Back-Up Proxmox VM with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO delivers an unprecedented level of protection for workloads in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a fast, reliable, and affordable solution for business data protection in virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments. Nakivo is known for its rich feature sets such as faster recovery and its security features.

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is a free, open-source virtualization management platform based on Debian Linux with a custom kernel. This solution fully integrates the KVM hypervisor, allowing users to deploy and manage virtual machines via a user-friendly GUI web interface.

Proxmox comes with Proxmox Backup Server, a native tool to back up virtual machines. However, you may need to use advanced backup/recovery features such as direct backup to the cloud, application-aware backup, flexible scheduling and retention, immutability, granular recovery, etc. Moreover, in hybrid and mixed environments, it is easier to use a single third-party backup solution like NAKIVO Backup & Replication to manage all data protection activities from a centralized interface.

Nakivo Backup & Replication now supports Backup for Proxmox VE as well along with other industry-leading virtualization platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV.

Powerful Proxmox VE Backup Solution by NAKIVO

With Nakivo Porxmox backup solution, you can protect your VM data and ensure business continuity with reliable, fast and agent-based Proxmox backup and recovery from NAKIVO with below features:

  • Full and instant object recovery
  • Ransomware resilience
  • Affordable subscription and perpetual licenses
  • Top-rated solution on review platforms

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides reliable agent-based backup, instant granular recovery and ransomware protection for Proxmox VM data. With flexible storage and retention options, strong security controls and excellent performance, the solution helps you keep critical data protected and available at all times.

Nakivo Backup & Replication for Proxmox provides comprehensive protection with handfull of below benefits:

Efficient, agent-based backups
Perform agent-based incremental backups of Proxmox VM data to improve transfer speed and save storage space. After an initial full backup, only data that has changed since the last backup cycle is copied in subsequent backup runs.

Application support

Ensure data consistency for applications and databases (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, Active Directory) with app-aware backup processing.

Flexible retention
Create hundreds of recovery points and rotate them daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, or based on a custom period.

Diverse storage targets
Send Proxmox VM data backups to local repositories, public clouds, S3-compatible storage, NAS and tape.

Direct backup to cloud
Transfer backups directly to public cloud platforms like Amazon S3, Wasabi, Azure Blob and Backblaze B2 and other S3-compatible storage targets.

Ransomware protection
Enable immutability for VM data backups stored in local and cloud-based repositories to protect against unwanted modification and ransomware encryption.

Malware detection
Check backups for viruses and ransomware before recovering the data to isolate potential threats.


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