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Proxmox Backups Shouldn't Be This Frustrating. One Homelabber Wrote a Script.
A Synology iSCSI workaround turned a familiar backup headache into a debate about convenience, complexity, and what actually makes a system reliable.
The most infuriating part of setting up backups is sometimes everything that happens before the first backup. One homelabber got so tired of wrestling with Synology permissions and rebuilding Proxmox Backup Server that they wrote a script to make the entire process less painful.
It began with a familiar problem: Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) was supposed to protect a homelab, but connecting it to Synology storage kept consuming time. NFS brought the familiar tangle of Linux permissions, users, and NAS configuration. Reinstalling meant retracing the same steps, hunting for the same scripts, and remembering which small adjustment had made the previous attempt work. Eventually, the irritation became its own project. The resulting PBS and Synology iSCSI setup script was shared for feedback, and the responses revealed something more interesting than another installation tool: people couldn’t even agree on which setup was worth simplifying.
