[pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Hello Prashant,

Am 04.03.25 um 16:47 schrieb Prashant Patil:
> Hello All,
> Hope this email finds you well.
> 
> At Arctera/Veritas, we are exploring the addition of support for data protection of Proxmox environments within our backup product. We would like to know if there is a detailed backup/restore API guide available that could serve as a good starting point for our engineering team. Could you please assist us with this? We have already reviewed the REST APIs.

Thanks for your interest in supporting Proxmox VE.

We are in progress of adding a way where external backup provider can
provide a plugin to hook safely and correctly into our backup APIs, see:

https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20241114150754.374376-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com/

This includes two example plugins to showcase how it would be used.

We would be open to fast-track this effort for inclusion with feedback
from backup vendors. While there are other ways to hook one in, these
are not nice and can cause problems – so in the long term we expect that
most/all backup vendors will switch to this plugin method, at least for
supported setups.

best regards
Thomas