I’ve been meaning to write this post but I’ve been too lazy until now:
I’m sure none of you have used Proxmox before but I found this useful since I didn’t want to run and had no interest in deploying an email server nor a public one that datamines like Gmail or Outlook’s
I get notified if a VM image backup’s integrity isn’t verified since I don’t want to be screwed if in the event that I need to recover from a disaster like a failed hard drive/SSD, filesystem corruption (Though, I’m using ext4 for Lemmy’s VM so that’s exceedingly rare)
I’ve also got a crontab setup that rsyncs the backup images to an SSD from the backup drive then pushes it off-site to @Disabled@burggit.moe 's server so we have a full 3 2 1 backup implemented.
Down the line if we expand more and need more storage, I’m going to ideally want a RAID of sorts. Just so we’ll have more fault tolerance, though that’ll be expensive. :x
I use proxmox, But i do it slightly different and i like to live dangerously :P
Proxmox > LXC container (debian) > Docker + Docker-compose + portainer
With that said, each docker container has a bind mount on my drive (for presistant data). No email, no verification if backup was good, etc etc. like i said, i like to live dangerously.
Backing up volume mounts was what I originally did, though this was before I was aware of proxmox nor had the proper hardware to do a lot of VMs. So I was using docker on bare metal on Ubuntu server.
Ah i feel you. I really like just encrypting all volume data (mounted to local folder), shipping it to diff drive, then uploading it to “cloud” as another back up. So far reliable, but i am sure not best solution. One thing is for sure tho, its easiest autobackup i can think of haha
