Install the backup client on ubuntu 22.04 server?

[Hanan]

Agree....I might ditch it for something else.

 

[tjk]

Agree....I might ditch it for something else.

I would ditch my Veeam and Comet if they did better client side support. I use it for our PVE VM's and it works perfect.

 

[arukashi]

What if we use libzstd package from another sources, for example,

wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lunar/amd64/libzstd1/1.5.4+dfsg2-4

so we can use pbs-client v3 (installation was successful in my case)?
I know this isn't recommended, so as having outdated libssl package in the system.
Is there some heavy consequences with third party libzstd package?

 

[fabian]

it depends on the library and their stability guarantees, and how it is packaged.

 

[fotisevangelou]

As of OCT 2023, there seems to be an updated release of "libssl1.1" and we can also use a repo instead of using dpkg to manually install the relevant .deb file...

# Install the Debian Bullseye repo key first (this repo is "closest" to Ubuntu 22.04 "jammy")
wget https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-bullseye.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-release-bullseye.gpg
# Setup the PBS client repo
echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client bullseye main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pbs-client.list
# Setup the LibSSL1.1 client repo from the Ubuntu "focal" security repo (apparently it's not yet available for "jammy")
echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/focal-security.list
# Update repos and install PBS client
apt update && apt install -y proxmox-backup-client

...or as a one-liner:

wget https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-bullseye.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-release-bullseye.gpg; echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs-client bullseye main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pbs-client.list; echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/focal-security.list; apt update && apt install -y proxmox-backup-client

The PBS client installation will auto-fetch LibSSL1.1 and other dependencies.

The above will eventually install v2.4.1 of the PBS client.

 

[reto]

@fabian this is still very frustrating

Again today I tried to install the pbs client on ubuntu 22.04. Now more than 1.5 y after the release and i still needs googeling to get it running.

 

[Fra]

ping from us, too

 

[jmaitra]

nope,

bad news: tried with ubuntu 22.04 lts and bookworm repsoitories - still received "proxmox-backup-client : Depends: libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2) but 1.4.8+dfsg-3build1 is to be installed"
but good news: tried with ubuntu 24.04 lts and bookworm respositories -- successful installation without any hassle

to PROXMOX-Team: is it possible to update your documentation ?