I got a cheap storages boxes like 1TB NAT for 10$/y and I had to put it into use.
However not fully trusting them with raw vm images, so PGP will do.

The backups are pgp encrypted before they are getting pulled by the storage server.
The proxmox host has never any access to the backup server and the backup server never has any access to the vm images since they are encrypted.

Whatever gets compromised, your should still be safe, that's the idea.
Downside is obviously, disk usage, for every backup we do in Proxmox, we have to do another encrypted copy and wait for the backup server to pull it before we can clear the disk space.

This can easily be done by using the Proxmox hooks, so you can configure your backup schedule like you normaly would do, only the STOREID has to match.
The only thing you have to tweak is, the backup server when it has to pull the backups.

1. Install the hook.

I do daily/weekly offside backups and keep them for 4 weeks.
Example for weekly, script can be modded though.

https://pastebin.com/raw/31jMWKTz
Wouldn't format properly...

Put the script to /usr/local/bin/vzdump-hook.sh and make it executable.
Don't forget to create the user "weekly" and the folder structure (/mnt/weekly/dump/ or whatever folder you want to use)
You also should install and ssh key for the backup server to be able to login into the user "weekly".

In my case, Proxmox creates usuable backups to /mnt/weekly/dump and the encrypted ones are put to /home/weekly/backups for pulling.

2. Edit /etc/vzdump.conf

Replace
#script: FILENAME
with
script: /usr/local/bin/vzdump-hook.sh

3. Either generate or import a existing pgp key

gpg --gen-key

or

gpg --import mahkey

Make SURE you backup this key.

4. Make a test backup and check if the encrypted backup is there.
There should be zero errors in the proxmox backup log.

If you do, you might have to trust that pgp key.
gpg --edit-key mahkey
and type "trust"

5. Setup a cronjob on the remote storage server

5 5 * * * /home/weekly/backups.sh

You might have to adjust the time.
rsync will do.

#!/bin/bash
set -e
if pgrep -fl backup.sh &>/dev/null; then
        rsync -Pav -e "ssh -i weekly" weekly@mahserverip:/home/weekly/backups/* /home/weekly/backups/
        find /home/weekly/backups/* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} +
fi

Don't forgot to make it executable and do a testrun.

6. Profit.

Thanks for reading my TED TALK.

There's something in the docs here but that method seems to be unavailable for regular users: https://docs.directadmin.com/directadmin/backup-restore-migration/backup-to-remote.html

Am I missing something?

Otherwise, my idea is to try to create a script which triggers a manual backup over the DirectAdmin API, waits for a while and then downloads the backup. But maybe anyone already has such script and would be willing to share it?

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Sun Sep 24 19:40:01 BST 2023

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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes
Processor  : AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 2 @ 4499.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 200.0 GiB
Distro     : Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx)
Kernel     : 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Layer
ASN        : Unknown
Host       : Layer
Location   : Spokane, Washington (WA)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 492.56 MB/s (123.1k) | 3.04 GB/s    (47.5k)
Write      | 493.86 MB/s (123.4k) | 3.05 GB/s    (47.7k)
Total      | 986.43 MB/s (246.6k) | 6.09 GB/s    (95.2k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 3.49 GB/s     (6.8k) | 3.90 GB/s     (3.8k)
Write      | 3.67 GB/s     (7.1k) | 4.16 GB/s     (4.0k)
Total      | 7.16 GB/s    (14.0k) | 8.06 GB/s     (7.8k)

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 2903                          
Multi Core      | 5079                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2756562

YABS completed in 5 min 20 sec

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 ISP: NeroCloud 

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 Kochi, IN        279.56 ms   0.0%    2581.98 Mbps   338.03 Mbps    Asianet Broadband - Cochin 
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 Mumbai, IN       261.62 ms   0.0%    3193.94 Mbps   313.69 Mbps    i3D.net - Mumbai 
 Delhi, IN        278.85 ms   0.0%    2259.47 Mbps   320.10 Mbps    Tata Teleservices Ltd - New Delhi 

 Seattle, US      FAILED                                                        
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 Dallas, US       59.33 ms    0.0%    2797.98 Mbps   1145.75 Mbps   Hivelocity - Dallas, TX 
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 New York, US     82.01 ms    0.0%    9237.75 Mbps   3764.87 Mbps   GSL Networks - New York, NY 
 Toronto, CA      60.45 ms    0.0%    3935.20 Mbps   1409.81 Mbps   Rogers - Toronto, ON 

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 Warsaw, PL       160.91 ms   0.0%    4493.23 Mbps   565.89 Mbps    UPC Polska - Warszawa 
 Bucharest, RO    191.34 ms   0.0%    4914.00 Mbps   474.85 Mbps    Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest 

 Jeddah, KSA      210.53 ms   0.0%    8105.85 Mbps   1713.57 Mbps   Saudi Telecom Company 
 Dubai, AE        250.09 ms   0.0%    3969.53 Mbps   864.89 Mbps    du - Dubai  
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 Tokyo, JP        113.70 ms   N/A     3170.14 Mbps   348.02 Mbps    fdcservers.net - Tokyo 
 Shenyang, CU-CN  231.06 ms   6.0%    514.92 Mbps    1.98 Mbps      Unicom - Shenyang 
 Nanjing, CT-CN   197.98 ms   0.0%    3696.06 Mbps   230.42 Mbps    China Telecom JiangSu 5G - Nanjing 
 Hong Kong, HKG   159.97 ms   N/A     3102.89 Mbps   597.39 Mbps    STC - Hong Kong 
 Singapore, SG    189.90 ms   0.3%    1939.90 Mbps   73.85 Mbps     i3D.net - Singapore 
 Jakarta, ID      209.42 ms   0.0%    4101.16 Mbps   316.27 Mbps    PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia - Jakarta 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Avg DL Speed       : 4927.38 Mbps
 Avg UL Speed       : 900.14 Mbps

 Total DL Data      : 182.81 GB
 Total UL Data      : 32.65 GB
 Total Data         : 215.46 GB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

[root@spk-looking-glass ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test_$$ bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -f test_$$
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.230739 s, 4.7 GB/s
[root@spk-looking-glass ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test_$$ bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -f test_$$
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.236093 s, 4.5 GB/s
[root@spk-looking-glass ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test_$$ bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -f test_$$
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.265576 s, 4.0 GB/s

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Are there any cheap alternatives to IDrive?

