For most Proxmox VE clusters, the best offsite target is a hosted Proxmox Backup Server datastore: it keeps PBS’s incremental, deduplicated backups, optional client-side encryption and file-level restore. Object storage (Backblaze B2, Wasabi) and SSH targets (Hetzner Storage Box, rsync.net, BorgBase) fit better when you run your own PBS on S3 or already back up with restic or Borg.
Disclosure: ServerCrate publishes this page and sells one of the options below, Proxmox offsite. Competitor prices come from their own pages; options are grouped by approach, not scored.
Eleven offsite targets for Proxmox backups: hosted PBS datastores, S3-compatible object storage and SSH storage, each with the lowest public plan we found in October 2026.
| Provider | Method | Starting price | Client-side encryption | Dedup | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ServerCrate | Hosted PBS | $3/mo for 100 GB, $12/mo for 1 TB (plans) | Yes, PBS key | PBS chunks | US West Coast, Bitcoin or PayPal billing |
| Tuxis | Hosted PBS | €21/TB/mo all-in; free home tier | Yes, PBS key | PBS chunks | Testing free, Dutch data centres |
| remote-backups.com | Hosted PBS | €1.70/mo (200 GB), €8.50/TB | Yes, PBS key | PBS chunks | Small datastores, EU (Germany) |
| Cloud-PBS | Hosted PBS | €3.90/mo (300 GB min.) | Yes, PBS key | PBS chunks | Multi-AZ copies, dedicated instances |
| proxmoxbackup.com | Hosted PBS | $6.95/TB (1 TB min.) | Yes, PBS key | PBS chunks | Large datasets billed in USD |
| NimbusBackup | Hosted PBS | €12/TB/mo | Yes, PBS key | PBS chunks | Air-gapped drives, LTO, France |
| Backblaze B2 | Object storage | $6.95/TB/mo; 10 GB free | Via PBS, restic or Borg | If PBS, restic or Borg | Self-run PBS with an S3 datastore |
| Wasabi | Object storage | $7.99/TB/mo (1 TB min.) | Via PBS, restic or Borg | If PBS, restic or Borg | Stable data over 1 TB that rarely churns |
| Hetzner Storage Box | SSH, CIFS | BX11 (1 TB); see live price | Via restic or Borg | If restic or Borg | Cheap EU target for vzdump archives |
| rsync.net | SSH | $0.01/GB/mo (200 GB min., Borg accounts) | Via restic or Borg | If restic or Borg | Plain SSH and ZFS, US or Zurich |
| BorgBase | SSH | 10 GB free; $30/yr for 250 GB | Via restic or Borg | If restic or Borg | Append-only Borg repositories |
Prices checked October 2026 on each provider’s own page; EUR prices exclude VAT. “PBS key” is the optional AES-256-GCM encryption key set on the Proxmox VE storage, identical on every hosted PBS datastore.
A hosted PBS datastore is a Proxmox Backup Server that lives offsite. You add it in Proxmox VE as storage of type pbs and backups behave as they do locally: later runs send only changed chunks, identical chunks are stored once per datastore, and you can restore a single file or live-restore a VM. Encryption happens on the Proxmox VE node with an AES-256-GCM key the provider never receives. Providers differ on price, location, minimum size, and whether you control prune, verify and garbage-collection jobs or sync from your own PBS. Ask one question before buying: can the API token they issue delete old snapshots? A token limited to the DatastoreBackup role can add backups but cannot prune them.
ServerCrate runs hosted PBS datastores in Los Angeles, on ZFS with storage-level snapshots underneath. You add one in Proxmox VE with server pbs.servercrate.net, port 8007, your datastore name, a user API token and the certificate fingerprint. If you set a PBS encryption key, your backups are unreadable to us. You can pay by card, PayPal or Bitcoin, and our backup plans carry no egress fees. The same account can hold restic vaults (append-only by default, 14-day storage-level lock, from $2/mo for 100 GB, 10 GB free) and Borg repositories over SSH. Current sizes and prices are on the Proxmox offsite page.
