Hi,

I also have a qnap nas for storing backups. I simply mount a nfs directory
of the nas in the director, and launch backups against that mountpoint.
It's the simplest way, and works flawlessly. No need to compile and/or
install anything on the nas.

Regards

El lun., 15 oct. 2018 22:32, Chris Wilkinson <winstonia...@gmail.com>
escribió:

> I use CIFS to mount 2 dissimilar NAS's on the DIR/FD/SD host. One is the
> source, the other is the backup destination. It works just fine. I didn't
> attempt to put the FD or SD on them natively since they are locked down
> OS's.
>
> I took the precaution of mounting the source read only.
>
> I suppose NFS would work too but since I had CIFS mounts for other reasons
> it seemed sensible to use that.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris Wilkinson
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, 8:18 p.m. Welington R. Braga, <welrbr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Andrea and others,
>>
>> I'm just a beginner in Bacula but I'm talking as who manager 4 QNAP NAS
>> (1x TS-859U+, 3x TS-459U+) and others 2 similar storage like these in the
>> last 6 years. So, if you let me give a humble opinion, configure only a NFS
>> access and share this in your director/storage daemon and disable all the
>> services and apps you will not use.
>>
>> The reasons are:
>> 1st - It is the most simple protocol to configure and use in Linux
>> Machine;
>> 2nd - ISCSI is a most but, in this storage, when you create a LUN in fact
>> it creates some big files mounted as loop devices, so, any problem in your
>> machine means double problem to restore data, reduced performance of the
>> box (compared with NFS it the same machine) and after some days (maybe
>> months) of use this files will increase till the limit of storage and you
>> start to receive alerts of disk-full
>> 4th - As said, you have to maintain the same version of SD and DIR.
>> Compile or look for packages for Linux is easier than to a proprietary NAS.
>>
>> Of course, it is based in my experience with these machines, and can not
>> reflect the reality of your case.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Em sex, 12 de out de 2018 às 09:52, Andrea Venturoli <m...@netfence.it>
>> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I know this question (more or less) came up several times in the past,
>>> but possibly things have changed a lot.
>>>
>>> Is there any way I could install bacula storage daemon on the NAS in
>>> subject?
>>> There seems to be no QPKG available.
>>> IPKG apparently disappeared.
>>> I tried compiling it directly on the NAS, but there's no tools.
>>> Is cross compiling the only way? Any tutorial then?
>>>
>>> Of course I could use NFS, but I'd *REALLY* like to avoid it.
>>>
>>>   bye & Thanks
>>>         av.
>>>
>>>
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