[Package Request] Proxmox Backup Client

[edersong]

Software Name

Proxmox Backup Client

Brief Description

Proxmox Backup Client is a client backup tool to perform file backup to Proxmox Backup Server.
As there is no original binary for arm technology, proxmoxbackupclient_go can be used to be able to perform file backups directly from Synology
Ref.: https://github.com/tizbac/proxmoxbackupclient_go/releases

Website

https://github.com/tizbac/proxmoxbackupclient_go/

Documentation

https://github.com/tizbac/proxmoxbackupclient_go

Build/Installation documentation

https://github.com/tizbac/proxmoxbackupclient_go

Source code

https://github.com/tizbac/proxmoxbackupclient_go

OpenSource License

GPLv3

Other License

No response

[bennetgallein]

I'm willing to sponsor development of this package with a 150 Euro bounty

[hgy59]

@edersong what do you expect? It seems that proxmoxbackupclient_go is a tool for desktop systems and not for headless linux.

proxmoxbackupclient_go depends on gtk, that does not work on headless systems.
But we might try the original proxmox-backup-client.

[bennetgallein]

I can confirm that the build does work on linux, downloading the latest release, unpacking and running:

# wget https://github.com/tizbac/proxmoxbackupclient_go/releases/download/v0.0.4/proxmoxbackupclient_go_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
# tar -xzvf proxmoxbackupclient_go_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
# ./vet -baseurl "https://fsn1-1.pbs-host.de:8007" -authid 'root@pam!test' -secret "ec196b4d-a288-4561-815f-xxx" -backupdir "/home/bennet/Downloads" -datastore "zfs" -namespace "bg-test"

The native backup client itself would be the better take, I a gree. For reference the repository lives here: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=summary there's also a readme with build instructions: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=blob;f=README.rst;h=b3829a761867d98247097f4fdb3f44c00d58fe90;hb=HEAD

From what I want/need the following would be great to have:

1. Setup Datastore(s) with authentication and Namespace support
2. Setup Backup jobs that backup to a previously created connection

[hgy59]

The native backup client itself would be the better take, I a gree.

no, the original seems even worse to build (rust with custom crates repo).

[bennetgallein]

The native backup client itself would be the better take, I a gree.

no, the original seems even worse to build (rust with custom crates repo).

I did not say it's easier to build, but it would be better to use the official binary instead of a third-party one.

[bennetgallein]

There has been a release for a statically compiled client:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-statically-linked-proxmox-backup-client

it can be extracted from this archive: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client/dists/bookworm/main/binary-amd64/proxmox-backup-client-static_3.4.0-1_amd64.deb

[hgy59]

proxmox-backup-client installation instructions (in german)
https://www.bachmann-lan.de/proxmox-backup-client-xpenology/

EDIT:
debian packages are available for x64 (amd64) only.
The static version runs without other libraries.

@bennetgallein do you still need it for arm archs?

[bennetgallein]

https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4788

I swear I read somewhere about an ARM build, but I cannot find it again.

I requested this on behalf of the community. I run a commercial project that (I think) would benefit from having this.

[hgy59]

Found a solution to compile proxmoxbackupclient_go for linux (see #6628).
We welcome any feedback.

[bennetgallein]

This is a great first step to get this running!

In order to make it more user-friendly I was thinking about a configuration-page in the Webapp where you can enter the hostname and user-name password and perhaps select the volumes you want to backup.

I don't know about GUI development so I cannot make an estimate how much work that would be.