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Proxmox OCI LXC Backup to PBS 4.2 S3 Storage Guide
A dead edge node shouldn't force a manual reinstall. This PBS S3 backup path restores Caddy, DNS, and Nginx LXC containers.
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A dead edge node shouldn't force a manual reinstall. This PBS S3 backup path restores Caddy, DNS, and Nginx LXC containers.

Stop stitching two backup systems together: put Swarm or K3s in one OCI LXC guest and let Proxmox do the work.

Proxmox VE's new OCI runtime uses a different stack than LXC — here's how overlay2 beats fuse-overlayfs in write-heavy workloads and when each actually makes sense on modest hardware.

Most admins miss several of these because they don't require configuration changes — just toggling a flag in /etc/pve/.

Proxmox VE 9.1 lets you run any OCI container image as a lightweight LXC—no Docker daemon needed.