Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-17 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
ganization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you believe this is a phishing email, use the Report to Cybersecurity icon in Outlook. Am 05.03.25 um 07:36 schrieb Prashant Patil via pve-devel: > 1. How much part of the

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-25 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- > There are pre-built packages with the series incorporated available at [0] > with SHA256SUM [1]. Does that mean the backup provider plugin is not yet available as part of any qemu/proxmox release? If not in the released version, then which version would have these change

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-18 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- We have tried the steps mentioned here to create copy-before-write snapshot - https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg876056.html However, one of the commands 'blockdev-replace' fails with below error: {"error": {"class": "CommandNotFound", "desc": "The command

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-20 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Hello Fiona and Thomas, Could you please assist in resolving the query mentioned below? Thanks Prashant -Original Message- From: Prashant Patil Sent: 18 March 2025 02:29 PM To: Fiona Ebner ; Proxmox VE development discussion ; Thomas Lamprecht Cc: Anuradha Joshi ;

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-04-04 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Basically, the backup/restore tasks will be managed through our backup solution. So, all we needed is VM config which can be fetched through PVE REST API and a API to get access to consistent disk image which can be then transferred to backup storage that we support. But it

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-04-04 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Ok, will give plugins a try and see if we can achieve backup/restore management from our backup solution. 1. Can we just implement backup provider plugin and not storage plugin? We can build storage plugin in subsequent releases. 2. What are the steps to configure/d

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-26 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Hi Fiona, Which proxmox version those patches shared earlier are based off? And are there any specific steps/sequence to install those patches. I know we can install package through "dpkg -i". I'm having this PVE version installed currently: root@rs-proxmox2:/home/ppatil/p

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-04-01 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Just for clarity - The backup/restore jobs will be configured on the Proxmox VE side, the job gets triggered on Proxmox VE side and that is where the provider API comes into picture to take backups to specified storage. Is this understanding correct? Thanks Prashant

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-04-01 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Instead of making such multiple hops, can we have APIs exposed by Proxmox VE which we can use? E.g. API to get consistent snapshot-access to a virtual disk. This way we have better control on monitoring jobs, API contracts are decided, it is also easy to troubleshoot issues

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-17 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- > That sounds like you want to roll your own external solution instead of using > the backup provider API that is currently being developed. We are happy to integrate with backup provider APIs if they are stable and ready for the integration. On this same thread, I had asked

[pve-devel] FW: About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-04 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- 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 a

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-04 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- 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 y

[pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-06 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- 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 a

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-05 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- 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, et

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-04-04 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Thanks for answering all questions. When does Proxmox VE backend calls functions from the plugin? The backup/restore tasks/jobs are configured in our Backup Solution hence this question. Thanks Prashant -Original Message- From: Fiona Ebner Sent: 01 April 2

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-23 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Thanks Fiona. We would like to do plugin integration POC. So, for that to get started, we would like to know various interfaces of these plugins. Is there any detailed API documentation available for these plugins? Also, do you have any test app code which integrates with t

Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

2025-03-27 Thread Prashant Patil via pve-devel
--- Begin Message --- Ok, Thanks. I will give it a try. We also have a few questions related to the plugin. So, to fast-track the discussion, can we join over a zoom/teams call based on your availability? Thanks Prashant -Original Message- From: Fiona Ebner Sent: 27 March 2025 02:20 PM