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Can anyone share if they are using PBS with remote backup storage only? I’d like to backup directly to an offsite location, so no backing up to a local drive and then syncing that to remote…

What are your considerations for restoring? I am hesitant to use PBS (on the same machine as my PVE) because with my current solution (restic), I only need to install PVE on a new machine and in addition, I’d need the static binary - and then I’m good to restore. If I’d use PBS, then I’d need to first install PVE, then PBS and only then I can restore…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you say „didn’t work very well“ do you mean performance was not good?

A local backup synced to cloud is a valid solution, it’s just that I’d like to skip the local part because I feel it’s superfluous for my usecase.

Up- and downlink are fast enough and because the data only changes very slowly, storing deltas in a remote backup location should be fast enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn't reliable. Maybe they've fixed that, but I couldn't trust it the way it worked then. It's been a couple years though, so there's that.

I guess it's your call about whether a local is superfluous, but I find it pretty useful.