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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula in the cloud

2017-03-19 22:37:57
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula in the cloud
From: Daniele Palumbo <daniele AT retaggio DOT net>
To: Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 03:18:23 +0100
Hi Kern,

News about it?

Thanks,
Daniele

> Il giorno 18 ott 2016, alle ore 14:13, Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com> 
> ha scritto:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Bacula Systems has a White Paper on Bacula Enterprise Edition in the
> cloud, and they have given me permission to publish it. However, as it
> is currently written for Bacula Enterprise customers it needs some
> modification, which I will make over the next week or so then release it.
> 
> It discusses a number of different ways that Bacula can work with the
> cloud, so you all might find it very interesting.  Obviously one of the
> current limitations for most people (like me) who do not have a big
> budget for high-speed fiber optic Internet connections is the upload
> speed.  I have spent a lot of time thinking about this, and I think
> there are a number of very interesting solutions that will become
> available in the near future.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kern
> 
> On 10/18/2016 01:45 PM, Josh Fisher wrote:
>> On 10/18/2016 3:42 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
>>> Hello Jason,
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 09:37:12PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote:
>>>> Hello guys:
>>>> 
>>>> Based on your experience, what alternative do we have for backing up
>>>> information to the cloud preferably using Bacula?
>>>> 
>>> I wrote a script a while ago that runs as a RunAfterJob element which
>>> encrypts (gpg) and copies a full backup of a client (or its disk
>>> volume rather) to an S3 bucket using the aws shell client.
>>> 
>>> It's still very rudimentary but it does the job nicely when it comes
>>> to keeping a full backup safe (and secure) from a local disaster.
>>> 
>>> I seem to recall "cloud support" (whatever that may mean in today's
>>> buzzword bingo) was announced for Bacula 8.
>> I tend to think that will be targeting local cloud storage, for example
>> ownCloud, in enterprise environments. I'm not sure something like S3 is
>> very useful for direct backup storage over the Internet. A 1 TB backup
>> over a 100 Mbps connection would take a minimum of 22+ hours, assuming
>> maximum throughput and that S3 could actually sustain 12.5 MB/s.
>> 
>> For S3, copying via a script seems the best way to go.
>> 
>>> All the best,
>>> 
>>> Uwe
>>> 
>> 
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