Mostly affects docs and some JS UI components, but also changes the
section type name of the s3 client endpoints.
While the s3 client crate is aptly named, the config actually
describing how to access an S3 object storage is not really a client,
but a definition of an endpoint/remote/repo/address.
This is really no problem per se, but such internal names tend to leak
and can cause (a tiny bit!) confusion for users if they see with e.g.
"S3 Endpoints" in the UI but the same thing now uses "s3client" in the
config file.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
The latest updates to the backup-job UI completely drop the term
"Notification System" from the UI, instead we now use "Global
notification settings", which should be hopefully a bit clearer to users
with regards to what this actually means.
Some of the touched sections were slightly rephrased to improve clarity.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Köppl <m.koeppl@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250723112220.278700-1-l.wagner@proxmox.com
To reduce friction, provide several provider specific example
configurations as reference.
With vhost style vs. path style bucket addressing, templating and all
the other provider specific configuration options, it can be rather
confusing on how to actually configure an S3 endpoint to be used as
PBS datastore backend. So having some concrete examples to lookup or
point to can help.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250723080231.189207-3-c.ebner@proxmox.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
S3 object store providers typically charge not only for storage
usage, but also for API requests. Explicitley warn the user about
this in the docs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250723080231.189207-2-c.ebner@proxmox.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250721113314.59342-9-h.laimer@proxmox.com
Reviewed-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Tested-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
The WebUI and CLI have been adapted to use s3 endpoint rather than S3
client, so update the documentation to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Describe required basic S3 client setup and possible configuration
options as well as the actual setup of a datastore using the client and
a bucket as backend.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Since commit 37a85cf6 ("fix: ui: sync job: edit rate limit based on
sync direction") rate limits for sync jobs can be correctly applied
for both directions. State this in the documentation and explicitley
mention the directions to reduce confusion.
Further, also mention the burst parameters, as they are not mentioned
at all.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250623124543.590388-1-c.ebner@proxmox.com
To fix the following exception one gets with the Sphinx and Python
versions from Trixie:
File "/home/tom/sources/others/pbs/proxmox-backup/build/docs/_ext/proxmox-scanrefs.py", line 92, in write_doc
filename_html = re.sub('.rst', '.html', filename)
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/re/__init__.py", line 208, in sub
return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object, got '_StrPath'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Explicitly mention that the value sets the available cache slots and
not only mention the value being set to 0 disables the cache, but
rather give also the default and maximum values.
Reported in the community forum:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/164869/post-771224
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Discurage the use of the statically linked binary for systems where
the regular one is available.
Moves the previous note into it's own section and link to the
installation section.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250410093059.130504-1-c.ebner@proxmox.com
To have something in the docs.
In the long run we want a somewhat fancy and safe mechanism to host
these builds directly on the CDN and implement querying that for
updates, verified with a backed in public key, but for starters this
very basic docs has to suffice.
We could also describe how to extract the client from the .deb through
`ar` or `dpkg -x`, but that feels a bit to hacky for the docs, maybe
better explained on-demand in the forum or the like.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Add a note mentioning that the statically linked binary does not use
the same mechanism for name resolution as the regular client, in
particular that this does not support NSS.
The statically linked binary cannot use the `getaddrinfo` based name
resolution because of possible ABI incompatibility. It therefore is
conditionally compiled and linked using the name resolution provided
by hickory-resolver, part of hickory-dns [0].
[0] https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
This section is meant to give a basic overview on how to use
custom templates for notifications. It will be expanded in the
future, providing a more detailed view on how templates are resolved,
existing fallback mechanisms, available templates, template
variables and helpers.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Zeidler <a.zeidler@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250409084628.125951-1-l.wagner@proxmox.com
Explicitly mention how to set the rate limit for sync jobs in push
direction to avoid possible confusion.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250318094756.204368-2-c.ebner@proxmox.com
Reviewed-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
Tested-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
Adds a bullet point to the listed datastore tuning parameters,
describing its functionality, implications and typical values.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/pbs-devel/20250404130713.376630-4-c.ebner@proxmox.com
[TL: address trivial merge conflict from context changes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Mostly taken from pve-docs and adapted as needed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Document the gc-atime-cutoff option and describe the behavior it
controls, by adding it as additional bullet point to the
documented datastore tuning options.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Document the gc-atime-safety-check flag and describe the behavior it
controls, by adding it as additional bullet point to the documented
datastore tuning options.
This also fixes the intendation for the cli example how to set the
sync level, to make it clear that still belongs to the previous
bullet point.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
Commit:
efc09f63c (docs: tech overview: avoid 'we' and other small style fixes/additions)
introduced the comparison with 13 lottery games, but sadly without any
mention how to arrive at that number.
When calculating I did arrive at 8-9 games (8 is more probable, 9 is
less probable), so rewrite to 'chance is lower than 8 lottery games' and
give the calculation directly inline as a reference.
