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Install Proxmox Backup Server in an LXC Container

Jamie Banks

Sep 14, 2024 — 1 min read

Instructions for installing Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) inside of an LXC container. This is a lightweight way to run PBS.

Installation

Create a Debian 12 LXC with a minimum of 2 cores and 2GB of RAM.

For storage, I like to have the main filesystem on SSD then the storage that I'll later use for the PBS data on my hard drives a little something like this...

Once it has booted, proceed with the following instructions...

Update the system

apt update
apt dist-upgrade -y

Add the repository key

wget https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg

Add the repo to the sources

echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs bookworm pbs-no-subscription" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Update the package cache and install Proxmox Backup Server

apt update
apt install proxmox-backup-server -y

Once the command has finished, you should then be able to access the web UI on port 8007

Setup

Once you've reached the PBS login screen, you'll want to login using the username root and the same password as the one that you used to setup the LXC container.

Once logged in, you'll need to click Add Datastore in the menu on the left side of the screen.

Then just fill this in as normal by giving it a name and setting the backing path value to something such as /srv

At this point, you're ready to point your Proxmox host at your PBS LXC for backups.

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