Best for: clusters in North America that want a West Coast copy, and anyone who pays in Bitcoin or PayPal.
Tuxis, a Dutch provider, has the simplest bill here: €21 per TB per month, all-in, billed on the month’s peak datastore size rounded up to a whole terabyte. Traffic and restores are free. A free account is offered for home use and testing (the page does not state its size), and PBS Sync (€10/mo extra) replicates to a second Tuxis data centre. It is the highest per-TB price of the hosted options, and whole-TB rounding makes small datastores relatively expensive.
Best for: testing a remote datastore at no cost, and teams that prefer a flat all-in rate.
remote-backups.com runs hosted PBS datastores in Germany at €8.50 per TB per month, net of VAT. Prepaid plans start at 200 GB for €1.70 per month; subscriptions start at 500 GB for €4.25 and bill hourly with autoscaling, in 100 GB steps up to 20 TB. Paid plans include a 7-day trial, unlimited sync jobs, and optional geo-replication and immutable copies. No bandwidth fees are listed. The advertised 100 GB free tier was marked unavailable when we checked.
Best for: homelabs and small clusters that need a few hundred gigabytes in the EU at the lowest monthly bill.
Cloud-PBS is run by LenoIT in Vannes, France. Its scalable datastore starts at €3.90 per month for one availability zone or €6.60 for three, with a 300 GB billing minimum and hourly billing in 100 GB steps. An isolated PBS instance starts at €127 per month for 10 TB. All plans support push and pull sync, and there is a 7-day free trial. A US region is listed for fixed datastores.
Best for: surviving the loss of one data centre, and MSPs that want a dedicated PBS instance.
proxmoxbackup.com, run by OneColo, charges $6.95 per TB per month with a 1 TB minimum, the lowest per-TB rate among the hosted PBS services we checked. A 100 TB bare-metal server is $595 per month. Inbound is unmetered; on the dynamic plan, monthly outbound is capped at the amount stored. Sync jobs and verify tasks in the PBS web interface are listed for dedicated plans only, and the pricing page does not state a location.
Best for: multi-terabyte datastores billed in US dollars.
NimbusBackup is run by RDEM Systems from its own racks at Equinix Paris, priced per usable terabyte regardless of host or VM count: from €12 per TB per month for a single-drive datastore, up to air-gapped drives (€34) and LTO tape (€119). Your PBS adds it as a remote and replicates with a sync job. Client-side encryption is optional, there are no egress or restore fees, and a US datastore is available on request.
Best for: an offline copy on rotated drives or tape without owning a tape library.
Also available: Keyweb (Germany, from €8/mo for 200 GB including VAT), plus HostMyServers and NovaCloud-Hosting, whose pages gave no comparable starting price.
A hosted datastore is one storage entry, added once for the whole cluster. In the web interface, open Datacenter → Storage → Add → Proxmox Backup Server and fill in:
offsite.pbs.servercrate.net) and 8007.user@pbs!tokenname and its secret.The same thing from a shell:
Many setups keep a local PBS for fast restores and copy it offsite with a sync job. A pull job runs on the receiving server; a push job (since PBS 3.3) runs on your local PBS with only a token for the remote, which is what most hosted datastores expect. PBS 4.2 added parallel sync (worker-threads) and can encrypt snapshots during a push. Schedule verify jobs, set retention with prune jobs, and note that garbage collection only frees chunks unreferenced for about 24 hours. See our Proxmox offsite guide and the 3-2-1 rule.
Object storage and SSH boxes cost less per terabyte, but lose PBS features unless PBS or a deduplicating tool sits in front. Three patterns are common. Run your own PBS with an S3 datastore: a technology preview in PBS 4.0, officially supported since PBS 4.2 (April 2026), it needs a local cache disk and verify jobs read chunks back from the bucket. Write vzdump archives to a CIFS or NFS mount: simple, but every run is a full archive. Or back up with restic or Borg, which deduplicate vzdump output well only with compression off (--compress 0). Our restic for Proxmox guide covers the last pattern.
