proxmox-backup-client for other distributions

[Rufus Ebonhawk]

We know that there is only an official client for Debian.

We know that we can compile a client for EL8 from here, which we do:
https://github.com/sg4r/proxmox-backup-client/releases

We can see that more clients are planned in the roadmap:

• Backup clients for other operating systems

There are also many posts in this forum about the need for more supported distributions. Official statement about a timing is not available.

We tried to update the patch to get version 2.1.5 (current with patch from the Github repo is 2.1.2) but the needed commits are not available in the official git repo: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=summary

Could someone update the git repo or give an instruction how we can update the source to compile version 2.1.5 - the maintainer from the above repo is not available.

Best would be to get official supported clients from Proxmox.

 

[Zappy]

there is non-offcierl client for arm64 and arm32 as well 2.1.5
https://github.com/ayufan/pve-backup-server-dockerfiles

for sure a official release would be better but....

 

[fabian]

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=commit;h=7a524f1048c22f99dbd729e141e28397fcf81d3b 2.1.5 is in the repo, it just wasn't tagged..

 

[Rufus Ebonhawk]

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=commit;h=7a524f1048c22f99dbd729e141e28397fcf81d3b 2.1.5 is in the repo, it just wasn't tagged..

Thank you - you could you give us a pointer which commit of the proxmox repo fits to this commit of proxmox-backup?

 

[fabian]

see https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-...0;hb=7a524f1048c22f99dbd729e141e28397fcf81d3b

 

[Rufus Ebonhawk]

Thank you, currently we can't dive deeper into the source code. We are willing to pay someone who can show us how to compile properly new versions of proxmox-backup-client for EL8.x (Rocky). Can you point someone out?

 

[Rufus Ebonhawk]

see https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-...0;hb=7a524f1048c22f99dbd729e141e28397fcf81d3b

commit id was what we wanted ;-)

 

[fabian]

commit id was what we wanted ;-)

when building the PBS packages, we don't build the dependencies from git, but from packages - the versions of which you find in the link I posted

you can either check the corresponding git repo for the bump commit for that version, or you can download the corresponding packages (e.g., librust-proxmox-dev in the desired version) from our devel repo, they just contain the source code (in /usr/share/cargo/registry/...) and some metadata files.