Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide

From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Prashant Patil <Prashant.Gamepatil@veritas.com>,
	Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
	Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Cc: Anuradha Joshi <Anuradha.Joshi@veritas.com>,
	Sudhir Subbarao <Sudhir.Subbarao@veritas.com>,
	Jason Voneberstein <Jason.vonEberstein@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] About PVE Backup Integration Guide
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 17:38:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b4cf394-0027-4b7c-b6fa-80dea8838d02@proxmox.com> (raw)
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Am 01.04.25 um 13:54 schrieb Prashant Patil:
> Instead of making such multiple hops, can we have APIs exposed by
> Proxmox VE which we can use? E.g. API to get consistent snapshot-access
> to a virtual disk.
>
> This way we have better control on monitoring jobs, API contracts are
> decided, it is also easy to troubleshoot issues on each side, etc. Let
> me know your thoughts on this. With Proxmox VE REST APIs, we already
> have several APIs for nodes/VMs management.

There are no endpoints in the Proxmox VE REST API for setting up backup
access to a guest or similar. And the backup provider API is simply not
designed for this, but to be fully integrated in Proxmox VE. What you
can do is leverage Proxmox VE REST API for the backup/restore tasks, but
not just for parts of such tasks.

Best Regards,
Fiona

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