Deploy Proxmox Backup Server on ARM64

As we known, Proxmox doesn’t provide Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) for machine or server with ARM64 Architecture. But, past time i think my Orange Pi 5 Plus cannot implement PBS for backup my Virtual Machine in Proxmox.

For many times to find the best solution, thanks for @wofferl on Github repository that provide configuration for implement PBS on ARM64 machine, and this trully works on my Board. Below step to implement PBS from related Github repository.

git clone https://github.com/wofferl/proxmox-backup-arm64 && cd proxmox-backup-arm64

./build.sh download

sudo apt install dpkg-dev

cd packages/
ls
    libjs-extjs_7.0.0-4_all.deb		pbs-i18n_3.2.4_all.deb			 proxmox-backup-file-restore_3.2.9-1_arm64.deb	proxmox-termproxy_1.0.1_arm64.deb
    libjs-qrcodejs_1.20230525-pve1_all.deb	proxmox-backup-client_3.2.9-1_arm64.deb  proxmox-backup-server_3.2.9-1_arm64.deb	proxmox-widget-toolkit_4.2.4_all.deb
    libproxmox-acme-plugins_1.5.1_all.deb	proxmox-backup-docs_3.2.9-1_all.deb	 proxmox-mini-journalreader_1.4.0_arm64.deb	pve-xtermjs_5.3.0-3_all.de

sudo apt install \
      ./libjs-extjs_*_all.deb \
      ./libjs-qrcodejs_*_all.deb \
      ./libproxmox-acme-plugins_*_all.deb \
      ./pbs-i18n_*_all.deb \
      ./proxmox-backup-docs_*_all.deb \
      ./proxmox-backup-server_*_arm64.deb \
      ./proxmox-mini-journalreader_*_arm64.deb \
      ./proxmox-widget-toolkit_*_all.deb \
      ./proxmox-termproxy_*_arm64.deb \
      ./pve-xtermjs_*_all.deb

Waiting for installation to complete, then access on <ipaddress>:8007, now Proxmox backup server has successfully install on your ARM64 Machine.

proxmoxbackupclient_go.exe -baseurl "https://172.16.20.222:8007" -certfingerprint "89:e4:1e:1f:25:1c:ec:37:56:cf:00:ce:7f:8c" -authid "root@pam!regi" -secret "581a410b-7a85-40f1-86ef-9bfef56eb1ce" -backupdir "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads" -datastore "backup"

For setting and configuration on Proxmox backup server, on Access control, first we create api token,

Then add permission to that API token, in this example we add Role as a Admin to Api Token that previously create,

And last but not least, make sure that pbs have datastore to store the backup, as we can see on image below, data/directory backup from windows has successfully shown on proxmox backup server,

Backup VM on Proxmox VE with Proxmox Backup Server

Proxmox VE can provide virtual machines for purposes such as application deployment, where the more our application data grows, the more risk our data will have if something undesirable happens, therefore we need to do a backup solution for our data or our virtual machine.

On Proxmox Ve itself we can configure and add special storage used for backup purposes, so below is how to implement a virtual machine backup on the Proxmox Ve side using PBS.

First, get the Fingerprint of Proxmox Backup Server on dashboard menu, then can copy to clipboard,

Then, on the Proxmox VE, go to datastore and choose Storage menu, on related menu, we can add new storage with option Proxmox Backup Server,

We can add id of the new storage, server of Proxmox Backup Server hosted, username and password of Proxmox Backup Server, and the Datastore name, don't forget to paste Fingerprint that we previously copy from PBS,

After successfully creating new storage on Proxmox VE, we can add backup configuration on every Virtual Machine on related Node, example below add new backup configuration on example VM and we can choose Storage related with backup id that previously created,

Now virtual machine on Proxmox VE can backup with Promox Backup Server, for make sure the VM has successfully backup, we can check on PBS Datastore content, example below as we can seen VM has successfully backup to the Proxmox Backup Server,