On Nov 24, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/24/2014 09:35 AM, Jason A. Kates wrote: >> I have been using pre and post jobs to take care of the LVM snapshots/mounts >> for the backups within Bacula. Would you really need to extend Bacula to >> make this work? > > Yes, for a number of reasons. > > First, and most importantly, there is no standard mechanism for making a > system snapshot, which leaves every administrator to write their own. > Re-inventing the wheel is not an effective use of time, and I've seen a > lot of bad scripts. That's inevitable when they are written and > re-written for each system. I'm working on a standard mechanism for > backup snapshots so we can get past all that. > > Second, the protocol used by the snapshot mechanism is designed to use > an external process whose only job is to make the snapshots and wait for > a file descriptor (stdin) to close before cleaning up. That means that > if the bacula-fd crashes, the snapshots won't be left sitting around > waiting for a post job that will never fire off. > > The snapshot system is modular, and will support a variety of > filesystems in addition to EXT on LVM. btrfs, Gluster, and NetApp NFS > should be committed shortly.
What about ZFS? I do as Jason mentioned: I use pre and post jobs to take snapshots. I’ll be interested in reading the user documentation for this. At present, I have a job which snapshots about 34 filesystems and backs them all up. I’m hoping your interface does similar. — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
