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2. Installation

The installation of PBS as a VM on a secondary PVE is quite straightforward and basically exactly the same as installing it on the production VM. You can of course again decide to have your OS on two or one SSD. I would recommend two again since if one fails then at least your proxmox PBS that runs on your PVE is not gone. Plus another benefit is that you can always upscale your storage by re silvering the mirror with a drive that has more capacity. 

  1. First of all copy the link of the Proxmox Backup server from its downloading page
  2. Then download the ISO to your PVE2 instance
  3. Then create a new VM on PVE 2 and attach the