A manual backup can be performed on a particular virtual machine at any time through the Proxmox GUI. The manual backup option is accessible through the Backup tabbed menu of the virtual machine. From the same Backup menu, we can back up, restore, and delete backup files.

To open the backup creation dialog box, we select the VM we are going to back up, then click on the Backup now button. The manual backup dialog box is extremely simple. We only need to select the destination Storage node, the backup Mode, and the Compression level, as shown in the following screenshot: