Hello, OK, your responses were not really adequate for continuing the discussion about the plugin.
However, you might like to know that the Bacula Enterprise edition already has the code necessary to handle AFS, which apparently you claim is not possible. However, the code has never been tested on a AFS file system, so it is likely to need a bit of tuning or tweaking to get it completely correct. Best regards, Kern On Saturday 23 October 2010 22:49:15 Andrew Deason wrote: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:08:14 +0200 > > Kern Sibbald <[email protected]> wrote: > > Virtually all backup programs base the decision to backup a file or > > not on the time stamp. Some programs, including Bacula, do have other > > means of finding if a new file has been added into the backup tree > > with a old date, or that files have been removed from the backup tree. > > This functionality is available within the Bacula FD, but I am not > > sure of the details of all the details for dealing with it in a > > plugin, though I know that is possible. > > Ah, so the base bacula FD deals with this case? Is this only handled by > certain settings (like 'Accurate' backups), or does it always recognize > that? > > > That said, unless you can find another developer, most of us are very > > busy (too busy), and before we spend any time answering your > > questions, I have several for you: > > Yeah, I recognize that, and I don't expect other people to do all of the > work, here. I can find this out myself, but I wasn't sure if doing this > at all is possible in the current bacula architecure. If you're saying > it is, and backing up regular files with Bacula already accounts for > this, that's all I'm really looking for, here. I'm asking "is this > possible within bacula?", not "how do I do this?" > > Or, if you're telling me that this isn't a problem in practice and most > people don't actually care, that would also answer my question. > > > 1. From the larger picture, what is the purpose of your plugin. > > Backing up/restoring data stored in AFS (a distributed network > filesystem). While it is technically possible to back up such data as > normal files in bacula as-is, there are a variety of problems in doing > so I don't enumerate here, unless you want me to. > > > 2. Will the resulting code be licensed with the GPL? > > GPL-compatible, yes. (It needs to be in order to distribute, doesn't > it?) > > > 3. Will you make the code available to the Bacula project? > > I don't know. I would hope it would be, since honestly I think doing so > makes less work for me, but this is out of my control. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
