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Hi Thomas,
We have few more questions in addition to those mentioned in the previous email.
1. How to get allocated blocks/sectors from the snapshot of the raw format
virtual disk attached to a running VM (disk present on the block based storage
such as lvm, lvm-thin, etc)?
2. How to get allocated blocks/sectors from the snapshot of the vmdk format
virtual disk attached to a running VM?
3. As per below link, certain storage types do not support snapshots. In
such cases, what is the recommended way to take backup of the running VM?
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage
Could you kindly assist us in obtaining answers to these questions?
Thanks
Prashant
From: Prashant Patil <prashant.gamepa...@veritas.com>
Sent: 05 March 2025 12:06 PM
To: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lampre...@proxmox.com>; pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Cc: Anuradha Joshi <anuradha.jo...@veritas.com>; Jason Voneberstein
<jason.voneberst...@veritas.com>; Sudhir Subbarao <sudhir.subba...@veritas.com>
Subject: RE: About PVE Backup Integration Guide
Thank you, Thomas, for your prompt response to this.
We would like to know following things:
1. How much part of the plugins method is done?
2. How soon we can start the integration?
3. Is there any plugin method's documentation already available? If yes,
could you please share?
Regards,
Prashant
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Sent: 04 March 2025 10:07 PM
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Subject: Re: About PVE Backup Integration Guide
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Hello Prashant,
Am 04.03.25 um 16:47 schrieb Prashant Patil:
> Hello All,
> Hope this email finds you well.
>
> At Arctera/Veritas, we are exploring the addition of support for data
> protection of Proxmox environments within our backup product. We would like
> to know if there is a detailed backup/restore API guide available that could
> serve as a good starting point for our engineering team. Could you please
> assist us with this? We have already reviewed the REST APIs.
Thanks for your interest in supporting Proxmox VE.
We are in progress of adding a way where external backup provider can provide a
plugin to hook safely and correctly into our backup APIs, see:
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.proxmox.com%2Fpve-devel%2F20241114150754.374376-1-f.ebner%40proxmox.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7CPrashant.Gamepatil%40veritas.com%7C1816d6bad0c4419d245a08dd5b3adcd0%7Cfc8e13c0422c4c55b3eaca318e6cac32%7C0%7C0%7C638767030578307107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=X3vGHTDdU8eqfj77XLGcn1myfqvNhPJPaum5dAJcw2Q%3D&reserved=0<https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20241114150754.374376-1-f.eb...@proxmox.com/>
This includes two example plugins to showcase how it would be used.
We would be open to fast-track this effort for inclusion with feedback from
backup vendors. While there are other ways to hook one in, these are not nice
and can cause problems - so in the long term we expect that most/all backup
vendors will switch to this plugin method, at least for supported setups.
best regards
Thomas
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