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Backup is, and always was, as central aspect of IT administration. Backup is, and always has been, a central aspect of IT administration.
The need to recover from data loss is fundamental and increases with The need to recover from data loss is fundamental and only increases with
virtualization. virtualization.
Not surprisingly, we shipped a backup tool with Proxmox VE from the For this reason, we've been shipping a backup tool with Proxmox VE, from the
beginning. The tool is called ``vzdump`` and is able to make beginning. This tool is called ``vzdump`` and is able to make
consistent snapshots of running LXC containers and KVM virtual consistent snapshots of running LXC containers and KVM virtual
machines. machines.
But ``vzdump`` only allowed for full backups. While this is perfect However, ``vzdump`` only allows for full backups. While this is fine
for small backups, it becomes a burden for users with large VMs. Both for small backups, it becomes a burden for users with large VMs. Both
backup time and space usage was too large for this case, specially backup duration and storage usage are too high for this case, especially
when Users want to keep many backups of the same VMs. We need for users who want to keep many backups of the same VMs. To solve these
deduplication and incremental backups to solve those problems. problems, we needed to offer deduplication and incremental backups.
Back in October 2018 development started. We had been looking into Back in October 2018, development started. We investigated
several technologies and frameworks and finally decided to use several technologies and frameworks and finally decided to use
:term:`Rust` as implementation language to provide high speed and :term:`Rust` as the implementation language, in order to provide high speed and
memory efficiency. The 2018-edition of Rust seemed to be promising and memory efficiency. The 2018-edition of Rust seemed promising for our
useful for our requirements. requirements.
In July 2020 we released the first beta version of Proxmox Backup In July 2020, we released the first beta version of Proxmox Backup
Server, followed by a first stable version in November 2020. With the Server, followed by the first stable version in November 2020. With support for
support of incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup significantly reduces
significantly reduces the network load and saves valuable storage network load and saves valuable storage space.
space.