Hi,

14.11.2008 19:08, Hemant Shah wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 11/14/08, Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk> wrote:
> 
>> From: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Missing nfs share blocks job [fd: 2.2.8]
>> To: "Hemant Shah" <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com>
>> Cc: "Ronald Buder" <rbuder AT proficom-ag DOT de>, bacula-users AT 
>> lists.sourceforge DOT 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


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> Hemant Shah
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