Hi, pon., 13 kwi 2026 o 14:41 Heitor Faria <[email protected]> napisał(a):
> Hello All, > > I just developed a Bacula SFTP/SSH plugin. Send me a DM if you're > interested. > Great work! > ------------------------------ > > *Agentless SFTP/SSH backup for Bacula Community Edition — zero deployment > on remote hosts* > > Back up files from any server, NAS, switch, router, or cloud service > accessible via SFTP/SSH. > No Bacula agent required on the remote side. > ------------------------------ > > *Why SFTP instead of mountpoints* > > • No stale mounts — each backup opens a fresh connection > • No kernel dependencies — runs fully in userspace (Paramiko) > • No credentials in /etc/fstab — stored securely in Bacula config > • No full filesystem exposure — access limited to defined paths > • Simple firewalling — single TCP port (22) > • No hanging processes — per-operation timeouts > • Works with network devices — switches, routers, firewalls > • Native for cloud SFTP — no mount layer needed > ------------------------------ > > *Features* > > • Agentless — SFTP/SSH only, nothing installed on remote hosts > • Full / Incremental / Differential backups via mtime > • Include/Exclude filters — glob patterns (*.pdf, *.tmp) > • Metadata preserved — permissions, UID/GID, timestamps, symlinks > • Authentication — SSH key (Ed25519, RSA, ECDSA), agent, or password > • Host key verification — MITM protection via known_hosts > • File listing — estimate, catalog queries, restore tree browsing > • Multiple sources — multiple SFTP endpoints in a single FileSet > • Compression & encryption — LZ4/GZIP + AES (native Bacula) > • Metaplugin architecture — aligned with Bacula ecosystem > Yes, it was my first question when I saw Paramiko above - "I wonder if he used metaplugin for this integration". :D best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski [email protected]
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