Proxmox - PBS Backups via NAS with to GDrive

Calendar July 14, 2026
Homelab
Homelab, Proxmox, Pbs, Backup, Cloud, Google-Drive, Rclone, Nas, Msmtp, Cron

Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) - Backups via NAS to GDrive (Decoupled, Monitored & Encrypted)#

This guide is intended for off-site disaster recovery (DR) copies, not as a primary backup destination.

This documentation covers a decoupled, stage-based architecture: The PBS Method (Deduplicated Datastore on NAS): The Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) host HP1BackupServer (10.1.1.211) mounts a local NAS share under proper system ownership (uid=34) to run a fully deduplicated backup datastore. A dedicated sync container MMDocker (10.1.2.230) mounts the same share to asynchronously push the deduplicated chunk structure to Google Drive via an optimized rclone sync script.

Cron Jobs

Calendar February 27, 2026
Homelab, Automation
Proxmox, Cron, Automation, Macmini, Homelab

Cron Jobs#

1. Create a backup Scheduler every hour between 8:00 and 22:00#

8..22/1:00

1.1. Check if it was triggered#

grep CRON /var/log/syslog | tail -n 5

Crontab commands#

contab -e

2. Cronjob for MacMini#

ttps://crontab.guru/
#@reboot (sleep 60 && echo "ondemand" | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
@reboot setpci -s 0:1f.0 0xa4.b=0

#PVEBackup
30 3 * * * /bin/bash /mnt/pve/Software/Software/Scripts/Proxmox/proxmox_backup.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

#hp1
50 7 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 94:57:a5:65:4e:90
55 7 * * * /usr/sbin/pvesm set HP1BackupServer -disable false
15 21 * * * /usr/sbin/pvesm set HP1BackupServer -disable true

#HP2
00 18 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 94:57:a5:65:7e:88
#HP3
50 8 * * 7 /usr/bin/wakeonlan ec:b1:d7:7c:a9:48
#HP4
00 13 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 20:67:7c:ee:63:80
#HP6
#50 7 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 50:65:f3:f1:b8:90
#50 7 * * * /usr/sbin/pvesm set HP6BackupServer -disable false
#30 8 * * * /usr/sbin/pvesm set HP6BackupServer -disable true
#50 17 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 50:65:f3:f1:b8:90
#50 17 * * * /usr/sbin/pvesm set HP6BackupServer -disable false
#30 18 * * * /usr/sbin/pvesm set HP6BackupServer -disable true
#HP7
50 8 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan ac:16:2d:6e:64:fc
#HP8
50 8 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 80:30:e0:3b:a5:74 ​

#HP8OLD
#45 7 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 3c:d9:2b:03:d8:f2

#HP9OLD
#45 7 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 68:b5:99:77:17:c2

#HP10OLD
#30 8 * * * /usr/bin/wakeonlan 00:26:55:29:0d:cc

#MP5.2TrueNAS
#00 08 * * 7 /usr/sbin/pvesm set MP5.2Backups -disable false
#00 11 * * 7 /usr/sbin/pvesm set MP5.2Backups -disable true

3. Cronjob HP4#

30 18 * * * /usr/sbin/pvesm set HP4BackupServer -disable true                                      
15 12 * * * /usr/sbin/shutdown -h now
00 19 * * * /usr/sbin/shutdown -h now

4. Cron Job to Auto Start After Power Failure for MacMini (autostart)#

crontab -e (crontab -l for a list of jobs)