Thanks @rdwild, do you have an estimate of when your report will be available?
Not at the moment, Steve, our dev is still in the hospital.
I just want to mention that proxmox 8.4 added a way to create 3rd party backup plugins. This could be a better and faster solution to integrate it into proxmox. See Post Proxmox VE 8.4 released! | Proxmox Support Forum
Especially since looking at this plugin code on the public git repository, I can’t really say that this is nearly ready for any testing, or even able to be compiled.
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Is this actually going somewhere? I went through the code and some commits, and to call those a joke is unfortunately fitting :/ I mean, there are literal diffs commited… No, but really, this [1] has to be a joke, right?
Since PBS uses Ember.js (v3.28+)
what does that mean? Is that what you built that UI with you took the screenshot of? Cause there is not a trace of it in the actual PBS source(if I missed it, please point it out to me).
So, I guess what I am trying to ask is: Is this a grant money cash-grab, or is this a serious effort? @rdwild
[1] sia api integration · AZComputerSolutions/PBSCloudBackupModule@6f84400 · GitHub
it is a serious effort. And if it was a cash grab, I never got any as the owner of the project.
Rodney Wild
A-Z Computer Solutions
Better question is if this will not be merged into the official pbs git, who will use it? Maybe some homeuser, but as a company, I would want to use any fork since it’s a liability issue, if something happens. For pbs I can get support, but not in a fork.
So in my opinion especially since the code base is worse then a 2000 column database table, I would say this isn’t going anywhere.
@steve
Ok, this is a scam. I thought you needed to post updates every month. But now February, march, are missing. Idk if April will come.
But I think, that 1. Such a project should not cost 80k+, and for 80k, I would expect this project to be done in 4 month top.
Imagine what 80k could do to actual open source devs, creating way better/important things.
But this is also not open source, since it was stated that it has already been compiled correctly, but also veryfiyng the current codebase my self, I can agree with @TameBrand and @GunniBusch that this is not nearly far to be compiled successfully. Which mean either the demos are fake or @rdwild only publishes enough to satisfy @steve.
It’s just sad, because I know that this project is something many pbs users want. But the fact that nearly nobody of them knows about this is another red flag.
I hope, funding will be stopped, and given to actual motivated people.
And yes, I have read the developer is in hospital, but like I said earlier the project should have been completed already. But normally, if announced correctly, I bet there would be a lot of people that would have helped for free, but this project is so hidden, no one knows.
Where do you think the idea came from to add plugin capability? If you read our proposal, it came from us.
Based on recently received info from the developer, we will be marking this project as Inactive.
@rdwild, I understand you were in a tough spot with the developer’s health and ability to work. If you’re still able to complete this grant, that’s great and you should do so. Please update us here if the status of this grant changes.
@rdwild if you need help to end developpement of the project you Can contact me. We will be happy to help you to end this project. We believe it has real potential and could help a large number of system administrators who use Proxmox to have a robust and low-cost storage system like Sia’s.