Hello Dieogo, Am 24.08.2017 um 13:30 schrieb Diogo Vieira: > Hello, > > Is it possible to backup a client using BareOS to a WORM (that is a Write > Once Read Many) device? I > tried and it seems to work but I would like to know if it's supported or it > just happened to work.
Yes, it is supported. > I tried to lookup the documentation and found the File and FIFO Device Types > which could fit this > use case but it depends on the implementation (I couldn't find info on how > backups are archived > using File Device Types and if I understood correctly I would have to write > my own handler to read > the backups from the FIFO Device Type). You do not need to do anything witht the FIFO device type. > > My main concern is that BareOS needs to update some file (be it a backup > archive or internal > index/metadata I may not be aware of) which in this device can't be deleted > nor modified (including > having data appended). Data once written is not altered anymore, so theere is no problem with WORM devices. > > Thank you in advance, > > -- > Diogo Vieira <d...@eurotux.com> > Software Engineer > Eurotux Informática, S.A. | www.eurotux.com > Best regards, Philipp -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Philipp Storz philipp.st...@bareos.com Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221 63 06 93-92 http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49 221 63 06 93-10 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Geschäftsführer: Stephan Dühr, M. Außendorf, J. Steffens, P. Storz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bareos-users@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
