Hello Phil, >>> (a) trying to figure out how to get a Bacula sd and fd installed on it >> >> The happiest days of my life were after I got dedicated equipment for home >> network modem, routing, and wireless mesh accessing points. >> That said, I never understood this very common user fetish of installing >> Bacula >> components in the NAS. OK: you avoid one more network node but the hardware >> is >> not designed to handle the extra workload. > > > Because when the backup scheme is disk to disk to removable disk, the > transfer rate going directly across the backplane is much higher than I > can get across a gigabit network. > > Also, I don't want to burn the power to run another node that > functionally does nothing but run a storage daemon. > > Extra workload on the NAS isn't an issue. It has 32GB RAM and eight > Xeon D-1622 cores.
But then, even you you manage to build the SD you will probably be stuck with the same Bacula version forever. I guess you haven't disclosed this specific NAS model, but you might consider using a VM in the QuTS Hero "Virtual Machine Sation" solution. Ref.: <https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-h886> Then the OS is not a problem anymore. > -- > Phil Stracchino > Babylon Communications > ph...@caerllewys.net > p...@co.ordinate.org > Landline: +1.603.293.8485 > Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 Rgds. -- MSc Heitor Faria (Miami/USA) Bacula LATAM CIO mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ] _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
