Proxmox backup on a NanoPC-T6

[bright_plastik]

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:

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 still have plenty of space to install other LXCs and docker services, though.

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

[bright_plastik]

Ok, after almost two years with no answer, I can say for sure that this forum is SHITE.

I previously had some Odroid SBCs and had pleasure to talk with people on the forum, and although the friendlyARM boards are superlative, the lack of enthusiasts and moderators on this forum makes it even with the power of the boards. "How to feel lonely with your toys".

I'll be eating popcorns when all this will disappear because of AI, and will be called a fail because the community does not exist.

Do you people at friendlyELEC know that this is road to failure?
It takes effort to build a community.

Otherwise others will take advantage of your hardware efforts (Youyetoo for example), and take the merit.

LAME.
I'll spend my excitement and knowledge somewhere else.