VM or LXC container from a vzdump backup in Proxmox VE using the GUI, qmrestore, and pct restore, including live-restore and choosing a new VMID vs overwriting.
How to Set Up Tape Backup in Proxmox Backup Server (LTO Drives and Media Pools)
Configure LTO tape drives, media pools, and encryption in Proxmox Backup Server for offline, ransomware-resistant, offsite archival — from hardware passthrough to your first tape restore.
How to Configure Prune and Garbage Collection Jobs in Proxmox Backup Server
Set up retention policies with keep-last, keep-daily, and the other prune options in Proxmox Backup Server, understand how garbage collection actually reclaims disk space, and schedule both correctly.
How to Set Up Sync Jobs Between Two Proxmox Backup Servers for Offsite Backup Replication
Configure Remotes and Sync Jobs to replicate a Proxmox Backup Server datastore to a second, offsite PBS instance — pull vs push direction, required permissions, group and namespace filtering, bandwidth throttling, encrypted-backup handling, and verifying the offsite copy actually restores.
How to Encrypt Proxmox VE Backups: Client-Side Encryption with Proxmox Backup Server
Turn on client-side AES-256 encryption for Proxmox Backup Server, set up a master key and paperkey for disaster recovery, and avoid the mistakes that make encrypted backups permanently unreadable.
How to Restore Individual Files from a Proxmox Backup Server Snapshot (Without Restoring the Whole VM)
Recover a single deleted file or folder from a VM or LXC backup on Proxmox Backup Server using the File Restore browser or the proxmox-file-restore CLI, without a full restore.
How to Set Up Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) and Add It as Storage in Proxmox VE
Install Proxmox Backup Server, create a datastore and scoped-down API token, connect it to Proxmox VE, and run your first deduplicated backup and restore.
How to Backup a Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Learn how to back up a virtual machine in Proxmox VE using the web GUI and vzdump, set up a recurring backup job, and restore a VM when something goes wrong.