--- title: "Proxmox Backup Server is the boring home lab upgrade that made me less afraid to break things" url: https://daily.dev/posts/proxmox-backup-server-is-the-boring-home-lab-upgrade-that-made-me-less-afraid-to-break-things-hxyzppueq source_url: https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-backup-server-is-the-boring-home-lab-upgrade-that-made-me-less-afraid-to-break-things type: article source: "XDA Developers" published: 2026-06-13T17:35:29.133Z updated: 2026-06-14T08:19:32.930Z tags: ["infrastructure", "homelab", "proxmox"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 4 comments: 2 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Proxmox Backup Server is the boring home lab upgrade that made me less afraid to break things **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** 路 5 min read 路 4 upvotes 路 2 comments ## Summary Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) offers significant advantages over Proxmox's built-in vzdump backups for home lab setups running multiple LXCs and VMs. Key benefits include incremental snapshots and deduplication that dramatically reduce storage consumption, live restoration and file-level recovery tools, and sync tasks that enable 3-2-1 backup workflows across local and remote PBS nodes. The author runs PBS on an inexpensive N100 mini-PC with 4TB of HDDs and uses Tailscale to connect a remote offsite PBS instance. While vzdump remains a viable option for newcomers, PBS becomes near-essential for more complex Proxmox environments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@akkitto** 路 0 upvotes > Still using [BorgBack](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) on my side. 馃檪 **@hunordori** 路 0 upvotes > After I realized I can do PBS in TrueNas, I never looked back. I thought it is redundant until I had to restore just one file. > > Also good to see the 33.41 deduplication ratio. 馃槍 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Proxmox Backup Server is the wrong default for small home labs](https://daily.dev/posts/proxmox-backup-server-is-the-wrong-default-for-small-home-labs-9rwdkbald) 路 XDA Developers 路 0 upvotes 路 1 comments - [My Proxmox backups stopped being a storage nightmare with this workaround](https://daily.dev/posts/my-proxmox-backups-stopped-being-a-storage-nightmare-with-this-workaround-cxw3bmesc) 路 XDA Developers 路 0 upvotes 路 0 comments --- Tags: [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#homelab](https://daily.dev/tags/homelab), [#proxmox](https://daily.dev/tags/proxmox) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/proxmox-backup-server-is-the-boring-home-lab-upgrade-that-made-me-less-afraid-to-break-things-hxyzppueq)