> So you have a web portal where a Help Desk Tech can take a user request for a file to be restored back to a vm, open a web portal search for the indivual file then either download that file and email it to the user, or restore it back to the VM, or restore it to a completely different VM depending on the use case???
There's a web portal that can be used for that, both inside PVE and PBS.
Download to inside a VM is possible.
It surely isn't as integrated/polished, but that it's just not possible is far from true either.
We're polishing release for release, most of those things are not complicated, but need a bit of time.
> Sure you can do it that why, but veeam has support for this in their product, in the UI that is already part of my work flow, this is what I consider a "OS Level or Storage level hack" it is not really part of Proxmox, but part of the underlying linux OS or Storage solution.
Yeah, replication is built-in to Proxmox VE's UI/workflow/API whatever too...
> Veeam use ReFS or XFS to only store one version of a block no matter how many backups are taken, this is done in the veeam software and works with their VBK file format. ZFS has some dedup which is what proxmox relies on but it works differently than Veeam, and seems to be less effective. These Block Cloning also works with the Data Format uploaded to S3 to massively save on storage costs.
Yeah no, that's complete BS, we nowhere rely on ZFS dedup at any point, that would be completely useless for PBS...
We have our own content addressable storage, as, again, already mentioned, and thus refer to every block only once, no matter how many backups taken.
> Have you ever used Veeam? I have been using Veeam since version 9.5, and hold a VMCE certification.
Yeah, but I hold no certification and left basically all proprietary EEE/blackmail software for good since years, thus luckily do not even need to start think about such "migrate or get squeezed big time" situations for any infra of mine.
But sure, use Veeam, that's totally fine, and it is very well integrated quality software, but for a lot of setups PBS is way more than enough to cover their use cases.
And this thread actually started of with Proxmox VE, so just tell Veeam you want to use their software for PVE, I'm to close to this so cannot say anything, but they surely got wind of those changes coming to VMWare and surely hedge against the doom Broadcom will bring, what do you think they'd do? ;-)
Anyhow, I wish you all the best in your future migrations and hope you find a solution that fits your needs and workflows without being held hostage by your core infra provider.