Connect a remote PBS and sync from the dashboard

The Remotes section connects your own on-premise Proxmox Backup Server to the Cloud-PBS dashboard, so you can monitor its datastores and synchronize backups, all from one place. This is the dashboard-driven method; you can also configure a push job from your PBS web UI directly, see configure synchronization.

Add a remote PBS

Open Remotes and add an instance. You provide:

• Host: the address of your PBS, with port (for example 10.0.1.5:8007).
• Name: a label to recognize it.
• API token and secret: a token on your PBS that Cloud-PBS uses to connect (an Auth ID like root@pam!cloudpbs and its secret).

The dashboard tests the connection before saving. Once added, the instance appears with its connection status.

Monitor a remote

Open a connected remote to see:

• Overview: the remote datastore’s usage and storage history (12h to 1 year).
• Backups: browse its snapshots by namespace and group, with verification status.

Create a sync job

On the remote’s Sync tab you can create two kinds of job:

• Pull: Cloud-PBS pulls backups from your remote PBS into a Cloud-PBS datastore. A good way to keep an off-site copy of your on-premise backups.
• Push: Cloud-PBS pushes backups to your remote PBS.

The wizard lets you pick the source and destination datastore (a destination on Cloud-PBS can be an existing datastore or a new one), and a schedule: hourly, daily, or a custom systemd calendar expression. For pull jobs you can also enable remove-vanished to mirror deletions.

Run and monitor jobs

From the Sync tab you can:

• Run a job now, without waiting for its schedule.
• See all jobs (pull and push) with their source, destination, schedule and status.
• Open a job’s history (status, duration), view or download an execution log, and stop a running task.
• Delete a job.

Remove a remote

The remote’s Danger zone removes the connection from Cloud-PBS. Removing the remote does not touch the data on your on-premise PBS.