I have been using IDrive Backup for years. It's really cheap with 10TB for $5 if you create a new account every year.
I have added IDrive e2 within the last year for two separate offsite locations, and it's coming up for renewal soon. I expect I will also be able to get 1TB for $4 again if I sign up for a new account under a different email.

I mainly backup from a Synology NAS so Degoo and Prism etc. will not be an option.

/Tom

I am looking for offers around $10/month but can go a little bit higher if necessary. Currently I am estimating my backup size at 1.8 TB, so I would prefer 3 TB+ unless the storage is increased periodically like the Servarica VPS.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

BorgBase offers simple and secure offsite backups based on Borg Backup:

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Wanted to get some advice on files to exclude for plesk backups, we don't want our backups growing exponetially with unwanted files

Is this enough ?

.gz
.jpa
*.log
*.bkup
*.sql
*.tar
*.tar.gz
*.zip
*/com_akeeba/backup/
/core.[0-9]
httpdocs/cache/
softaculous_backups/*
/wp-content/cache/
/wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha/
/wp-content/widget-cache/
.wpress
*/wptsc-cachedir/
/.wysiwygPro_

My former backup-server ran out of space, so now i need something bigger.

Minimum:

• 3 (v)CPU (With AES-NI enabled)
• 4GB ECC-RAM
• 2-3TB Storage with good I/O for tons of small data (the more, the better)
• Support for VNC or similar
• Bandwidth at least 500mbit
• Location: Germany, or somewhere else in Europe with good connection to Hetzners Falkenstein Location

Price: 13-17USD/Month

Ideally I'd like the server to be in the UK but Europe is fine, I'd prefer it to be a KVM server. It won't be running any services like http or mysql, the only traffic it will see is me syncing files to the server or pulling down a backup.

So anything from 250GB to 1TB space is needed paid monthly or annually for a bigger saving 😁

Im currently searching for a good VPS for Proxmox Backup Server. This would need:

• 2x CPU
• 4GB RAM ECC
• 1TB Storage (doesn't need to be SSD, but it needs good I/O)
• 1Gbit connection, 4TB Bandwidth
• Location: Europe, or just somewhere with good connection to Hetzners Falkenstein location
• Price: 8-10€/Month, 6-Month contract period when needed

This week I’ve written an article on setting up Duplicati backups, hopefully it will help some of you guys

https://cyberhost.uk/duplicati-backup

If you haven’t got backups running, you should definitely get some sorted unless you like a bit of data loss!

Best Wishes,
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Do you guys encrypt these Files?

What does your setup look like?

Do you know any backup plugins for Direct Admin that supports FTP Backups which runs on Debian 10 ?
JetBackup - Not Supported
Dabackup- No remote ftp backup

My need is not immediate.

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Our new RAID-10 NVMe virtual servers will be perfect for those I/O intensive applications, such as SQL, Redis, etc. We plan on launching this service by the end of this week, or the beginning to middle of next week.

The new block storage will be sold as an add-on to any of our dedicated servers, VPS or colocation services. The block storage is powered by HGST HelioSeal SAS drives in a mirrored ZFS configuration. (RAID-10 equivalent) It will be a perfect way to add some inexpensive extra storage to your servers. This service is planned to be launched as soon as our developers have completed our billing module. We're hoping to have this service launched within the next 3-4 weeks.

Keep your eyes open for announcements and product launch sales!

*Please note, initially these products will only be available in Phoenix, AZ.

For example:
A VPS at Contabo with 2 cores, 4 GB RAM and 300GB SSD is 3.99€ a month. Fair enough, not a bad price at all.
While ordering above mentioned VPS, you can add backup space. That is a separate storage accessible via ftp/sftp where you can store backups. For 100GB of backup storage, the monthly fee increases with 3.99€.
Now this doesn't make sense to me. Instead of paying for 100GB of storage only, I could buy a complete second VPS and get 3 times the storage for the same price!

I have seen similar pricing on a lot of other providers, and I just cant figure out why backup storage costs equal to or often a lot more then a complete VPS.
Why is backup space/secondary storage so damn expensive?

Currently we automate all of our backups using an Ansible role that manages our borgbackup server along with all of the borg clients. It adds/modifies scripts and crons on the clients (hypervisors) based on the variables we set and makes sure the clients can SSH into an unprivileged user and only access a specific directory as specified in .ssh/authorized_keys so it can push all of the data into a borg repo. Before it runs the borg portion of the script though, another tool on Proxmox (vzdump) backups up all of the VMs daily to the local disk and compresses them with pigz (multi-threaded gzip). Borg will then send all of the specified directories & files to our remote borg server for safe keeping.

I just added support for rclone so that after the all of the clients finish their backups for the day, it will do a weekly rclone sync on the borg server to our bucket on Wasabi object storage. I picked Wasabi, because they don't charge for egress (outgoing bandwidth). So in the event of a major disaster and we've lost our borg server, we could retrieve our borg repos from Wasabi.

Are they doing the restoration manually? What holds them not to automate this ?