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Proxmox VE Early Access

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Overview

With the release of build 9.10, VM Backup now supports backing up and restoring of VMs hosted on Proxmox VE environments. You can perform the following operations:

  • take backups of Proxmox VE VMs to onsite and offsite locations, such as Offsite Backup Server and cloud locations, like Azure, Amazon S3, Backblaze and Wasabi

  • take backups of Proxmox VE VMs irrespective of the storage type

  • backup data will be deduplicated using Hornetsecurity's augmented inline deduplication technology

  • restore Proxmox VE VMs back to a Proxmox VE environment, via Full VM Restore

 

Supported Versions

  • 8.2
  • 8.3
  • 8.4

 

License

For the duration of the Early Access period, Promox VE hosts will not require a license key, hence VMs from such hosts will be backed up for free

 

Known Issues & Limitations

  • Temporary storage space

    Backup operations — on the VM Backup agent a temporary data store with at least as much free space as the largest virtual machine is required on any of your Proxmox VE hosts.

    On the Proxmox VE host temporary storage is also required with at least as much free space as the largest virtual machine (by default "/var/tmp"), contact the support team to override this location.

    Restore operations —  on the Proxmox VE host temporary storage is also required with at least as much free space as the largest virtual machine (by default "/var/tmp"), contact the support team to override this location.

  • incremental backups are currently expected to take as much time as the initial full backup

  • File Level Restore, Restore Virtual Disk, Boot from Backup, Cross Platform Restore, Replication and CDP will be available later on

  • the 'root' user must be used in order to add the Proxmox VE hosts (users part of the root group are not supported)

  • if adding more than 1 Proxmox host to the same console, ensure that the hosts do not have the same hostname

  • application consistent backups are currently not supported

  • cluster environments are currently not supported during Early Access. You can still add each cluster member as a standalone host

  • backup of LXC containers is not supported

  • currently only one operation at a time is supported from Proxmox VE hosts that are added to the same VM Backup console

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