Agentless Proxmox VE backup software by Acronis

G2 Server Backup Leader

2025

For IT Departments

Formerly Acronis Cyber Backup

Centralized cyber protection solution to streamline your endpoint protection, backup and disaster recovery and management through integration and automation.

For Service Providers

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Integrated cyber protection platform unifying cybersecurity, backup & recovery, and management to reduce complexity, streamline your services and cut costs. All in one solution for MSPs.

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Protect Proxmox VE with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Proxmox VE has become the go-to open-source hypervisor for cost-efficient virtualization and containerization.

Yet existing tools leave gaps: limited storage support, agent-based jobs add overhead, home-grown scripts become hard to maintain and a unified view of VM and container backups is missing.

Acronis solves these issues with an agentless, scalable and secure approach that safeguards Proxmox VE virtual machines and LXC containers from a single console.

Comprehensive backup and recovery for Proxmox VE

Acronis delivers a complete solution for protecting Proxmox environments — from advanced features and flexible storage to agentless backups that boost performance and simplify management.

Benefits of agentless backup for Proxmox VE

With agentless backup for Proxmox VE, Acronis streamlines protection, boosts performance, and simplifies management — delivering secure, efficient, and consistent backups across all workloads without adding complexity

No hypervisor overhead
The agentless design taps native Proxmox APIs, so nothing runs inside each VM or container. CPU and RAM stay focused on production workloads, keeping VMs inside the Proxmox hypervisor fast even during large Proxmox VM backup jobs.
Tighter RPOs and RTOs
Forever-incremental backups and granular recovery cut backup windows and recovery times, meeting strict SLAs for Proxmox backup and restore.
One solution for every workload
Acronis protects VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers and now Proxmox VE, covering full virtual machines and granular LXC container backup in the same plan. This ends tool sprawl and streamlines multiplatform Proxmox backup solutions.
Flexible, secure storage
Send data to local disks, SMB / NFS shares, Acronis Cloud or any S3/Azure target for resilient Proxmox cloud backup. Immutability, anti-malware scanning and FIPS 140-2 encryption keep archives safe and compliant.
Consistent protection across all workloads
Host-level policies auto-apply to new VMs and containers, eliminating gaps and ensuring every test or production environment remains covered by the same trusted Proxmox backup software.
Easy roll-out and upkeep
Add one host and the platform auto-discovers every guest. You manage updates from a single console instead of patching a separate Proxmox backup client on every machine — ideal for MSPs that need hands-off Proxmox backup software.

Acronis features and capabilities for Proxmox backup

Acronis offers specialized capabilities for Proxmox, from agentless VM and container protection to fast, granular recovery and centralized management

Agentless VM backup
Protect full Proxmox VMs without installing in-guest agents.
Any-to-any migrations and recovery
Restore backups from other platforms, directly as Proxmox VE virtual machines or vice versa.
LXC container backup
Granular protection and recovery for lightweight Linux containers.
Fast incremental backups
Block-level tracking cuts backup windows and storage use.
Granular recovery
Restore entire VMs, containers, individual files or app items.
Flexible storage
Back up to local disks, SMB / NFS shares, Acronis Cloud or any public cloud.
Centralized management
Multitenant console simplifies large-scale Proxmox services.

Typical use cases for using Acronis with Proxmox

MSPs

Deliver backup as a service for Proxmox clients with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing.

Enterprises adopting Proxmox VE

Unify VM and container backup under one policy.

Hybrid cloud setups

Replicate on-premises Proxmox data to Acronis Cloud or S3-compatible targets.

DevOps teams

Protect fast-moving test / dev labs built on LXC and KVM.

Why choose Acronis for Proxmox backup?

Unified cyber protection platform
Backup, anti-malware and disaster recovery in one.
Minimal footprint
Single lightweight host agent, no guest agents.
Proven performance and security
Fast recovery and immutable backups.
Any-to-any recovery
Migrate workloads into or out of Proxmox with ease.

Awards and recognition

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cyber-Recovery Leader

SoftwareReviews Gold medal for Endpoint protection

OPSWAT Anti-malware Platinum certification

Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization member

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Proxmox agentless backup?
Acronis installs a lightweight agent on the Proxmox hypervisor itself. The agent talks directly to native APIs, so every virtual machine and container is protected by the same Proxmox backup software without injecting a separate Proxmox backup client inside each guest. That design eliminates in-guest CPU and RAM consumption, speeds up Proxmox VM backup jobs and keeps management centralized in one console — ideal for a clean, scalable Proxmox backup solution.
Can I back up LXC containers?
Yes. The same agentless workflow captures full images and granular data from LXC containers, giving you consistent LXC containers backup and Proxmox containers backup with no extra steps. Policies you define for VMs automatically extend to containers, so mixed environments stay covered by a single plan — no separate tools or scripts required.
Which Proxmox VE versions are supported?
The current release protects Proxmox VE 8.x and VE 9. Because protection happens at the host layer, compatibility is tied to the Proxmox hypervisor version, not to the guest OS. One agent discovers every node, making future upgrades simple — just update the appliance once instead of touching dozens of VMs.
How is agentless different from agent-based backup?
Agent-based tools must be installed, patched and monitored inside each VM, which adds overhead and security risk. Acronis’ agentless approach leaves guest operating systems untouched, so there’s zero performance drag, a smaller attack surface, and far less maintenance. In short, you gain faster Proxmox backup and restore cycles while removing the hassle of per-VM agents.
Does Acronis support cloud backup for Proxmox workloads?
Absolutely. You can send archives to local disks, SMB / NFS shares, Acronis Cloud, S3 buckets or other public clouds — covering everything from on-premises snapshots to long-term Proxmox cloud backup retention without changing tools. This flexibility lets you meet cost, compliance and air-gap requirements in one policy.
How does recovery work?
Pick any restore point and recover data quickly on a Proxmox VE hypervisor, bare-metal or dissimilar servers using Universal Restore, ensuring fast, clean Proxmox backup and restore when every minute counts.

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