I know about pbs, I even have an IP set aside for it :) I do have the built-in proxmox backup function take nightly snapshots or my important vms to my nas, but I don’t have anything really put together. Also, nothing for my nas itself. It is configured in a raid 5, but as we all know, raid is not backup :)
One day, after I am done with <insert reason here>, I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.
My backup concept is on the to-do list. Been there for a couple years. I do have triple pihole/caddy/haproxy/redis for high availability on a triple node proxmox cluster! necessary? no. cool, though? heck yeah! friends and family impressed? uhm… what was the question?
I use the reporting tools on my opnsense box.
igb0 / yearly
year rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
2023 33.97 TiB | 22.90 TiB | 56.87 TiB | 15.86 Mbit/s
2024 110.69 TiB | 32.26 TiB | 142.95 TiB | 39.76 Mbit/s
2025 22.20 GiB | 7.14 GiB | 29.34 GiB | 4.35 Mbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
I’m actually doing the opposite :)
I’ve been using vms, lxc containers and docker for years. In the last 3 years or so, I’ve slowly moved to just docker containers. I still have a few vms, of course, but they only run docker :)
Containers are a breeze to update, there is no dependency hell, no separate vms for each app…
More recently, I’ve been trying out kubernetes. Mostly to learn and experiment, since I use it at work.
For live monitoring (not offline!), maybe dozzle can help?