Proxmox Backup Solution – Backup & Protect Proxmox VMs

Cost-Effective Proxmox Backup Software for MSPs & Businesses

  • Agentless VM Backup for Proxmox virtual machines
  • Supports Backup for Proxmox Clusters
  • Automate the backup process with flexible scheduling
  • Store backups on local disk, NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc
  • Retain backups as long as you need
  • Advanced data security with end-to-end encryption
  • Centralized management and reporting capabilities
Backup 10 Proxmox VMs for Free | Supported Platforms: Proxmox VE 7.4 & above
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What is Proxmox Backup?

Proxmox Backup refers to the process of creating secure, reliable backups of your Proxmox virtual machines (VMs) and containers. Proxmox backup solution ensures that, in the event of system failure or data loss, you can quickly restore your Proxmox VMs and containers, minimizing downtime and maintaining business continuity.

BDRShield’s comprehensive Proxmox backup software enables seamless VM backup, fast recovery, and centralized management—designed for businesses and MSPs looking for a reliable and scalable data protection solution.

Deliver Profitable Backup as a Service (BaaS) & Managed Backup Service

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  • Files & Folders Backup
  • Disk Image Backup
  • SaaS Backup
  • Agentless VM Backup
  • Cloud VM Backup
  • Database/App Backup

Benefits of Proxmox VE Backup Solutions

Comprehensive Data Protection

Backup and protect your proxmox virtual machines (VMs) from data loss caused by cyberattacks, accidental deletion, corruption, or hardware failures.

Minimize Downtime

Ensure business continuity by restoring VMs instantly, reducing the impact of unexpected outages.

Ransomware Resilience

Protect backup data from ransomware attacks with encryption, immutability, and secure storage options, ensuring your backups remain untampered.

Key Features of Proxmox Backup Solution

Agentless Backup for Proxmox VE

Agentless VM Backup

Protect your virtual machines without the need for in-guest agents, simplifying backup and reducing resource consumption.

Proxmox Cluster Backup

Seamlessly backup VMs on Proxmox Cluster, even if they move between hosts within the cluster, ensuring uninterrupted protection.

Supported Disk Formats

Easily backup and restore virtual machines with support for widely used disk formats – qcow, raw, and vmdk.

CBT-Based Incremental Backup

BDRShield uses Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to backup only modified data, reducing backup time and storage usage.

Checksum-Based Incremental Backup

BDRShield leverages checksum as an addition mechanism for incremental backups for enhanced efficiency in case of CBT failures.

Flexible Storage Options

BDRShield supports wide range of storage options, allowing you to store your backed up data in local disk, NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc

Automated Backups

You can schedule automated backups with BDRShield to ensure consistent data protection. BDRShield offers flexible scheduling options, including every 15 mins, hourly, daily, weekly, & more.

Recovery of Proxmox VMs

Instant Boot VM

You can instantly restore the entire Proxmox VM from backup in less than 15 mins on same host or different ensuring business continuity.

Full VM Recovery

Restore the entire VM from the Proxmox VE backup data to same host or a different proxmox host .

Disk Mount

BDRShield provides the option to mount the backup disk and instantly recover individual files or folders using the Disk Mount option

File Level Recovery

You can choose to restore specific folders or files with BDRShield granular search file level recovery from any restore point

Download VMs & Disks

BDRShield supports downloading the backed up VMs/Disks into different virtual formats such as RAW, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, & Flat-VMDK which can be used for full VM recovery or VM migration

Management of Proxmox VE Backups

Data Retention

Retain backup data as per your requirement with flexible retention policies, which help in complying with the regulatory business policies.

Centralized Management

BDRShield offers centralized management allowing you to easily configure backups, monitor, and manage backup & recovery.

Reporting and Notifications

BDRShield enables you with constant reporting and email notifications to keep you informed about the status of your backup and recovery tasks.

Data Security

Protect your critical Proxmox VM backups both during and after the data transfer process with end-to-end encryption with AES 256 bit algorithm and backup storage protection techniques

Proxmox Disaster Recovery

Offsite Copy / DR

Securely replicate your Proxmox VM backups to a remote data center for added protection against on-site failures, ransomware, or disasters.

Cloud DR

Easily store a secondary copy of your Proxmox VM backups in the public cloud of your choice—or use our cost-effective BDRShield.

Supported Platforms

  • Proxmox VE 8.2
  • Proxmox VE 8.1
  • Proxmox VE 8.0
  • Proxmox VE 7.4

How Proxmox VE Backup Works

Step 1 – Agentless Backup

BDRShield provides agentless backup solution for Proxmox Virtual Environments, enabling native backups without need for agents in each VM.

Step 2 – Checkpoint Creation

BDRShield initiates backup by creating check points capturing the entire state of the VM including the OS ,disks, files etc ensuring data consistent backup.

Step 3 – Secure Data Transfer

The captured backup data is securely transferred to the designated backup repository – local storage (NAS, SAN, etc) or Cloud (S3, Azure Blob, Google, etc) as configured. Encryption is employed for a secure data transfer process, ensuring data integrity.

Step 4 – Incremental Backups

After the initial full backup this captures only the changes made since the last backup, reducing backup time and minimizing storage requirements.

