[pbs-devel] [RFC v2 pxar proxmox-backup 00/23] fix #3174: improve file-level backup
Christian Ebner
c.ebner at proxmox.com
Mon Oct 9 13:51:16 CEST 2023
Disclaimer: Version 2 of the patch series remains work in progress and
is only intended for review/testing purposes.
Changes to the patch series since version 1 are based on the feedback
obtained via mailing list or other communication channels. Many thanks
to Fabian, Wolfgang and Thomas for testing and discussions.
This series of patches prototypes a possible approach to improve the
pxar file level backup creation speed.
The current approach is to skip encoding of regular file payloads,
for which metadata (currently ctime and size) did not change as
compared to a previous backup run. Instead of re-encoding the files, a
reference to a newly introduced appendix section of the pxar archive
will be written. The appendix section will be created as concatenation
of indexed chunks from the previous backup run, thereby containing the
sequential file payload at a calculated offset with respect to the
starting point of the appendix section.
Metadata comparison and calculation of the chunks to be indexed for the
appendix section is performed using the catalog of a previous backup as
reference. In order to be able to calculate the offsets, an updated
catalog file format version 2 is introduced which extends the previous
version by including the file offset with respect to the pxar archive
byte stream, as well as the files ctime. This allows to find the required
chunks indexes and the start padding within the concatenated chunks.
The catalog reader remains backwards compatible to the catalog file
format version 1.
During encoding, the chunks needed for the appendix section are injected
in the backup upload stream after forcing a chunk boundary when regular
pxar encoding is finished. Finally, the pxar archive containing an
appendix section are marked as such by appending a final pxar goodbye
lookup table only containing the offset to the appendix section start and
total size of that section, needed for random access as e.g. to mount
the archive via the fuse filesystem implementation.
The following lists the most notable changes included in this series since
the previous version 1:
- fixes and refactors the missing chunk issue by modifying the logic to
avoid re-appending the same chunks multiple times if referenced by
multiple consecutive files.
- fixes a performance issue with catalog lookup being the bottleneck
for cases with directories with many entries, resulting in the
metadata based file change detection performing worse than the regular
mode.
- fixes the creation of multi archive backups. All of the archives use
the same reference catalog.
- the catalog file format is pushed to version 2, including the needed
archive offsets as well as ctime for file change detection.
- the catalog is fully backward compatible to catalog file format
version 1, so both can be decoded by the reader. However, the new
version of the catalog file format will be used for all new backups
- it is now possible to perform multiple consecutive runs of the backup
with metadata based file change detection, no more need to perform the
regular run previous to the other one.
- change from `incremental` flag to enum based `BackupDetectionMode`
parameter for command invocations.
- includes a new `proxmox-backup-test-suite` binary to create and run
benchmarks to compare the performance of the different detection modes.
An invocation of a backup run with this patches now is:
```bash
proxmox-backup-client backup <label>.pxar:<source-path> --change-detection-mode=metadata
```
During the first run, no reference catalog can be used, the backup will
be a regular run. Following backups will however utilize the catalog and
index files of the previous run to perform file change detection.
As benchmarks, the linux source code as well as the coco dataset for
computer vision and pattern recognition can be used.
The benchmarks can be performed by running:
```bash
proxmox-backup-test-suite detection-mode-bench prepare --target /<path-to-bench-source-target>
proxmox-backup-test-suite detection-mode-bench run linux.pxar:/<path-to-bench-source-target>/linux
proxmox-backup-test-suite detection-mode-bench run coco.pxar:/<path-to-bench-source-target>/coco
```
Above command invocations assume the default repository and credentials
to be set as environment variables, they might however be passed as
additinal optional parameters instead.
Initial benchmark runs using these test data show a significant
improvement in the time needed for the backups:
For the linux source code backup:
Completed benchmark with 5 runs for each tested mode.
Completed regular backup with:
Total runtime: 50.41 s
Average: 10.08 ± 0.11 s
Min: 9.93 s
Max: 10.19 s
Completed metadata detection mode backup with:
Total runtime: 8.93 s
Average: 1.79 ± 0.06 s
Min: 1.74 s
Max: 1.86 s
Differences (metadata based - regular):
Delta total runtime: -41.48 s (-82.28 %)
Delta average: -8.30 ± 0.13 s (-82.28 %)
Delta min: -8.19 s (-82.52 %)
Delta max: -8.33 s (-81.77 %)
For the coco dataset backup:
Completed benchmark with 5 runs for each tested mode.
