Duration: 2 days (7 hours per day)
Day 1 – Advanced Backup Management & Optimization
- Chapter 1: Advanced Repository Management
- Multiple storage backends and tiered storage
- Deduplication across repositories
- Compression and encryption options
- Chapter 2: Advanced Backup Jobs
- Fine-grained scheduling and retention policies
- Backup groups and selective VM/container backup
- Excluding files or directories from backup
- Chapter 3: Backup Integrity & Verification
- Pruning old backups safely
- Checksum verification and repair of corrupt backups
- Automatic consistency checks
Day 2 – Replication, Multi-site & Automation
- Chapter 4: Replication & Multi-Site Backups
- Configuring PBS-to-PBS replication
- Multi-site backup strategies
- WAN optimization and throttling
- Chapter 5: Security & Access Control
- Advanced RBAC and API token usage
- Encrypting backups at rest and in transit
- Integrating with Proxmox VE roles and users
- Chapter 6: Automation & CLI Usage
- Scripting backup tasks with
proxmox-backup-client - Automating backup verification and pruning
- Integration with external monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana)
- Scripting backup tasks with
- Chapter 7: Disaster Recovery & Best Practices
- Full site restore planning
- Testing recovery procedures
- Best practices for large-scale deployments