[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks a lot Dan. I have one more question: > > What is the underlying technology (using dump, tar etc.) used while > creating backup set. Is it any standard available or bacula has > developed its own logic. Any reference on this will help.
It is not dump or tar. The details are here: http://www.bacula.org/en/developers/Storage_Media_Output_Format.html > > Thanks again for your prompt response. > > Warm regards, > > Sandip Mandal. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Langille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:10 PM > To: Sandip Mandal (WT01 - Computing, Storage & Software Products) > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Clarifications on Bacula: Trying to > integrate with running data center > > [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 - http://www.langille.org/ 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