Completed regular backup with:
Total runtime: 587.54 s
Average: 117.51 ± 2.66 s
Min: 114.32 s
Max: 119.62 s
Completed metadata detection mode backup with:
Total runtime: 111.07 s
Average: 22.21 ± 0.19 s
Min: 22.05 s
Max: 22.54 s
Differences (metadata based - regular):
Delta total runtime: -476.47 s (-81.10 %)
Delta average: -95.29 ± 2.66 s (-81.10 %)
Delta min: -92.27 s (-80.71 %)
Delta max: -97.08 s (-81.16 %)
Above tests were performed inside a test VM backing up to a local
datastore.
pxar:
Christian Ebner (7):
fix #3174: decoder: factor out skip_bytes from skip_entry
fix #3174: decoder: impl skip_bytes for sync dec
fix #3174: encoder: calc filename + metadata byte size
fix #3174: enc/dec: impl PXAR_APPENDIX_REF entrytype
fix #3174: enc/dec: impl PXAR_APPENDIX entrytype
fix #3174: encoder: helper to add to encoder position
fix #3174: enc/dec: impl PXAR_APPENDIX_TAIL entrytype
examples/mk-format-hashes.rs | 11 +++
examples/pxarcmd.rs | 4 +-
src/accessor/mod.rs | 46 +++++++++++
src/decoder/mod.rs | 50 ++++++++++--
src/decoder/sync.rs | 5 ++
src/encoder/aio.rs | 32 +++++++-
src/encoder/mod.rs | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/encoder/sync.rs | 39 ++++++++-
src/format/mod.rs | 16 ++++
src/lib.rs | 10 +++
10 files changed, 348 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
proxmox-backup:
Christian Ebner (16):
fix #3174: index: add fn index list from start/end-offsets
fix #3174: index: add fn digest for DynamicEntry
fix #3174: api: double catalog upload size
fix #3174: catalog: introduce extended format v2
fix #3174: archiver/extractor: impl appendix ref
fix #3174: catalog: add specialized Archive entry
fix #3174: extractor: impl seq restore from appendix
fix #3174: archiver: store ref to previous backup
fix #3174: upload stream: impl reused chunk injector
fix #3174: chunker: add forced boundaries
fix #3174: backup writer: inject queued chunk in upload steam
fix #3174: archiver: reuse files with unchanged metadata
fix #3174: schema: add backup detection mode schema
fix #3174: client: Add detection mode to backup creation
test-suite: add detection mode change benchmark
test-suite: Add bin to deb, add shell completions
Cargo.toml | 1 +
Makefile | 13 +-
debian/proxmox-backup-client.bash-completion | 1 +
debian/proxmox-backup-client.install | 2 +
debian/proxmox-backup-test-suite.bc | 8 +
examples/test_chunk_speed2.rs | 9 +-
pbs-api-types/src/datastore.rs | 41 ++
pbs-client/src/backup_writer.rs | 88 +--
pbs-client/src/catalog_shell.rs | 3 +-
pbs-client/src/chunk_stream.rs | 41 +-
pbs-client/src/inject_reused_chunks.rs | 123 ++++
pbs-client/src/lib.rs | 1 +
pbs-client/src/pxar/create.rs | 314 +++++++++-
pbs-client/src/pxar/extract.rs | 141 +++++
pbs-client/src/pxar/mod.rs | 2 +-
pbs-client/src/pxar/tools.rs | 9 +
pbs-client/src/pxar_backup_stream.rs | 8 +-
pbs-datastore/src/catalog.rs | 568 +++++++++++++++---
pbs-datastore/src/dynamic_index.rs | 37 ++
pbs-datastore/src/file_formats.rs | 3 +
proxmox-backup-client/src/main.rs | 161 ++++-
proxmox-backup-test-suite/Cargo.toml | 18 +
.../src/detection_mode_bench.rs | 288 +++++++++
proxmox-backup-test-suite/src/main.rs | 17 +
.../src/proxmox_restore_daemon/api.rs | 21 +-
pxar-bin/src/main.rs | 23 +-
src/api2/backup/upload_chunk.rs | 4 +-
src/tape/file_formats/snapshot_archive.rs | 2 +-
tests/catar.rs | 3 +
zsh-completions/_proxmox-backup-test-suite | 13 +
30 files changed, 1789 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 debian/proxmox-backup-test-suite.bc
create mode 100644 pbs-client/src/inject_reused_chunks.rs
create mode 100644 proxmox-backup-test-suite/Cargo.toml
create mode 100644 proxmox-backup-test-suite/src/detection_mode_bench.rs
create mode 100644 proxmox-backup-test-suite/src/main.rs
create mode 100644 zsh-completions/_proxmox-backup-test-suite
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