Thanks a lot Dan. I have one more question: What is the underlying technology (using dump, tar etc.) used while creating backup set. Is it any available standard or bacula has developed its own logic. Any reference on this will help.
Thanks again for your prompt response. Warm regards, Sandip Mandal. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Langille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:10 PM To: Sandip Mandal (WT01 - Computing, Storage & Software Products) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Clarifications on Bacula: Trying to integrate with running data center [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > > We are considering Bacula for using in data-center production > environment for backup/recovery purpose. I need some clarifications > which I couldn't find any answer in any of the document provided. Here > is the list: > > > > 1. Data format used for backed up files i.e. what is the format of > backup set. Is there any standard available? The format is defined here: http://www.bacula.org/en/developers/Storage_Media_Output_Format.html > 2. Is the product supports SLA accountability? > 3. How flexible is the product to add SLA accountability into itself? > 4. If not available, how easy to integrate Billing, Provisioning etc > software's with the product? There is no provision for anything like that. To answer your question, depends upon what you define SLA accountability to be. > 5. What maximum support it can provide in terms of data storage, clients? I don't think anyone knows the limit. It greatly depends upon your bandwidth, hardware, and back media. There are reports of thousands of clients and many TB of data. > 6. Is it CDP type solution? I'm assuming CDP means "Continuous data protection" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_data_protection No, it does not. T > Online or Offline data protection? I think it must be considered offline. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
