Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 public released

Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution, for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space. With strong encryption and methods of ensuring data integrity, you are safe when backing up data, even to targets which are not fully trusted.

In modern datacenters, the primary focus is on minimizing downtime and keeping data safe. For this reason, reliable backup software is among the most essential infrastructure components that you can invest in. To increase productivity, the easy-to-use Proxmox Backup Server lets you back up your data in a space-efficient manner, restore it in a flash, and effectively reduce work hours thanks to simplified management with a web-based user interface.

• Based on Debian Buster (10.6)
• Kernel 5.4 LTS
• ZFS 0.8.4

• Backup & Restore (core functionality):
  • Deduplication
    Periodic backups produce large amounts of duplicate data. The deduplication layer avoids redundancy and minimizes the used storage space. Deduplication is performed per datastore.
  • Incremental backups
    Changes between backups are typically small. Reading and sending only the delta reduces the storage and network impact of backups.
  • Data Integrity
    The built in SHA-256 checksum algorithm ensures the accuracy and consistency of your backups.
  • Compression
    The ultra-fast Zstandard compression is able to compress several gigabytes of data per second.
  • Encryption
    Backups can be encrypted on the client-side using AES-256 in Galois/Counter mode. This authenticated encryption mode provides very high performance on modern hardware.
  • Verification
    Backups on disk can be verified with the stored SHA-256 checksums to protect against corruption and bitrot. This can be scheduled periodically including regular re-verification.
  • Remote Sync
    It is possible to efficiently synchronize data from remote sites. Only deltas containing new data are transferred. Optimized and tested for high-latency links.
  • Performance
    The whole software stack is written in Rust, to provide high speed and memory efficiency.
  • Open Source
    Proxmox Backup Server is free and open-source software. The source code is licensed under GNU AGPL, v3.
  • And of course – Backups can be restored comfortably!
• Proxmox VE Integration
  • Support for incremental, deduplicated backups of qemu virtual machines (supporting QEMU dirty bitmaps) and containers.
  • Simply configurable as a Storage Backend on Proxmox VE
  • Granular restore:
    • Mapping for QEMU virtual disks to loop back block devices
    • File-level restore of container backups
  • Current backup state is preserved across migrations inside Proxmox VE
• Enterprise support
  With the release of version 1.0, support subscriptions for Proxmox Backup Server are available, providing access to the stable Enterprise Repository (recommended for production use) and to technical support from the Proxmox team.
• Web interface
  Manage Proxmox backups with the integrated, web-based user interface.
  • Start operations from within the views in which they are relevant
  • Widgets in the GUI provide useful popups when you hoover over (e.g., individual states in the task summary, on the dashboard)
  • Improved and mature user experience in the GUI – many features known from other Proxmox products were ported to the new Rust code-base to provide the same level of comfort during daily work:
    • Online reference documentation for the current version, available in the GUI via the Help button
    • System console via xterm.js
    • System updates and changelogs
    • Display of the system’s journal
• Scheduling
  • Management and scheduling of maintenance tasks provides all the settings necessary to just configure it once and not have to think about it
  • Scheduling based on the flexible systemd-time specification
• E-mail notifications for scheduled background tasks (verification, pruning, garbage collection, sync jobs).
• Vastly improved user interface
• Sensible encryption-key handling
  • Proxmox Backup Server encryption keys are stored as simple json files, and can be easily stored off-site for disaster recover purposes
  • They can also be exported as QR-codes for printing on paper and storing off-line
• Flexible Access Control:
  • Support for fine-grained ACLs for separate users on different objects (datastores, remotes, system configuration)
  • Token based authentication with reduced privileges:
    A user can create tokens with a subset of their privileges, instead of having to store their password on a client