Your Proxmox backup job probably skips the guests you built after you made it. Here's the 3-2-1 setup that doesn't
I ran a Proxmox homelab for years with a backup job that reported success every night. It had been created for "selected VMs" and every guest I built after that was simply not in the list. The job was fine. It was protecting the wrong things. This is the setup I run now for a home Proxmox cluster with OPNsense and Home Assistant on it. Nothing exotic: vzdump, Proxmox Backup Server, rclone, and a…
The Proxmox backup job may unintentionally exclude recently created VMs. This issue was discovered by the author after years of running a Proxmox homelab with a backup job that reported success daily. The job was in fact protecting the wrong data. The author now uses a different backup setup with OPNsense and Home Assistant on their Proxmox cluster. The setup includes vzdump, Proxmox Backup Server, rclone, and proper monitoring to ensure backups are always successful.
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