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 >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
