On Saturday 01 September 2007 18:17, Bastian Friedrich wrote: > Hi, > > during the past, we have used afbackup as for backups in the company I > work for. This software is a "little" aged nowadays, and we have been > looking for alternatives; obviously, there's only one: Bacula. > > Thx a lot for your work and effort that you have been putting into this > project. > > Unfortunately, Bacula currently lacks the possibilty to backup and > restore program output/input such as reflected by the current item 12 > on the project list (former item 16) as well as Kern's todo on FIFOs. > This feature is crucial for our needs: Backing up process output > instead of files. > > The description in "kernstodo" is not unlike the behavior in afbackup. > > There, you can configure "Files" like this: > ||| cmd1 ||| cmd2 ### comment > > with cmd1 and cmd2 being commands that export/import data to > backup/restore processes via stdout/stdin. While the syntax is a litle > crude, it is helpful to provide two commands for the backup/restore > processes; additionally, it can easily be used for client side file > lists (\@, \<, \|). > > Do you know of anyone working on this item 12? According to Kern's todo > list, it's rather low prio for him :( Is there anything I can do to > help in that process?
The big problems are that this project is currently rather ill defined, and it is rather low in user priority. It suffers from some of the same problems that plugins face -- that is how to make the Volume self contained after adding this kind of feature. The Volume format currently is totally self contained in that a restore requires only the FD -- it doesn't even need a current definition of a FileSet to work. So, to get a feature like this implemented requires two missing elements: 1. Some important design decisions that permit the Volume to remain self contained and independent of FileSet definitions. 2. A programmer. Best regards, Kern > > Thx, > Bastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
