No responses? 2011/8/24, Allan Garcia <allan.gar...@gmail.com>: > Hello all, > > I'm new on this list, so a little brief... my name is Allan Garcia, I live > in Brazil, I'm not an experienced C developer, but I already make many C > programs for scientific purposes in my Bachelors and after that Masters and > PhD, but none of these were large programs. Now, my mainly occupation is > academic professor of the Federal Government of Brazil, so I have some > spare > time. > > I'm telling that 'cause I have the intention to develop the Item 20 of the > projects list. This feature are essential to my backup plans and there're > no > other tool to make backup such Bacula (FOSS) that implements this feature. > > I'm not sure that I'll accomplish with success this endeavor, like I told, > I'm not a very experienced C developer. > > So, I like to begin a thread about this feature, collect ideas, tips, or > any > comment that helps, mainly from Kern and Eric and other core developers. > > I notice that the Migration/Copy are commanded in dird/migrate.c and > accomplished in stored/mac.c, especially in mac.c the "copy" between > volumes > are made inner the same *sd*, and from this becomes the limitation. > > I imagine that the initial approach could make a detection if the > destination *sd* are the same *sd* and if are the migration are done in the > actual way. > > If the *sd* are different we have to open a socked to destination *sd* and > ask him to call the "record" function. > > MY INITIAL BRAINSTORM > > 1. the dird have to contact the origin *sd* and command the migration (like > it's done now) > 2. the origin *sd* detects if the destination *sd* it's himself or the > other > *sd* > 3. if the origin *sd* detects other destination, it respond informing that > to the dird > 4. the dird have to handle the origin *sd* response informing the > destination *sd* > 5. the dird commands the destination *sd* to wait the origin *sd* > connection > 6. the dird commands waits the destination *sd* to confirm > 7. the dird commands origin *sd* to send data to destination *sd* > 8. when it's done the job are marked as sucess, otherwise fail. > > Waiting for any comments... > > -- > Allan Garcia > allan.gar...@gmail.com >
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