1. Installation

Umbrel can be installed both on bare metal or as VM. The goal of Umbrel is making installing an application so simple as just clicking on install app. Now, this is great since a user now does not need to understand anything of the docker compose configuration to set up an app. However, it does come with some drawbacks of course that need to be discussed.

1. First of all you don't have ZFS under the hood. Everything is stored on the same drive
2. It does not come with a simple backup solution
3. You can only install applications that the Umbrel library provides you with

However, you could solve problems 1 and 2 fairly simple by setting it up as a VM in proxmox. You can just attach a virtual drive to the VM that under the hoods already sits in a zfs pool. Then by using proxmox PBS you can take easy backups from the whole VM.

Hence, we will also install it as a VM by using the beloved Proxmox Backup Scripts ;) You can find it here !!