Any plans for aarch/arm64 support in Proxmox Backup Client?

[talos]

Hello,

today i got one of the Oracles always free Ampere A1 ARM instance and thought it would be a good idea to backup content to my proxmox backup server, sadly it looks like there is no arm64 build of the Proxmox backup client.

Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' as repository 'http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client bullseye InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'arm64

Are there any future plans to provide arm support with at least the proxmox backup client?

 

[ojaksch]

There is an arm64/aarch64 (source) package available. It's for Arch Linux (the aarch64 version also), but I don't see an insuperable obstacle why one shouldn't be able to create a package for ie. Debian/Ubuntu.
Arch Linux AUR package of proxmox-backup-client

 

[talos]

There is an arm64/aarch64 (source) package available. It's for Arch Linux (the aarch64 version also), but I don't see an insuperable obstacle why one shouldn't be able to create a package for ie. Debian/Ubuntu.
Arch Linux AUR package of proxmox-backup-client

Hi,

good idea, but i tried a different approach, i installed a debian bullseye container and tried to use the approach from the proxmox developer docs, i failed because there are a lots of dependencies that are not native debian packages and only exist for amd64 "http://download.proxmox.com/debian/devel/dists/bullseye/main/"

solved: https://github.com/ayufan/pve-backup-server-dockerfiles

That containers contains current debs for arm64, installed it on the Ampere Altra ARMv8 maschine and it works

 

[ojaksch]

Hmmm, another fine idea and approach. Congrats to you to have a working PBS/Client in whatever form

 

[wrobelda]

Almost 3 years later and this is still an issue:

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' as repository 'http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client bookworm InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'arm64'

At the very least, you could provide a deb-src repository, which would allow to easily build it with debian tooling, but you also don't:

W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/source/Sources' as repository 'http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client bookworm InRelease' does not seem to provide it (sources.list entry misspelt?)

Considering how popular ARM servers are becoming, this is a very odd omission.

 

[AFrenchCompany]

Could someone from the Proxmox team clarify the challenges in offering arm64 .deb packages or a deb-src repository?

Some of us may be able to contribute PR, hardware, or financial resources to help.

Just to state the obvious but, arm64 is gaining serious steam so this topic should become of interest to many.