Progress Report Form Oct 2024
What progress was made on your grant this month?
Middleware Development for Sia Integration:
Cloud Backup API Enhancements:
Integration Testing and Code Maintenance:
User Interface (UI) Improvements:
Phase 8: Beta testing and bug cleanup:
Documentation and Repository Management:
We updated and merged our work on GitHub, including all major middleware and API connection changes, code maintenance tasks, and ExtJS UI updates.
Cloud Backup Middleware Development
Objective: Build middleware to enable interaction between Proxmox Backup Server’s cloud backup APIs and Sia’s decentralized storage API, addressing connectivity issues.
Changes:
Developed the middleware layer to route API calls effectively and provide consistent data handling across platforms.
Added error-handling routines to manage connectivity errors and log middleware actions for debugging.
What was done in the code:
src/middleware/siaIntegrationMiddleware.rs: Main middleware file for API requests.
src/middleware/siaIntegrationTest.js: Middleware test script for Sia API functionality checks.
API Connectivity Enhancements
Objective: Improve cloud backup API’s performance and security by updating dependencies and fixing broken functions.
Changes:Replaced outdated Rust dependencies with optimized libraries for faster and more stable performance.
Fixed broken functions within cloud backup API to ensure proper backend/frontend communication.
pbs/src/api2/cloud/backup.rs: Main cloud backup API file.
pbs/src/api2/cloud/mod.rs: Module configuration for cloud backup.
pbs/src/api2/cloud/restore.rs: Restoration logic for cloud backups.
Encryption & Decryption for Data Security
Objective: Secure data interactions by implementing hash encryption and decryption routines.
Changes:Added encryption methods to secure sensitive data during transmission between cloud backup UI and Sia storage.
www/cloud/window/Hashcrypt.js: Contains hash encryption and decryption methods.
Cloud Backup UI Development
Objective: Improve the cloud backup user experience through API integrations and UI styling enhancements.
Changes:Integrated backup and restore functionality directly into the cloud backup UI.
Enhanced UI and styling for improved user experience and accessibility.
www/cloud/window/CloudBackupJob.js: UI logic for backup jobs.
www/css/ext6-pbscloud.css: Stylesheet for cloud backup UI.
www/cloud/backupworks/backupschedule.js: UI for backup scheduling options.
Access Control and Backup Group Management
Objective: Enhance user access control settings and allow management of backup group ownership.
Changes:Introduced features for editing access control within the UI.
Added functionality to change backup group owners directly from the interface.
www/cloud/window/ACLEdit.js: Access control settings.
www/cloud/window/GroupManager.js: Management of backup groups.
ExtJS Frontend Development and API Testing
Objective: Ensure compatibility and test the UI for Sia integration using ExtJS and API testing tools.
Changes:Continued refining the ExtJS frontend for seamless user interactions with the Sia API.
Conducted API connection tests to validate functionality for cloud backups.
src/cloud/test/alloc_writable_media.rs: Test file for API connections.
www/cloud/window/UIComponents.js: Various UI components.
Links to repos worked on this month:
Merged branch ‘develop’ of https://github.com/AZComputerSolutions/PBSCloudBackupModule
What will you be working on this month?
Beta Testing and Bug Fixes:
Test Server Setup and Deployment:
Middleware Enhancements:
UI Refinements and User Experience Improvements:
Documentation and GitHub Management
Please summarize your development goals into a few sentences or bullet points:
Fix bugs and code dependencies changes in rust that make our code no longer compile . Get a test server setup and working. Document setting up a test server. So that anyone can do it would the code in our github site. I would also like to note that because of the pending approval by the Sia foundation (thank-you for your continued support) we have been running at full development speed this last month.
We were ask by the Sia foundation to shorten our monthly reports but as always, the full version of this document is available at https://www.pbscloudbackup.com/docs/sia/sia-foundation-monthly-report-oct-2024/