I thought I had a backup. I use the Gdrive add-on and it should have had a backup.

I didn’t have a backup.

Turns out when I moved from a Pi to Proxmox I didn’t set Gdrive add-on up properly, so it wasn’t making backups every 3 days like it always has.

Then I killed Proxmox. No idea what I did to kill it, I just tried to make my NAS VM have 4gb ram all the time instead of Ballooning from 1gb, and it never booted again.

So I had to start fresh. But while I’ve only been playing with VMs for a couple months my HA instance has been a work of love since Lockdowns and COVID times.

And now I’m starting again.

Now go and check your backup solution.

  • MangoPenguinEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Yep, Proxmox has a built in backup solution which I use paired with proxmox backup server, I also run backups with restic on each VM/CT of the important stuff like config files.

    I test restores every now and then, just by either restoring a full VM/CT, or doing a restic restore and checking over some files.