Fixes: efc09f63 ("docs: tech overview: avoid 'we' and other small style fixes/additions")
Suggested-by: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
[TL: reference commit that introduced this]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Mention in the docs and the api parameter description the limitations
for archive name labels. They must contain alphanumerics, hyphens and
underscores only to match the regex pattern.
By setting this in the api parameter description, it will be included
in the man page for proxmox-backup-client.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6185
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
The prune schedule simulator returned "X/Y is not an integer" error
for a schedule that uses a `start..end` hour range combined with a
`/`-separated time step-gap, while that works out fine for actual
prune jobs in PBS.
Previously, a schedule like `5..23/3` was mistakenly interpreted as
hour-start = `5`, hour-end = `23/3`, hour-step = `1`, resulting in
above parser error for hour-end. By splitting the right hand side on
`/` to extract the step and normalizing that we correctly get
hour-start = `5`, hour-end = `23`, hour-step = `3`.
Short reminder: hours and minutes part are treated as separate and can
both be declared as range, step or range-step, so `5..23/3:15` does
not mean the step size is 3:15 (i.e. 3.25 hours or 195 minutes) but
rather 3 hours step size and each resulting interval happens on the
15 minute of that hour.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
[TL: add context to commit message partially copied from bug report
and add a short reminder how these intervals work, can be confusing]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Add new markers so that we can refer to the chapters.
Signed-off-by: Laurențiu Leahu-Vlăducu <l.leahu-vladucu@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
Fixes: 5b7f4455 ("docs: add manual page for verification.cfg")
Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
[TL: add references to commit that this fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Have our docgen tool generate a synopsis for the prune.cfg schema, and
use that output in a new prune.cfg manpage, and include it in the
appropriate appendix of our html/pdf rendered admin guide.
Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
[TL: expand commit message and keep alphabetical order for configs in
the guide.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Currently, the list of backups only shows removed backups and is
missing backups that are kept, though they are shown correctly in the
calendar view.
The reason is that a refactor (see Fixes tag) moved the definition of
a custom field renderer referencing `me` to a scope where `me` is not
defined. This causes the renderer to error out for "kept" backups,
which apparently causes the grid to skip the rows altogether (without
any messages in the console).
Fix this by replacing the broken `me` reference.
Fixes: bb044304 ("prune sim: move PruneList to more static declaration")
Signed-off-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@proxmox.com>
Gotify and webhook targets will use the HTTP proxy settings from
node.cfg, the documentation should mention this.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Pass the `-E` option to, quoting it's man-page, "don't use a saved
environment (the structure caching all cross-references, but rebuild
it completely."
As with reusing the environment one gets some empty results for
synopsis stuff depending on build order, for example the synopsis in
the command-syntax appendix HTML output is empty while the same
synopsis used for the dedicated HTML page is complete.
By making the build-log more verbose I caught the attention of some
emitted 'env-purge-doc' events from sphinx; while this itself might be
harmless (I didn't followed the rat tail to its end), it made me a bit
suspicious about caching and wrong/missing invalidation.
With ignoring the environment this is fixed, a diffoscope comparison
shows that not only the command-syntax page, but many others have the
various synposis content added again. There are solely added lines, no
removed nor changed, so it seems fine to enabled that option without
an in-depth sphinx review.
Note, I first suspected the use of a separate "doctree pickles" cache
directory (`-d` option) and is used for all output types besides the
man-pages one, which uses the default .doctree directory.
But changing the man-page target to also use the custom doctree cache
had no effect on the build-result whatsoever (compared with
diffoscope).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
To be in line with the updated permission requirements, as
Datastore.Audit is now required to read and edit sync jobs in push
direction.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
* consistently use "medium" (singular), as only one is needed for
installation (installation-media.rst not renamed)
* add short introduction to recently added chapter "Installation Media"
* update minimum required flash drive storage space to 2 GB
* remove CD-ROM (too little storage space) but keep DVD
* mention explicitly that data get overwritten on installation media /
installation target disks
* mention that using `dd` will require root privileges
* add accidentally cut off text when copying from PVE docs
* add reference labels to currently needed section titles
* reword some paragraphs for completeness and readability
* mention all installation methods in the intro of "Server Installation"
* add the boot order as possible boot issue
* remove recently added redundant product website hyperlinks (as earlier
with commit 34407477e2)
* fix broken heading level of APT-based PBC repo
* slightly reorder sub-chapters of "Installation":
After adding the chapter "Installation Media" (d363818641), the chapter
order under "Installation" is:
1. System Requirements
2. Installation Media
3. Debian Package Repositories
4. Server Installation
5. Client Installation
But repos are more likely to be configured after installation, and for
other installation methods chapter links exist anyway. So to keep the
chapter order more logical, "Debian Package Repositories" is now moved
after "Client Installation".
Signed-off-by: Alexander Zeidler <a.zeidler@proxmox.com>
