Recent content by cyruspy

Oh, yes. The 1:1 CLI native client for Windows is in progress. The next challenge is to fund the usd 300 yearly certificate to make Smartscreen and SecureBoot happy (MSI installer + NBD kernel driver). While thinking beyond that point is that I thought of follow up options: A- small system bar...

Hello, I would like to share the initiative of packaging the Linux client for different distributions as a nice opportunity to give back to the PBS creators and the community. I've repackaged the original supported client in native RPM/DEB packages for: Install Replace <REPO> with your...

Which distribution are you running?

Hello, Much to my dismay, I've came across a heavy Windows usage environment, with not all running on PVE (yet?). I would like to write a native Windows client, with proper signage and a msi installer to simplify its lifecycle. Also, I believe we need a scheduler to centralize management of...

Hmm, I didn't see that one coming I've just shrank my original OS rpool to 50GB. Will think about it. PS: does it mean the datastore will be just a folder somewhere and not a different pool, correct?

Yes, you are correct about the scenario. In a "let's design this and purchase this" scenario I would purchase dedicated flash storage for metadata. Is sharing the small boot disks what concerns me.

I'm not sure I'm following. This machine is only for PBS, live data are in other computers.

Hello!, While deploying Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) for personal backups (NAS files and PVE test VMs), I noticed that SSDs are preferred for the datastore. Since this is a "cost-effective" scenario, I'll have to use leftover mechanical disks. Would it be possible to use the two SSD boot drives...

Currently proxmox-backup-client is a stateless, outbound-only CLI, and PBS operates purely as a passive storage endpoint. For non-PVE / standalone Linux hosts, backups must be scheduled locally per-host (e.g. cron or systemd timers). This creates operational gaps: - No central control or...

By the way, it seems I'm late to the game. Another user has done the same: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/inofficial-proxmox-backup-client-rpm-builds-for-rhel-based-distros.122862/

work is actually ongoing, validation will be only done for x86_64 in my personal lab, plus smoke test for aarch64. I expect first batch finished for tomorrow: https://download.opensuse.org/download/repositories/home:/ciriarte:/pbs-client/ https://github.com/ciroiriarte/pbs-client If you can...

What's the ask specifically?, is it to have a PVE client or a regular Linux client?. I'm working to repack the Linux client for other distros (openSUSE/Rocky), for x86_64 and ARM64, I could extend the work to build for Debian ARM64 until there are official builds. Scope is just repackaging, no...

It should be "nice" :)

That not the target of this kind of solutions. IaaS consumers couldn't care less about ZFS health. I do see the gap, unsure about the way forward though.

Reminds me of vSphere and vRealize Automation. The good and the bad parts. I do see the benefit, I'm also trying to define how to present PVE as IaaS. The challenge of implementing a CMP is that you have two duplicated implementations (one functional to the platform admins, the other easy to...