[pbs-devel] [PATCH v5 vma-to-pbs 00/10] Implement vma-to-pbs tool

[Filip Schauer]

Patch v6 is available:

https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pbs-devel/2024-April/008291.html

On 20/03/2024 15:15, Filip Schauer wrote:
> Implement a tool to import VMA files into a Proxmox Backup Server
>
> Example usage:
>
> zstd -d --stdout vzdump.vma.zst | vma-to-pbs \
>      --repository <auth_id at host:port:datastore> \
>      --vmid 123 \
>      --password_file pbs_password
>
> Commit 07/10 requires
> https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2024-March/062182.html
> to be applied first.
>
> Changes since v4:
> * Bump proxmox-backup-qemu
> * Remove unnecessary "extern crate" declarations
> * Refactor error handling with anyhow
> * vma.rs: Improve code readability by adding constants and using more
>    descriptive variable/type names.
> * vma.rs: Move duplicate code into read_string function
> * Print elapsed time in minutes, seconds and ms
> * Refactor block device id and size retrieval logic
> * vma: Document break statement when reaching end of file
> * Use selected imports instead of glob imports
> * Split up vma2pbs logic into seperate functions
> * Makefile: remove reference to unused submodule
>
> Changes since v3:
> * Add the ability to provide credentials via files
> * Add support for streaming the VMA file via stdin
> * Add a fallback for the --fingerprint argument
>
> Changes since v2:
> * Use the deb packages from the proxmox-io and proxmox-sys dependencies
>    instead of the proxmox submodule
> * Remove the proxmox submodule
> * Update the proxmox-backup-qemu submodule to make it buildable with
>    the newest librust dependencies
>
> Changes since v1:
> * Remove unused crates and uses
> * Format the code
> * Use anyhow for error handling
> * Use clap for parsing arguments instead of getopts
> * Fix blocks being reindexed on every read
> * Make sure ProxmoxBackupHandle is dropped properly on error
> * Move image_chunk_buffer from stack to heap
> * Move the block_index in VmaReader to the heap completely
> * Initialize vectors with `Vec::with_capacity` and `resize` instead of
>    the `vec!` macro, to potentially improve performance on debug builds.
> * Add comments to code filling the MD5 sum field with zeros
> * Change device_id arguments to usize
> * Handle devices that have a size that is not aligned to 4096 properly
>    in read_device_contents, when the caller provides a buffer that would
>    exceed the device size.
> * Avoid unnecessary loop iterations in read_device_contents when the
>    buffer size is not aligned to 65536
>
> Filip Schauer (8):
>    Initial commit
>    Add the ability to provide credentials via files
>    bump proxmox-backup-qemu
>    remove unnecessary "extern crate" declarations
>    add support for streaming the VMA file via stdin
>    add a fallback for the --fingerprint argument
>    refactor error handling with anyhow
>    Makefile: remove reference to unused submodule
>
> Wolfgang Bumiller (2):
>    cargo fmt
>    bump proxmox-backup-qemu
>