* Dan Langille schrieb am 26.04.07 um 14:02 Uhr: Content-Description: Mail message body > Folks, > > I need help please. I'm rather busy for the next few weeks and > cannot answer these questions. They are from a journalist writing > about Bacula. > > If you could fill in what you know, and someone else can fill in the > rest. Thank you.
Here are some answers. (In brackets if I am not 100% sure) > > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > Date sent: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:53:57 +0200 > From: Joachim Clemens > To: press > Subject: Questions about Bacula > > Dear Dan Langille, > > I am doing a research for the german Linux Technical Review, a sister > publication of the Linux-Magazine, about commercial and open-source > Backup- and Storage-Solutions. > > In spite of my extensive online research about "Bacula 2.0.3", the > following open questions remain: > > > - is the NDMP protocol supported? no. > > - are LAN-free and/or Serverless backups possible? (yes AFAICT, if all 3 deamons run on the same machine) > > - does Bacula support centralized management and is it possible to > use storge devices attached to another server than the one with > Bacula installed? Yes and yes. You can run the "Storage Daemon" on a foreign machine which will then accept data over the wire to store it on the backup media. > > - can the bandwidth be limited, that is used by the backup process? (no) > > - is it possible to use the built-in snapshot functionality of hard > or software for automated backups? AFAIK: bacula has no built-in snapshot functionality but you can combine it with system snapshot capabilities (VSS onw indows, LVM snapshots on unix systems) > > - does your software supports the creation of user groups with > specific privileges? (maybe with console ACLs) > > - are multiple data streams to the backup medium supported > (multiflow, multiplexing)? yes > > - are Virtual Tape Libraries supported? yes > > - is there a disaster recovery function for the Bacula server for > other operation systems than Linux available? (its based on linux, but you can restore any system (AFAIKT)) > > - are there modules to back up specific applications like databases > without shutting them down? > > - is it possible to clone backup media? > > - is disk-to-disk-to-tape supported? > > > I would appriciate if you could help me answering the open questions > to describe your product as detailed as possible. > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Yours faithfully, > Joachim Clemens > > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- hth -marc -- **************************************************** * (morganj): 0 is false and 1 is true, correct? * * (alec_eso): 1, morganj * * (morganj): bastard. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
