I installed Proxmox Backup Server in a VM on my nas to see what all the fuss was about. I messed with it for a but but then the install got botched (not PBS's fault) and I didn't bother messing with it anymore. What I have been doing is, on each of my nodes, just setting up scheduled backups of VMs to a share on my NAS. I can't figure out why using PBS would be any better that just doing that but people seem to like it. I only have to do this once on each node. Could anyone enlighten me as to what I am not seeing in PBS that makes it better?
I was specifically talking about the backup of VMs and containers using the built-in backup function in the PVE UI. I just pick my smb share as the backup location. I didn't know you could use PBS to backup from non-PVE *environments. For my windows laptop, which I do most of my work on right now, I use Cobain Galaxy to backup to a smb share on the same nas. I don't have need for backups on my Debian laptop, I don't really use it in a way where I need resistance storage at this time.
*sorry for the RAS syndrome