[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > > We are considering Bacula for using in data-center production > environment for backup/recovery purpose. I need some clarifications > which I couldn’t find any answer in any of the document provided. Here > is the list: > > > > 1. Data format used for backed up files i.e. what is the format of > backup set. Is there any standard available?
The format is defined here: http://www.bacula.org/en/developers/Storage_Media_Output_Format.html > 2. Is the product supports SLA accountability? > 3. How flexible is the product to add SLA accountability into itself? > 4. If not available, how easy to integrate Billing, Provisioning etc > software’s with the product? There is no provision for anything like that. To answer your question, depends upon what you define SLA accountability to be. > 5. What maximum support it can provide in terms of data storage, clients? I don't think anyone knows the limit. It greatly depends upon your bandwidth, hardware, and back media. There are reports of thousands of clients and many TB of data. > 6. Is it CDP type solution? I'm assuming CDP means "Continuous data protection" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_data_protection No, it does not. T > Online or Offline data protection? I think it must be considered offline. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
