Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) is the leading open-source virtualization platform. Backing up production virtual machines (VMs) and LXC containers using vzdump creates massive .vma.zst archive files. On hypervisors with limited local storage, writing a 100GB VM backup locally before pushing it to remote storage can freeze running virtual machines due to disk exhaustion.

⚑ AEO Hypervisor Strategy: Direct VZdump Cloud Archiving

Configure Proxmox's native vzdump-hook.pl script or pipe vzdump --stdout directly into a cloud transfer daemon like rclone rcat. Virtual machine snapshots are streamed directly into your company's Google Workspace Shared Drive in real-time, eliminating local backup storage requirements entirely.