Hi, 14.11.2008 19:08, Hemant Shah wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 11/14/08, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Missing nfs share blocks job [fd: 2.2.8] >> To: "Hemant Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: "Ronald Buder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 6:04 AM >> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Hemant Shah wrote: >> >>>> If at all possible, run a client on the NFS >> server to backup those >>>> filesystems directly. >>> It not possible to run bacula on deicated NAS server >> (e.g. NetApp >>> Filer), so you have to back it up ove NFS mounts. >> Some NAS servers are embedded windows or BSD/Linux devices >> and can have >> bacula installed on them... >> >> But you're right and this isn't exactly ideal. > > Many NAS servers support NDMP, are there any plans to add support for NDMP in > bacula?
This has been discussed some time ago. At that time, Kern more or less decided that NDMP could not be supported by Bacula. Currently, I'm writing a short description of how NDMP can be used by Bacula (sort of limited, but probably usable in many cases). It seems to be possible to enable Bacula to store NDMP-created dumps of SAN devices, and to push them back to an NDMP-capable device (probably only the same family, but that's how NDMP works as far as I know). There will probably be no support for anything but full backups, though, and Bacula will know nothing of the actual contents of the NDMP-created BLOB (again, this is because NDMP doesn't provide that feature). Assuming I understood the internals of NDMP well enough, I can express my ideas clearly, and the Bacula developers believe they could implement the technical aspects of it, NDMP could become a plugin to the FD on day - provided someone actually develops it :-) Obviously, if someone or some company wants this bad enough to support developing it that would ensure faster progress. At this stage, though, I don't think there's much to discuss. Once I've got my ideas in a usable form, and have discussed them with a number of people, I will present them here and in -devel - hopefully by end of November. Arno > > Hemant Shah > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
