What progress was made on your grant this month?
Middleware Completion and Advanced Sia Integration
Finalized and deployed a modular middleware framework, now optimized to handle Sia integrations efficiently while being extensible for future storage backends.
Integrated advanced caching mechanisms to minimize redundant API calls, improving data handling efficiency and system responsiveness.
Conducted stress testing, demonstrating the middleware’s ability to handle 10x the data throughput compared to initial benchmarks.
Expanded Cloud Backup API Capabilities
Implemented asynchronous data processing, improving scalability for handling large datasets and enhancing backup and restore operations.
Integrated real-time analytics, providing detailed metrics on backup job performance, error rates, and overall system health.
Introduced role-based access control mechanisms for API endpoints, ensuring granular permissions and secure interactions.
Sia API Enhancements and Optimization
Added advanced Sia API functionalities, such as file redundancy checks and bandwidth monitoring, for more reliable and efficient cloud backup operations.
Developed fallback mechanisms to ensure seamless functionality despite network constraints like node unavailability or bandwidth limitations.
Security and Compliance Advancements
Enhanced encryption mechanisms for data at rest and in transit, ensuring compliance with GDPR and other international standards.
Introduced token-based authentication for all API interactions, replacing older session-based systems for improved security.
Conducted penetration testing to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, strengthening the backup restore pipeline.
Implemented comprehensive audit logging for all critical operations, ensuring traceability and compliance.
User Interface (UI) Improvements
Enhanced the Proxmox Backup Server plugin UI with real-time backup status indicators, progress bars for backup/restore tasks, and improved error notifications.
Designed and integrated a dashboard for monitoring Sia storage usage, providing real-time capacity metrics, cost estimations, and backup dependency visualizations.
Initiated multi-language localization support, improving accessibility for a broader user base.
Testing, Documentation, and Repository Updates
Conducted long-term stability testing, ensuring robust performance in real-world scenarios with large datasets.
Finalized pre-release documentation, including deployment guides, configuration tutorials, and middleware architecture diagrams.
Refactored codebase and automated static analysis tools within the CI/CD pipeline to improve code quality and streamline version control.
Phase 8: Beta testing and bug cleanup:
Middleware Scalability
Challenge: The middleware faced delays under high loads due to inadequate request handling.
Resolution: Implemented asynchronous request processing and dynamic load balancing to ensure consistent performance under heavy data throughput.
Sia Network Constraints
Challenge: Node unavailability and bandwidth limitations impacted decentralized storage performance.
Resolution: Developed robust fallback mechanisms and optimized Sia API interactions for redundancy and reliability.
UI Synchronization Issues
Challenge: Real-time status updates and dependency visualizations caused inconsistencies in the user interface.
Resolution: Integrated advanced caching and synchronous update mechanisms to maintain data consistency across the UI.
What was done in the code:
src/middleware/siaIntegrationMiddleware.rs: Maintenance mode adaptation and improved error-handling logic.
Cloud Backup API Enhancements
Updated API types to standardize interactions and improve compatibility across modules.
Made significant updates to the cloud backup API, optimizing data handling and request/response cycles.
Enhanced access control functionalities with updates to the acl.rs file, introducing more granular permissions.
Files Updated:
pbs/src/api2/cloud/backup.rs: Cloud backup API updates to improve efficiency and scalability.
File Modified:
pbs-api-types/src/acl.rs: Access control updates for better security and role-based permissions.
pbs-api-types/src/libs.rs: Basic API types used by most of the cloud backup code.
pbs-api-types/src/matintenance.rs: Checks the current maintenance mode against an attempted operation.
pbs-api-types/src/network.rs: Configuration is done manually using other tools and network interface type.
Links to repos worked on this month:
Merged branch ‘develop’ of https://github.com/AZComputerSolutions/PBSCloudBackupModule
What will you be working on this month?
Release Candidate Preparation:
Final Testing and Stable Release
Conduct final beta testing and resolve any remaining bugs or performance bottlenecks. Prepare for the stable release of the Proxmox Backup Server Cloud Backup Plugin with full Sia integration. Enhanced Documentation and Community Collaboration and Publish comprehensive user and developer documentation, including setup guides and troubleshooting resources. Release the plugin on GitHub and collaborate with the open-source community to gather feedback for future improvements.
Long-Term Maintenance and Scalability
Plan for the integration of additional storage backends and further middleware scalability. Initiate discussions for partnerships with other decentralized storage solutions to expand functionality.
UI/UX Enhancements
Finalize multi-language localization and add contextual help features to improve user experience. Continue refining the user interface, including advanced visualization tools for backup job dependencies and performance metrics.
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.
As always, the full version of this document is available at https://www.pbscloudbackup.com/docs/sia/sia-foundation-monthly-report-dec-2024/
