I’ve released a new version of virtnbdbackup. The new version adds a small plugin system layer that allows users to extend the backup targets by creating plugins.

Past feature requests asked for backup to S3 or adding encryption features, which i dont need and do not want to maintain within the project scope. Users can now extend the utility with plugins.

In the course of implementing this, i had the idea: why not create a plugin thats capable of streaming the backups to a proxmox backup server?

This resulted in pypbs, a small python binding for libproxmox-backup-qemu0 that allows to store fixed index images on PBS using python.

A first POC implementation of the plugin worked quite well, even tho i don’t know if its worth releasing. A better approach would be to use PBS dynamic index format, but then i might just add a small plugin that wraps the proxmox-backup-client CLI for doing this..