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

[Wolfgang Bumiller]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 01:38:12PM +0100, Max Carrara wrote:
> On Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM CET, 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
> 
> To preface all of my following comments: You really did incorporate a
> lot of my feedback, hats off to you! That sure must've been a lot of
> work and it certainly does not go unnoticed nor unappreciated.
> 
> I do have some more comments, but the vast majority of what I had
> mentioned in v4 has been resolved. See more below and in my replies to
> individual patches.
> 
> First and foremost, the patches 1 - 3 can just be dropped - as they're
> already applied, there's no need to keep including them in this series.
> (Nevermind, ignore this - you just mentioned it yourself as I was
> writing this.)
> 
> Furthermore, there are still a handful of things that could use some
> untangling and some minor changes otherwise, but it's nowhere near as
> much as I had mentioned last time. For more details see my comments
> inline on individual patches.
> 
> That being said, I was able to successfully build the whole thing and
> tried to test it against some locally stored backups - unfortunately
> without success. Here's the (adapted) output:
> 
> 
> zstd -d --stdout vzdump-qemu-300-2024_03_25-10_21_10.vma.zst | vma-to-pbs --repository root at pam@my.pbs.tld:8007:default --vmid 300 --password_file ~/pbs-pw.txt
> PBS repository: root at pam@my.pbs.tld:8007:default
> PBS fingerprint: [...]
> compress: false
> encrypt: false
> backup time: 1711360054
> Error: proxmox_backup_connect failed: "command error: parameter verification failed - \'password\': value does not match the regex pattern"
> 
> (Fingerprint was set via env var.)
> 
> I'm 100% certain that my password is correct - it seems to be related to
> proxmox-schema. I haven't really looked into that otherwise yet; maybe
> @Wolfgang could weigh in here?

I'm assuming it's what I mentioned in your listvms.py list.
There's a `std::fs::read_to_string()` for the password, but it should
cut off the trailing newline ;-)