A dedicated PBS datastore in Los Angeles that you add to Proxmox VE like any other Proxmox Backup Server. Backup-only tokens, client-side encryption, and retention, garbage collection and verify run by our team. From $3/mo, no restore fees.
ServerCrate hosts a dedicated Proxmox Backup Server datastore for your Proxmox VE cluster. You add it under Datacenter > Storage > Add > Proxmox Backup Server, point backup jobs at it, and get offsite VM and container backups with full PBS deduplication, incremental transfers and file-level restore. Plans start at $3/mo for 100 GB and run to $22/mo for 2 TB, with annual billing at ten months for twelve.
The part that matters most in an incident: the token we issue is backup-only. It writes new snapshots and reads them for restores, but it has no delete or prune permission. If ransomware or an attacker gets root on your PVE host, your offsite history stays intact, because retention runs on our side, not from the host.
Already running PBS at home and only want a copy of configs and app data? Our Restic vaults cover that, see Proxmox offsite backup with Restic. This page is for full VM and LXC backups to a native PBS target.
Monthly prices shown. Yearly billing is 10 times monthly, two months free. Every plan has the same features at a different quota and retention.
Datastore in Los Angeles, California. Need a different retention? Ask our team. Human support, cancel from the portal.
| Datastore | A dedicated datastore with a hard quota on ZFS. Your chunks never share a datastore with another customer. |
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| Access token | Backup-only. It creates backups and reads them for restores. It holds no delete or prune permission, so a compromised PVE host has no way to remove offsite snapshots. |
| Retention | Runs on our side. PBS-100 keeps 7 daily, 4 weekly and 3 monthly backups. PBS-500, PBS-1T and PBS-2T keep 14 daily, 8 weekly and 6 monthly. Ask our team if you need a different policy. |
| Maintenance | Garbage collection runs daily to reclaim space from pruned snapshots. Verify jobs run weekly and re-read your chunks against their checksums. |
| Encryption | Client-side PBS encryption is supported and recommended. The key is generated on your PVE host and stays there. We never see it. |
| Transport | Proxmox VE connects to pbs.servercrate.net on port 8007 over TLS with a publicly trusted certificate. |
| Web interface | Browse snapshots and restore files at https://pbs.servercrate.net with your web-interface password, realm Proxmox Backup authentication server. This address sits on our web edge with post-quantum TLS. |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, US West Coast. |
| Fees | None beyond the plan. No egress fees, no restore fees. |
After checkout, open Proxmox offsite in our portal and click Create datastore. The portal shows four values once, so save them before you leave the page: the datastore name (sc-...), the username (in the form xxxx@pbs!pve), the API token secret, and a separate web-interface password. Then, in the Proxmox VE web interface:
servercrate. Server: pbs.servercrate.net.sc-... datastore name.The same entry in /etc/pve/storage.cfg looks like this. The token secret lives separately in /etc/pve/priv/storage/servercrate.pw, never in storage.cfg. The prune-backups keep-all=1 line matters: retention runs on our side and the token has no delete rights, so Proxmox VE should never try to prune this storage itself.
Prefer the shell? pvesm writes the same entry, stores the secret in the right place and generates the encryption key in one step:
The first backup sends every chunk. After that, PBS sends only changed chunks, so nightly jobs stay small even for large VMs. Restore whole VMs and containers from the same storage entry in Proxmox VE, or sign in at https://pbs.servercrate.net with your web-interface password to browse snapshots and download individual files.
| ServerCrate | remote-backups.com | Cloud-PBS | ProxmoxBackup.com | |
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| Entry plan | $3/mo, 100 GB | €8.50/TB/mo, 500 GB minimum | €6/mo, 250 GB (fixed) | $6.95/mo, 1 TB included |
| 1 TB per month | $12 | €8.50 + tax | Not listed as a single price | $6.95 |
| Location | Los Angeles, US | Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, Germany | EU (US listed as coming) | US |
| Restore / egress | No fees | No bandwidth fees | Not stated | Outbound up to stored data per month |
| Billing currency | USD | EUR, net of tax | EUR, excluding VAT | USD |
Prices as listed on each provider's site on October 4, 2026. If you need multiple terabytes in the EU, the per-TB providers above cost less per gigabyte, and we would rather say so. We built our plans for homelabs and small clusters that want a US West Coast target, small entry sizes, retention managed for them, and a token model where the host has no path to delete its own offsite history.
Dedicated PBS datastore. Backup-only token. No restore fees.
Los Angeles, California. Cancel from the portal.