[pbs-devel] [PATCH v4 vma-to-pbs 0/6] Implement vma-to-pbs tool

[Filip Schauer]

Patch v5 is available:

https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pbs-devel/2024-March/008178.html

On 05/03/2024 14:56, Filip Schauer wrote:
> Implement a tool to import VMA files into a Proxmox Backup Server
>
> Example usage:
>
> zstd -d --stdout vzdump.vma.zstd | vma-to-pbs \
>      --repository <auth_id at host:port:datastore> \
>      --vmid 123 \
>      --password_file pbs_password
>
> 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 (4):
>    Initial commit
>    Add the ability to provide credentials via files
>    Add support for streaming the VMA file via stdin
>    Add a fallback for the --fingerprint argument
>
> Wolfgang Bumiller (2):
>    cargo fmt
>    bump proxmox-backup-qemu
>