Proxmox backup on a NanoPC-T6
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2026 2:23 pm
Hello everyone,
I was so lucky a year ago to find a full-specced nanopc-t6 with 16Gb ram and 256Gb EMMC. I took my time to set it up as homelab, and I'm very satisfied with the performance and potential of this little box.
My journey with the setup is still ongoing, but at this point I'd like to understand what is the best practice to have a backup on hand if needed.
Considering that all my LXCs and dockers are installed on the onboard EMMC, and only the personal files are on the NVME drive, how can I make a copy of all my successful endeavors? At the moment the most important things to backup are:
I would be very happy to find a backup method for all my EMMC that does not need a reboot to a backup environment, but I imagine this could be out of reach. So, I'm basically open to any method, and I can assign an old USB drive to the box, just to store the backups.
Hope to hear from you, as I'm a rookie and surely there's a lot of more knowledgeable people than me, here.
If needed, I can delve deeper about my current setup, but i basically installed the provided proxmox image from the google drive, and then updated it till 8.4.1-1. I then stopped updating it, for fear of breaking something without a ready backup to flash back on the EMMC.
I'm all ears!
Take care,
Gabriel
I was so lucky a year ago to find a full-specced nanopc-t6 with 16Gb ram and 256Gb EMMC. I took my time to set it up as homelab, and I'm very satisfied with the performance and potential of this little box.
My journey with the setup is still ongoing, but at this point I'd like to understand what is the best practice to have a backup on hand if needed.
Considering that all my LXCs and dockers are installed on the onboard EMMC, and only the personal files are on the NVME drive, how can I make a copy of all my successful endeavors? At the moment the most important things to backup are:
- the OpenWRT 24.10.2 LXC that provides networking to my house
- a convoluted Jellyfin container on a Debian LXC with an automatic startup and shutdown script
I would be very happy to find a backup method for all my EMMC that does not need a reboot to a backup environment, but I imagine this could be out of reach. So, I'm basically open to any method, and I can assign an old USB drive to the box, just to store the backups.
Hope to hear from you, as I'm a rookie and surely there's a lot of more knowledgeable people than me, here.
If needed, I can delve deeper about my current setup, but i basically installed the provided proxmox image from the google drive, and then updated it till 8.4.1-1. I then stopped updating it, for fear of breaking something without a ready backup to flash back on the EMMC.
I'm all ears!
Take care,
Gabriel