Re: [Bacula-devel] Plugin incremental backups

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew Deason
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:26:33 -0500 Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 24 October 2010 17:37:03 Andrew Deason wrote: > > > Should I take this to mean that if I can guarantee contribution to > > the Bacula project, that you'd be willing to talk more about it? > > Yes. Otherwise we would be spending

Re: [Bacula-devel] Plugin incremental backups

2010-10-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 24 October 2010 17:37:03 Andrew Deason wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:16:52 -0500 > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > OK, your responses were not really adequate for continuing the > > discussion about the plugin. > > Should I take this to mean that if I can guarantee contribution to the > Bacu

Re: [Bacula-devel] Plugin incremental backups

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew Deason
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:16:52 -0500 Kern Sibbald wrote: > OK, your responses were not really adequate for continuing the > discussion about the plugin. Should I take this to mean that if I can guarantee contribution to the Bacula project, that you'd be willing to talk more about it? Or is the Bac

Re: [Bacula-devel] Plugin incremental backups

2010-10-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
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 test

Re: [Bacula-devel] Plugin incremental backups

2010-10-23 Thread Andrew Deason
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:08:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald 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 file

Re: [Bacula-devel] Plugin incremental backups

2010-10-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, 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 funct

[Bacula-devel] Plugin incremental backups

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Deason
Hello, I've recently been looking at developing a bacula FD plugin for something, but I'm a little confused as to how incremental/differential backups are expected to be implemented. >From what I can tell, FD plugins are just given the timestamp of the last backup run we want to get changes from.