Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-12-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/26/2014 11:07 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/26/2014 10:49 AM, Dan Langille wrote: >> What about ZFS? > > There's no reason that shouldn't be supported. I've committed initial support for btrfs, GlusterFS, and zfs (on linux). I still mean to write NetApp NFS support, but if you're int

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/27/2014 03:08 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > The README sounds promising. I was looking for the code & failed. Perhaps I > should try from my workstation, not my phone. There's a "src" folder at the top of the file list when you're browsing. It's easy to miss. I did, too. > With regards to s

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-27 Thread Dan Langille
> On Nov 26, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> On 11/26/2014 10:49 AM, Dan Langille wrote: >> What about ZFS? > > There's no reason that shouldn't be supported. > >> I’ll be interested in reading the user documentation for this. > > Have a look: > https://bitbucket.org/gordonmessmer

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Ulrich, In progress means that Bacula Systems is working on this as a new feature. Bacula Systems gives a huge part of what it writes to the community once it is written and has guaranteed to the FSFE that it will give everything it writes within 5 years. As this is a feature in developmen

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-27 Thread Ulrich Leodolter
Hello, On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 08:30 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > There are a number of conditions you need to fulfill for adding code to > Bacula or more precisely the Bacula project. First, it is good to > review the design with the developers particularly because in the case > of thi

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Gordon, Yes, sorry about that. Independent of your email, I just noticed that it was broken. The web site is now fixed, but for your reference, the correct download URL is: http://www.bacula.org/downloads/FLA-bacula.en.pdf Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards, Kern On 11/26

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/26/2014 10:49 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > What about ZFS? There's no reason that shouldn't be supported. > I’ll be interested in reading the user documentation for this. Have a look: https://bitbucket.org/gordonmessmer/dragonsdawn-snapshot Supporting a new type of filesystem requires a shel

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-26 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 24, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Gordon Messmer 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

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/25/2014 03:54 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > I'll have a look at the FLA, and work on using a keyword or keywords > that don't refer to VSS. I'm not able to find the FLA. All of the links I've found ultimately point to http://www.bacula.org/en/FLA-bacula.en.pdf, which doesn't exist

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/24/2014 11:30 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > First, it is good to > review the design with the developers particularly because in the case > of this project, it is already in progress. I'm not sure I understand that point. Specifically what is in progress? > Adding a new keyword such as "snapsh

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, There are a number of conditions you need to fulfill for adding code to Bacula or more precisely the Bacula project. First, it is good to review the design with the developers particularly because in the case of this project, it is already in progress. Part of the review is to ensure that

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-24 Thread Jason A. Kates
Gordon, 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? -Jason > On Nov 24, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > I'd like to add support for snapshots on Linux (an

Re: [Bacula-devel] Linux snapshot support

2014-11-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
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 stan