Managed Proxmox Backup Server
Dedicated PBS datastores hosted and operated by Proxmox experts. Keep your Proxmox VE backup workflow unchanged. Skip the hardware, the patching, and the on-call.
A managed Proxmox Backup Server is a fully operated PBS instance, running real Proxmox Backup Server software, hosted by a third party who handles the hardware, the OS, the PBS upgrades, the monitoring, and the support. You add it to Proxmox VE as a remote datastore and your existing backup, verify, prune, and sync jobs keep working with zero code changes.
What is a managed Proxmox Backup Server?
Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) is the backup companion to Proxmox VE. It stores virtual machine and container backups with deduplication, compression, client-side encryption, and content-addressable verification. Running PBS in-house means provisioning hardware (usually a dedicated server with ECC RAM and a lot of disk), installing and patching Debian, keeping pve-backup-client compatible across PVE releases, and watching the storage fill up.
A managed PBS service takes that work off your plate. Cloud-PBS operates real PBS instances on our own infrastructure, exposes them to your Proxmox VE hosts as remote datastores, and handles the rest. You keep using the native Proxmox tools you already know. The product you interact with is PBS itself, not a wrapper or a clone. Every feature of PBS works exactly as upstream intends.
What you get out of the box
Deduplication
Content-defined chunking deduplicates across all backups in the datastore. A typical PVE fleet sees 5-10x logical-to-physical ratios on VM backups.
Client-side encryption
AES-256-GCM encryption is performed on the PVE host before data leaves your network. Encryption keys never touch our infrastructure.
Verify jobs
Scheduled chunk verification catches silent data corruption. Native PBS verify jobs run on the managed datastore.
Prune and garbage collection
Retention policies are enforced by PBS. Garbage collection frees space from chunks no longer referenced.
Push and pull sync
You can either push backups from your PBS to ours, or have ours pull from a remote PBS you operate. Both flows are native.
Change Block Tracking
Incremental backups use PVE's CBT when available. Only changed 4 MiB regions ship across the wire.
Why use a managed service instead of self-hosting
Self-hosting PBS is the right choice when backup infrastructure is part of what your team already operates. For everyone else, a managed service is faster to deploy and cheaper over a three-year horizon once hardware, ops time, and the risk of a failed backup during an incident are added up. Four reasons come up in most evaluation calls:
Time to first backup
A dedicated PBS host typically takes a week end to end between ordering hardware, racking, Debian install, PBS install, TLS certificates, and the first successful verify. A managed instance is ready in minutes. Register, copy a repository string into Proxmox VE, and the first datastore.list is live.
Expertise on tap
PBS has a small but sharp surface: datastore layouts, prune schedules, verify cadence, encryption key management, remote sync topology. We have been running production Proxmox infrastructures for twelve years. When a PBS job fails or a verify surfaces a corrupted chunk, you get an acknowledgement in under an hour and a substantive answer in under four.
Storage scaling without re-architecture
Self-hosted PBS hits a ceiling once the ZFS pool is full. Adding capacity means adding disks, possibly rebalancing, sometimes rebuilding. Cloud-PBS scales your datastore in 100 GB steps (on the pay-as-you-go plan) or by moving to a larger tier, with prorated billing. No disk procurement, no rebuild window.
Off-site by design
A single-site backup is not a backup. Running PBS in the same rack as the PVE it protects is a common and dangerous anti-pattern. A managed PBS is off-site for you by construction. It lives in a different datacenter, a different AS, often a different country. Ransomware or a fire on the production site does not reach it.
How Cloud-PBS works
The integration relies only on features already present in Proxmox VE and PBS. No agent to install, no proprietary client to maintain.
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Create your Cloud-PBS account
Sign up, pick your plan (Shared, Pay As You Go, or Dedicated), and select the region closest to your infrastructure. The managed datastore is provisioned while you are still on the signup confirmation page.
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Add the datastore to Proxmox VE
Copy the repository string from your Cloud-PBS dashboard into Proxmox VE under Datacenter > Storage > Add: Proxmox Backup Server. Paste the fingerprint, choose whether to enable client-side encryption, and save. The datastore appears in your PVE UI like any other.
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Schedule and forget
Create backup jobs from Datacenter > Backup as usual. Point them at the Cloud-PBS datastore. Retention is driven by PBS prune schedules you configure yourself. Verify, garbage collection, and monitoring run on our side and report back to your dashboard.
Infrastructure
Cloud-PBS runs on infrastructure operated by LenoIT SARL, a French company based in Vannes, Brittany. Customer data never leaves the region you select at signup.
| France | Paris region and Brittany | Current |
| Germany | Operated via European partners | Current |
| United States | US-based partner datacenter | Current |
Roadmap
A second Paris point of presence at Equinix and an on-premise facility in Brittany are in active build-out for Q2/Q3 2026. Together they will enable same-country geo-replication for French customers and a tape archive tier for long-term retention on custom projects.
Service levels
Cloud-PBS is a B2B infrastructure service. Service levels are explicit and contractual.
| Commitment | Shared | Instance (dedicated) |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% | 99.99% |
| Datastore isolation | Multi-tenant | Dedicated hardware |
| Replica strategy | Intra-datacenter | Multi-datacenter on request |
| Encryption | Client-side AES-256-GCM | Client-side AES-256-GCM |
| Root SSH access | Not available | Available |
| IP source filtering | Per datastore | Per datastore |
Support commitments
- Acknowledgement of any support request within 1 hour, 24/7
- Substantive response within 4 hours on business days
- Direct access to the engineers who operate the platform, not a tier-1 script
- English and French at native level, plus German coverage during EU business hours
Recovery objectives
Standard managed plans do not include on-site PVE recovery. If you need a guaranteed RPO and RTO, ask us about the Managed Restore service. On custom projects hosted on our infrastructure, recovery point and time objectives are designed to your constraints. With NVMe storage on 10 Gb links, restore throughput for typical workloads puts sub-hour recovery within reach for single-VM scenarios.
Built for MSPs
Cloud-PBS is used by managed service providers to run backups for their own customers under a single operational pane. The platform is multi-tenant by design.
- Hierarchical tenant management with separate billing, permissions, and audit logs per customer
- Per-customer datastores isolated at the PBS layer
- VPN connections included on every plan to terminate backup traffic from customer sites
- A public MSP API is under active development for 2026 — contact us to join the early access program
Pricing
Three plans covering the spectrum from small homelab to enterprise-grade dedicated infrastructure.
Datastore (Shared, fixed)
From €6 / month
Fixed storage on shared PBS infrastructure. 250 GB up to 15 TB.
Datastore (Pay As You Go)
From €1.30 / month
Shared PBS, per-hour billing in 100 GB steps. 100 GB minimum up to 100 TB.
Instance (Dedicated)
From €19 / month
Isolated PBS instance with root access, IP filtering, priority support. 1 TB up to 15 TB out of the box, larger on request.
All prices are net, taxes may apply. 7-day free trial on every plan. No contract required.
Who trusts Cloud-PBS
We operate over 80 PBS instances for more than 300 customers, ranging from single-node homelabs to production fleets managing 75 TB of backup data.
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Managed Proxmox Backup Server: frequently asked questions
Is a managed PBS the same product as self-hosted Proxmox Backup Server?
Can Cloud-PBS read my backup data?
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