Topic: BackupPC and the smeserver-template

[stephdl]

Hi @all

I'm working to change my online server and I'm looking for a backup solution for the SME Server I want to use through a Proxmox instance (KVM)

Firstable I used BackupPC with the 'smeserver-template' but after the backup/restoration to another host I couldn't validate the file system verification, probably because the UID of /dev/main/root is different.

The documentation of smeserver-backuppc doesn't cover this chapter, do I need to launch a signal-event after ?

I tried

 1) signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
or
 2) signal-event post-backup;signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

with the same issues....

If you have some clues

alternatively I would know which backup solution I could use instead of this one.

Rsync of /home/e-smith/files/users since my concern is principally for emails ????
I'm listening you ?

[stephdl]

If you have some clues

looking forward several  solutions

a) the kvm backup script of daniel cannot be used (as is), since proxmox doesn't use libvirt.
b) proxmox comes with a built in solution of backups, I'm testing it

[DanB35]

I'm fond of pve-zsync myself, but it does require that your VM be on a ZFS datastore, and that the backup destination also be using ZFS. I back up my SME instance to my FreeNAS box this way.