On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: > I'm a developer in Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com) project. Is anyone > using Amanda and Backuppc together?
I've always thought that Bacula was a better fit to be integrated (how tightly or loosely is debatable) with BackupPC. Looking at this has been on my agenda for a long time; it's just been back-burnered due to more pressing needs. > I'm interested in integrating Backuppc with Amanda. Amanda will be > the media manager (support for tapes and other media) consolidator of data > from a group of BackupPC clients. Amanda's application api > (http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API) can be used for > integration. > Lots of details have to be worked out. > > If anyone is interested in developing such a solution, please send me an email > (paddy at zmanda dot com). Any suggestions on what features would be > useful in a integrated solution? There's nothing to stop an admin from backing up dumps from the pc/$hostname directory now with Amanda, Bacula, or many other products. One product doesn't have to know anything about the other--but that's not an integrated solution. I'll also assume that you are not suggesting to backup the pool or cpool, but rather the individual hosts' dumps... Any tape backup application would have to not only dump and restore the files, but (assuming you'd be backing up hosts' dumps) understand enough about BackupPC to link them into the (c)pool and re-add the info about the original backup to the "backups" file (so it is available via the BackupPC CGI). Linking into the (c)pool is almost mandatory if you're going to support restoring multiple hosts. It would probably also be necessary to persuade BackupPC not to delete the newly-restored backup during it's nightly tasks. I think the ability to lock a dump so that it's only removable by positive admin action has been discussed, but is not currently implemented. I'm sure there are other issues that would be encountered, but as I said, I've not given it more than cursory thought yet. > Thanks, > Paddy Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Joyce Systems Administrator P A N I C Physics & Astronomy Department Physics & Astronomy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network Infrastructure voice: (919) 962-7214 and Computing fax: (919) 962-0480 http://www.panic.unc.edu Don't judge a book by its movie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
