Comment on Proxmox vs. TrueNAS Scale
tmjaea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just my 2 cents:
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Proxmox. Flexibility for both new services via VM/LXC and backups (just install proxmox backup server alongside and you get incremental backups with nice retention settings, file-restore capabilities as well as backup consistency checks)
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If it’s in a VM/container you don’t need to worry about backups, see 1.
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In this case isn’t it sufficient to be able to access the data via Windows network?
machinin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
By a backup server, is that an additional component to my proxmox install? Could I back things up to the offsite Synology? I assume it isn’t a separate box on the network?
In what ways is proxmox virtualization more flexible than TrueNas? I thought it was fairly similar for basic things (my use case). I do realize they are built for different purposes, I just don’t need a lot of virtualization.
For some reason I’ve never had luck setting up network shares for Windows on my network. I should really figure that out.
Thanks for the response. I’ll check it the backup server in more detail.
anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You setup Proxmox Backup Server on separate hardware and then you add it as a storage option in your Proxmox Virtualization Server.
I haven’t dived into it but I imagine you could run the Proxmox Backup Server as a VM in your Synology NAS.
www.proxmox.com/images/…/proxmox-backup-3-1.pdf
machinin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks for the clarification and the other information. It’s helpful.