Backing up aarch64 client system to PBS

[CRCinAU]

Hi all,

I haven't been able to find any information on backing up a machine that is not a VM to the PBS installation.

I'm trying to back up everything from an embedded board that is aarch64 running Fedora 43.

Is there a static binary download somewhere that is distributed for these cases?

 

[sterzy]

No currently we only provide a static binary for x86-64 based machines: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-statically-linked-proxmox-backup-client
In theory, you could try to compile such a client yourself, though, given you are comfortable doing so.

 

[CRCinAU]

Is it possible to add to the roadmap to have a single, static, unpackaged binary for both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures for download?

This would allow the client to be used much easier on a much wider set of systems.

 

[sterzy]

You can check if there is already an open issue over in our Bugzilla [1] and express your support there. If there isn't an existing issue for this, feel free to open one.

[1]: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/

 

[CRCinAU]

Understood. Added: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7436

fwiw, the bugzilla has a current issue:

Software error:​

Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/Sys/Hostname/Long.pm line 82.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

Perl tainting strikes again

 

[sterzy]

Perl tainting strikes again

Yeah, seems that way, we are aware of this and will hopefully fix this soon. Thanks for the report!