Passthrough is smart if doing local, hadn’t thought of that.
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civ@lemmy.civl.cc 20 hours ago
Yikes. I backup to a local PBS VM too, but I’m passing the NVMe controller through as a PCI device and it works with no issues. I do also backup to the cloud and an external SSD, I’m not just trusting my proxmox host
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
excursion22@piefed.ca 46 minutes ago
Those second and third backups can really come in handy if something on the host blows up.
I’ve got my main PBS backups on an internal array on the host, secondary backups to an external HDD plugged into the host, then a third separate node (ThinkCentre mini-pc) backing up to a pair of HDDs I trade out monthly for an offsite copy.
I think it’s important to consider not backing up media, etc that you can relatively easily re-obtain. Makes the storage requirements for redundant backups a fair bit more palatable.