B2 costs $6.95 per TB per month with the first 10 GB free, no minimum storage duration, and free egress up to three times your average monthly storage, then $0.01/GB. That suits a self-run PBS S3 datastore, where verify jobs, garbage collection and restores read and delete data often.
Best for: your own PBS on an S3 backend, or restic to a bucket. See our B2 alternative page.
Wasabi’s pay-as-you-go rate rose to $7.99 per TB per month on 1 July 2026. You pay for at least 1 TB, objects deleted before 90 days are billed for the remaining days, and egress is free up to your active storage volume. That 90-day rule makes frequent prunes and PBS garbage collection more expensive.
Best for: large, steady datasets with long retention. More on the trade-offs in our Wasabi comparison.
The BX11 Storage Box gives 1 TB in Falkenstein or Helsinki with free traffic, 10 snapshots and SFTP, rsync over SSH, Samba/CIFS, WebDAV, BorgBackup, restic and rclone. Proxmox VE mounts CIFS natively, so it can be a vzdump target with no extra software. It does not run PBS. The BX11 price did not load when we checked and Hetzner changed many prices in 2026, so confirm it on Hetzner’s page.
Best for: low-cost EU storage for vzdump archives. See our Storage Box comparison.
rsync.net’s Borg accounts cost $0.01 per GB per month with a 200 GB minimum, billed annually, with free transfer. They skip rsync.net’s free ZFS snapshots because Borg handles versioning. Locations include three US cities, Zurich and Hong Kong.
Best for: a plain Unix filesystem over SSH for Borg, restic and rsync. See our rsync.net comparison.
BorgBase gives 10 GB and two repositories free, then $30 a year for 250 GB, $110 for 1 TB or $210 for 2 TB, with flexible quota above the plan. Each repository can sit in the EU or US, and append-only mode stops a compromised host from rewriting old archives. It hosts Borg and restic.
Best for: append-only Borg repositories for /etc/pve, host configuration and uncompressed vzdump archives. See our BorgBase comparison.
Pick a hosted PBS datastore if Proxmox VE is your main platform and fast, granular restores matter more than the lowest price per terabyte. Pick object storage if you want to run PBS yourself, or SSH storage if your backups are restic, Borg or plain vzdump files.
For a shortlist by budget, size, location and offline-copy needs, see the quick picks at the top of this page.
How we chose. We included every provider we found that sells a hosted PBS datastore with a public starting price, plus five widely used object-storage and SSH targets. For each, we read the provider’s own pricing and product pages in October 2026 and recorded the lowest public plan, minimum billable size, egress terms and location. We ran no benchmarks and assign no scores; each provider is placed by the use case its pricing and features fit. If a price here is out of date, email support@servercrate.net and we will correct it.
Not if you set a client-side encryption key. Proxmox VE then encrypts every chunk with AES-256-GCM before upload, so the provider stores ciphertext. It can still see metadata such as backup group names (usually VM IDs), snapshot times and sizes. Keep a copy of the key off the cluster: without it nobody can restore the backups, including you.
No. Proxmox VE backs up straight to a remote PBS datastore over port 8007. A local PBS synced offsite adds fast local restores and a second copy, the usual 3-2-1 layout, but it is optional.
Yes. S3-compatible datastores were a technology preview in PBS 4.0 (August 2025) and became officially supported in PBS 4.2 (April 2026). You still run PBS yourself with a local cache disk, and verify jobs read chunks back from the bucket, which can count against egress or request allowances.
A pull job runs on the receiving PBS and needs credentials for your local server, so it suits a remote you control. A push job runs on your local PBS and needs only a token on the remote, which is how most hosted datastores are used.
For a few VMs, often yes. vzdump writes a full archive every run, so storage and upload grow with each retained copy unless restic or Borg deduplicates them, and a restore means downloading a whole archive. Beyond a handful of VMs, PBS incremental backups usually save bandwidth and restore time.
If a Los Angeles PBS datastore fits, the Proxmox offsite page has current sizes and prices. If another provider fits better, use it: an encrypted offsite copy anywhere beats none.