Proxmox Backup Server - a good home for ProxLB?

[Pauliehedron]

Learned about the project from your mastodon posts, much excite!

It got me thinking that the PBS may be a great place to host the app, since it's a bare metal separate install that is idle most of the time in my single node + PBS setup I have at home. (I run HP EliteDesk 800 G4 (1 liter) PCs)

But one thing I'm unsure of is how the backup jobs would work with dynamic guest placement, as the backup jobs look like they are tied to the node today. I'm thinking this would need to be something Proxmox will need to add to their API to be able to map the backup store with the guest vs node-guest.

Thanks again for making such a sorely needed feature!

[gyptazy]

Hey @Pauliehedron,

thanks for your post and using ProxLB! Sure, you can also run this on a Proxmox Backup Server and there's no issue by doing it so. I also to it that way :)

ProxLB fully utilizes the Proxmox API and only uses native ways (e.g. the VM migration). In a Proxmox cluster - by default, you never need to take care of moving VMs around the cluster. The Proxmox Backup Server (as long as you do not define a spefici node scope) is available on all nodes in a cluster. This means, you can move the VM around the nodes in this cluster and Proxmox Backup Server still backs up the assigned VMs. No further adjustments needed!

Cheers,
gyptazy