Setting up alerts in Proxmox is important and critical to making sure you are notified if something goes wrong with your servers.It’s so easy, I should have done this years ago! In this tutorial, we’ll set up email notifications using SMTP with Gmail or G Suite that send email alerts when there are disk errors, ZSF Issues, or when backup jobs run.We’ll then test the alerts to make sure they are working by yoinking a drive from my ZFS pool (and hopefully it doesn’t fail).

This post covers deploying a Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) on a Synology NAS and using a Synology NAS NFS mount as a datastore for backups. And optionally you can run the PBS server as a VM on your Synology NAS as well. Why would you want to use Proxmox Backup Server? Here are a few reasons:Built-in data deduplication. I'm