Step 5 – Retention and Management

BDRShield offers both version based and day based retention policies, allowing organizations to flexibly retain their data

Step 6 – Proxmox VE Recovery

In time of disasters, BDRShield supports reliable and instant recovery. This includes restoring entire VMs, individual files or folders, providing comprehensive data restoration options.

How to Backup Proxmox Virtual Machines

BDRShield’s Proxmox backup solution offers comprehensive backup with agentless backup, data retention policies, flexible recovery ensuring complete protection to data in the Proxmox virtual environments
  1. Download BDRShield: Download and Install BDRShield Backup Server.
  2. Add Proxmox Host: Add Proxmox host as Data Sources on BDRShield, from which you want to backup.
  3. Configure backup storage: You can store the backup data on NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, S3 Compatible storage – Wasabi, MinIO, Backblaze, etc.
  4. Configure backup:
    • Select VMs for backup.
    • Automate backups at specific intervals.
    • Configure Retention & Encryption settings
  5. Save & Run the Backup Job: Backup will start to run as per the schedule.
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How to Restore Proxmox VMs from Backup

BDRShield offers various restore options to restore Proxmox VMs from backup. You can choose relying on the requirement as needed.
  1. Instant Boot VM: Instantly restore your entire Proxmox VM from backup in less than 15 minutes, to same host or different host ensuring business continuity
  2. Full VM Recovery: Restore the entire VM from Proxmox VE backup to the source or different Proxmox VE host in your environment
  3. Disk Mount: BDRShield allows you to mount the backup disk and recover specific files or folders, providing efficient recovery option
  4. Download VMs & Disks: BDRShield facilitates the download of backed-up VMs/Disks in multiple virtual formats, including RAW, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, and Flat-VMDK. These formats can be employed for comprehensive VM recovery or streamlined VM migration
  5. File Level Recovery:Recovery only the needed files/folders from the entire Vm backup reducing the business downtime and enhancing efficiency
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Proxmox Backup Best Practices

Automate Backups

Set automated, regular backups and use incremental backups to save storage space and improve efficiency.

Offsite Backup & Redundancy

Follow the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies of data, 2 on local storage, and 1 offsite (remote data center or cloud) for added security.

Test Your Backups

Regularly test restore operations to ensure your backups are reliable and can be quickly restored in case of failure.

Advanced Backup Security

Enable immutable backups, encrypt backups, enable MFA, define role-based access to keep backups secure from threats.

BDRShield vs Proxmox Backup Server – A Detailed Comparison

Dive into our comprehensive blog to explore the key differences between BDRShield and Proxmox Backup Server. From advanced features and flexibility to multi-tenant management, we break down everything you need to know to choose the best Proxmox backup software that meets all your needs.

Proxmox VE Backup and Recovery – FAQs

Proxmox Backup Server is a dedicated solution for backing up and restoring virtual machines (VMs), containers, and physical hosts within the Proxmox environment. However, it has some limitations in terms of flexibility and advanced features.To enhance your backup strategy, it is recommended to use a third-party Proxmox VE backup solution like BDRShield.

BDRShield’s Proxmox VE Backup offers a comprehensive set of features such as agentless backup, granular recovery, advanced scheduling, and extensive storage options, which can significantly improve the management and protection of your data.

  • Agentless backup for easier deployment and lower resource consumption
  • Flexible scheduling and advanced backup options for better control
  • It supports cross-platform environments, making it more versatile
  • Options to store backups in multiple destinations & locations
  • Scalability ensures it can grow with your environment
  • The free version allows backing up up to 10 Proxmox VMs, making it accessible for small setups

BDRShield’s Proxmox VM backup software allows you to automate backups with flexible scheduling options such as Every 15mins, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, ensuring that backups are taken regularly without manual intervention.

You can backup Proxmox hosts & virtual machines using BDRShield’s Proxmox backup solution, which supports agentless backup of individual VMs and the entire host. Set up automated backup schedules to ensure regular backups, use the flexible storage options for your backup destination and centrally manage all your backups with BDRShield.

A Proxmox cluster is a group of Proxmox servers (nodes) connected together to work as a unified system. It enables centralized management, load balancing, and resource sharing between nodes, improving scalability and availability for virtual machines and containers. BDRShield supports Proxmox cluster backup

No, BDRShield does not currently support container backup in Proxmox. It focuses on backing up virtual machines (VMs) within the Proxmox VE environment.

The best backup method for Proxmox is agentless backup, which is offered by BDRShield for efficient, secure, and easy-to-manage backups without the need for additional agents running on the VMs.

With BDRShield’s Proxmox backup software, you can easily backup your entire Proxmox server, including all VMs, through its agentless backup solution.

Yes. With BDRShield’s free edition, you can backup up to 10 Proxmox VMs for free.

BDRShield allows you to easily recover Proxmox virtual machines to a previous state from your backup with multiple recovery options such as instant VM restore, full VM recovery, file level recovery.

Yes, BDRShield supports Proxmox cluster backup. It allows you to backup all virtual machines within a Proxmox cluster efficiently, using its agentless backup solution. BDRShield offers flexible scheduling and storage options for both individual VMs and entire clusters, ensuring your Proxmox environment is well-protected with minimal manual intervention.

The best Proxmox backup solution is BDRShield, offering agentless backups, flexible scheduling, the ability to store backups locally or in the cloud, centralized management and more.

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