VaultSync Plugin Ecosystem

DEC VaultSync — Source & Target Plugins

VaultSync is built around a simple idea: any source, any target, any direction. That only works because every device, storage platform, and cloud provider is a plugin. Source plugins read data safely (consistent snapshots, change-tracking, zero-copy where available). Target plugins write data durably (encryption, immutability, integrity verification). Mix and match to compose backup, restore, cross-platform migration, bidirectional sync, and HA state-sync.

Source plugins — the things you protect

What VaultSync reads from. Each source plugin handles consistency, change-tracking, and permission scoping appropriate to that platform.

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Mobile devices

iPhone, iPad, Android

Encrypted per-device backup: photos, contacts, messages, app-data where permitted by the OS. Consent-based, end-to-end encrypted, with per-device restore that works across OS versions.

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Workstations

Windows, Linux, macOS

Agent-based snapshot capture (VSS on Windows, LVM / ZFS / Btrfs on Linux, APFS on macOS). Full-disk images for P2V restore or file-level selective restore.

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Home / SMB NAS

Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS

Read-side integration with each NAS's native snapshot APIs. Incremental-forever snapshots, dataset-level scoping, and BTRFS / ZFS send-stream efficiency where the NAS supports it.

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Enterprise SAN

Pure, NetApp, Dell EMC

iSCSI / FC / NVMe-oF initiators + native snapshot-API integration per vendor. Off-host backup via snapshot-mount so production I/O is untouched during capture.

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Hypervisor VMs

Via IVMIA platform plugins

libvirt/KVM, Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Incus — VaultSync consumes workload snapshots from IVMIA, so the same set of hypervisors that orchestrate workloads also back them up, without a second agent.

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Container volumes

Docker, Podman, Kubernetes PVCs

Volume snapshot + consistency-hook integration. For Kubernetes, coordinates with CSI snapshot providers so stateful workloads (databases, message queues) capture quiesced.

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Network device configs

Via NIVMIA vendor plugins

Every network device NIVMIA manages becomes a backup source. Versioned, signed, and restorable configurations for switches, routers, firewalls, and SD-WAN edges — through the same vendor plugins.

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Databases

Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, MSSQL

Quiesced-snapshot or native-dump plugins depending on engine. Point-in-time restore coordination for Postgres WAL, MySQL binlog, and MSSQL transaction logs.

Target plugins — where it lands

Where VaultSync writes. Every target supports encryption-at-rest, integrity verification, and immutability / WORM where the target itself does.

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Azure Blob Storage

Hot / cool / archive tiers

Native Blob SDK integration, tier-aware placement, immutability policies (legal-hold and time-based). Multi-region replication awareness for DR.

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Oracle Cloud Object Storage (OCI)

Standard + Archive tiers

First-class OCI integration with retention-rule and legal-hold policies. Paired with IVMIA's OCI plugin when full cross-cloud orchestration is required.

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S3-compatible object storage

AWS S3, MinIO, Ceph RGW, Wasabi, Backblaze B2

Generic S3 target covering every S3-API-compatible endpoint. Object-lock support where the target offers it, lifecycle-policy coordination, multi-endpoint resiliency.

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Proxmox Backup Server

PBS-native target

Content-addressed dedupe, encrypted at rest, verified restore. First-class target for Proxmox-heavy estates and mixed environments that want PBS's dedupe efficiency.

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Local disk / NAS share

NFS, SMB, iSCSI, local block

Direct-attached or networked filesystem targets. Encryption-at-rest and integrity-checking handled by VaultSync so the underlying storage does not need to be trusted.

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Tape

LTO-8, LTO-9 libraries

Library and drive orchestration, barcode-aware placement, immutable long-retention vaulting for regulated workloads and ransomware-survivable air-gap copies.

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Another VaultSync

Vault-to-vault replication

Target a remote VaultSync appliance directly — encrypted, resumable, bandwidth-throttled. The primary pattern for DR-site replication and for federated multi-site deployments.

Composition: what source + target combinations make possible

The value of the plugin model is that every source can write to every target. Here are the common compositions.

Backup

Any source → any durable target. Scheduled, encrypted, integrity-verified. Automated restore-testing on cadence.

Cross-platform restore

VMware snapshot → Proxmox target; Hyper-V snapshot → libvirt target. Restore a workload to a completely different hypervisor in one operation.

Bidirectional sync

Two sources, treated as peers. Heterogeneous storage staying in step — NAS to cloud, SAN to NAS, site A to site B.

HA state-sync orchestration

Active source, standby target, continuous replication. VaultSync coordinates the state-sync leg of an assisted-HA topology.

Air-gap / immutability

Tape or object-locked cloud target. Ransomware-survivable copy that the production side cannot modify or delete.

Device retirement

Workstation or mobile source → archive target. Verified off-ramp when a user leaves or a device is replaced, with encrypted long-retention hold.

Plugin architecture

Every source plugin implements capture, verify, stream. Every target plugin implements receive, verify, finalize. Every plugin is signed, versioned, and hot-loadable — so new backends arrive without replacing the appliance. Cross-product coordination (IVMIA workloads, NIVMIA device configs) happens through the plugin manifest, not a side channel.

Your backup plan is only as good as the things it can read and write.

VaultSync's plugin model is how we keep the promise: any source, any target, any direction, no surprises on restore day.

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