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Hi Thomas,
We have few more questions in addition to those mentioned in the previous e=
mail.

  1.  How to get allocated blocks/sectors from the snapshot of the raw form=
at virtual disk attached to a running VM (disk present on the block based s=
torage such as lvm, lvm-thin, etc)?
  2.  How to get allocated blocks/sectors from the snapshot of the vmdk for=
mat virtual disk attached to a running VM?
  3.  As per below link, certain storage types do not support snapshots. In=
 such cases, what is the recommended way to take backup of the running VM?

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage

Could you kindly assist us in obtaining answers to these questions?

Thanks
Prashant

From: Prashant Patil <Prashant.Gamepatil@veritas.com>
Sent: 05 March 2025 12:06 PM
To: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>; pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
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vonEberstein@veritas.com>; Sudhir Subbarao <Sudhir.Subbarao@veritas.com>
Subject: RE: About PVE Backup Integration Guide


Thank you, Thomas, for your prompt response to this.



We would like to know following things:

  1.  How much part of the plugins method is done?
  2.  How soon we can start the integration?
  3.  Is there any plugin method's documentation already available? If yes,=
 could you please share?



Regards,

Prashant



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Subject: Re: About PVE Backup Integration Guide





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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 pro=
tection 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 a=
ssist 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 provi=
de a plugin to hook safely and correctly into our backup APIs, see:



https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Flore.pr=
oxmox.com%2Fpve-devel%2F20241114150754.374376-1-f.ebner%40proxmox.com%2F&da=
ta=3D05%7C02%7CPrashant.Gamepatil%40veritas.com%7C1816d6bad0c4419d245a08dd5=
b3adcd0%7Cfc8e13c0422c4c55b3eaca318e6cac32%7C0%7C0%7C638767030578307107%7CU=
nknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW=
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7XLGcn1myfqvNhPJPaum5dAJcw2Q%3D&reserved=3D0<https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-d=
evel/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 n=
ice and can cause problems - so in the long term we expect that most/all ba=
ckup vendors will switch to this plugin method, at least for supported setu=
ps.



best regards

Thomas



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