From DIY scripts to zero-overhead protection: Acronis introduces agentless Proxmox VE backup

Luka, an MSP engineer in Vienna, Austria, still remembers that Friday night when a Proxmox-based test lab failed. His home-grown rsync scripts had skipped two new LXC containers, the customer lost a week of work and Luka lost his weekend. The lesson was clear: open-source platforms still need reliable protection — and scripts aren’t sufficient to provide it.

Today, we’re solving Luka’s problem the professional way: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud now delivers fully agentless Proxmox VE backup.

Traditional agents sit inside every guest, eating CPU cycles and breaking whenever kernels or packages change. Acronis takes a different route: a single lightweight agent talks to native Proxmox APIs, so nothing runs inside your VMs or containers. Production resources stay where they belong — on workloads, not on backup tasks.

The same policy that protects a Windows server on VMware now covers all VMs and LXC containers on Proxmox VE. Agentless backup captures Proxmox VM images and LXC containers side by side, then stores them in any place of your choice to keep backup windows short and RPOs tight.

Back up to local disks for rapid restores, send a second copy to SMB / NFS, or stream straight to the Acronis Cloud, S3 or Azure for long-term retention. Immutability and built-in anti-malware scanning lock the data against ransomware, satisfying even the strictest compliance regulations. Remember, Acronis even offers a geo-redundant storage option for maximum compliance.

1. Deploy once: Add the Proxmox host to the Acronis console by installing Acronis Agent for Linux + Proxmox VE add on onto the host. Auto-discovery lists every VM and container.
2. Define a plan: Pick frequency, retention and target. Forever-incremental jobs slash network load.
3. Recover any to any: Recover a failed guest on Proxmox, regardless of the original platform type — migration is built in.

• Zero hypervisor overhead: No agents, no guest restarts, no patching.
• Single pane of glass: Manage Proxmox alongside 30+ other workload types from one console.
• MSP ready: Multitenant design, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) licensing and branded reports for clients.

• MSPs adding backup as a service to cost-sensitive Proxmox shops.
• DevOps teams safeguarding fast-moving container labs.
• Enterprises standardizing protection after a VMware exit.
• Hybrid-cloud builders replicating on-premises Proxmox data to resilient object storage.

Stop gambling with homemade jobs. Start a free trial of the new agentless Proxmox backup solution today and give your VMs — and your weekends — the protection they deserve.

Try it now and see why 20,000+ service providers trust Acronis for secure, scalable Proxmox cloud backup.