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"What if the server catches fire?"

It sounds dramatic, but hardware fails. Hard drives die. Someone accidentally deletes a database. A botched update corrupts the system.

If you don't have backups, everything you built is one bad day away from being gone.

Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) is designed specifically to back up Proxmox VMs and containers. It supports:

  • Incremental backups — only back up what changed, saving space and time
  • Scheduled backups — automatic, no human intervention needed
  • Off-site replication — copy backups to a different location (another building, a cloud server)
  • Easy restore — bring back a VM or container to any point in time

Work in Progress

This section will explain backup strategy for community networks and introduce Proxmox Backup Server.

Guide reference

For step-by-step PBS setup, see Guide — Proxmox Backup Server.