Proxmox Backup and Recovery Solution (Coming Soon)

Agentless Backup and Recovery for Proxmox Virtual Machines with BDRSuite

  • Agentless VM Backup for Proxmox virtual machines
  • Flexibile data recovery options including Full VM, File level, and more
  • Automate the backup process with flexible scheduling
  • Store backups on local disk, NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc
  • Retain backups as long as you need
  • Advanced data security with end-to-end encryption
  • Centralized management and reporting capabilities
Supported Versions:QEMU 4.2.0 & above

What is Proxmox Backup?

Proxmox VE backup is process of protecting your Proxmox virtual machines & its data by making copies of data and storing it in a secure location. The backups can be restored in case of any disaster events ensuring business continuity.

Benefits of Proxmox VE Backup Solutions

With BDRSuite’s Proxmox Backup, businesses and MSPs can schedule and automate backup tasks, ensuring critical data is safeguarded at all times. The ability to monitor Proxmox backup status from BDRSuite’s centralized console provides peace of mind, knowing that their virtualized environment is protected.

Comprehensive Backup Solution

Backup important business data by establishing comprehensive secure backups, minimizing the data loss.

Flexible Storage Options

This flexibility allows users to store backup data on various storage mediums, including local storage, network-attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), or cloud storage like S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc.

Instant Recovery

Rapidly restore data from backups, ensuring business continuity and protecting business from data loss

Key Features of Proxmox Backup Solution

VE Backup for Proxmox Hypervisor

Robust VM Protection

BDRSuite delivers robust protection for your Proxmox virtual machines with various advanced features, including agentless backup, incremental backups & more.

Flexible Storage Options

BDRSuite supports wide range of storage options, allowing you to store your backed up data in local disk, NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc

Automated Backups

You can schedule automated backups with BDRSuite to ensure consistent data protection. BDRSuite offers flexible scheduling options, including every 15 mins, hourly, daily, weekly, & more.

Data Security

Protect your critical Proxmox VM backups both during and after the data transfer process with end-to-end encryption with AES 256 bit algorithm and backup storage protection techniques

Recovery of Proxmox VMs

Instant Boot VM

You can instantly restore the entire Proxmox VM from backup in less than 15 mins on same host or different ensuring business continuity.

Disk Mount

BDRSuite provides the option to mount the backup disk and instantly recover individual files or folders using the Disk Mount option

File Level Recovery

You can choose to restore specific folders or files with BDRSuite granular search file level recovery from any restore point

Download VMs & Disks

BDRSuite supports downloading the backed up VMs/Disks into different virtual formats such as RAW, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, & Flat-VMDK which can be used for full VM recovery or VM migration

Management of Proxmox VE Backups

Data Retention

Retain backup data as per your requirement with flexible retention policies, which help in complying with the regulatory business policies.

Centralized Management

BDRSuite offers centralized management allowing you to easily configure backups, monitor, and manage backup & recovery.

Reporting and Notifications

BDRSuite enables you with constant reporting and email notifications to keep you informed about the status of your backup and recovery tasks.

How Proxmox VE Backup Works

Step 1 – Agentless Proxmox Backup

BDRSuite provides agentless backup solution for Proxmox Virtual Environments, enabling native backups without need for agents in each VM.

Step 2 – Snapshot Creation

BDRSuite backup with snapshot process, capturing the complete state, including OS, disks, files, etc.

Step 3 – Secure Data Transfer

The captured backup data is securely transferred to the designated backup repository – local storage (NAS, SAN, etc) or Cloud (S3, Azure Blob, Google, etc) as configured. Encryption is employed for a secure data transfer process, ensuring data integrity.

Step 4 – Incremental Backups

After the initial full backup this captures only the changes made since the last backup, reducing backup time and minimizing storage requirements.

Step 5 – Retention and Management

BDRSuite offers both version based and day based retention policies, allowing organizations to flexibly retain their data

Step 6 – Proxmox VE Recovery

In time of disasters, BDRSuite supports reliable and instant recovery. This includes restoring entire VMs, individual files or folders, providing comprehensive data restoration options.

How to Backup Proxmox Virtual Machines

BDRSuite’s Proxmox backup solution offers comprehensive backup with agentless backup, data retention policies, flexible recovery ensuring complete protection to data in the Proxmox virtual environments
  1. Download BDRSuite: Download and Install BDRSuite Backup Server.
  2. Add Proxmox Host: Add Proxmox host as Data Sources on BDRSuite, from which you want to backup.
  3. Configure backup storage: You can store the backup data on NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, S3 Compatible storage – Wasabi, MinIO, Backblaze, etc.
  4. Configure backup:
    • Select VMs for backup.
    • Automate backups at specific intervals.
    • Configure Retention & Encryption settings
  5. Save & Run the Backup Job: Backup will start to run as per the schedule.

How to Restore Proxmox VMs from Backup

BDRSuite offers various restore options to restore Proxmox VMs from backup. You can choose relying on the requirement as needed.
  1. Instant Boot VM:Instantly restore your entire Proxmox VM from backup in less than 15 minutes, to same host or different host ensuring business continuity.
  2. Disk Mount: BDRSuite allows you to mount the backup disk and recover specific files or folders, providing efficient recovery option.
  3. Download VMs & Disks: BDRSuite facilitates the download of backed-up VMs/Disks in multiple virtual formats, including RAW, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, and Flat-VMDK. These formats can be employed for comprehensive VM recovery or streamlined VM migration.
  4. File Level Recovery:Recovery only the needed files/folders from the entire Vm backup reducing the business downtime and enhancing efficiency.