Gavin McCullagh a écrit : > Hi, > > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Kern Sibbald wrote: > >> I suspect that all that is already possible with Bacula but may require a >> bit >> of scripting. In short, you need support from a Bacula specialist, and we >> don't do that on this list (bacula-devel). > > Fair enough. I asked for suggested approaches on -users a few weeks ago > but didn't get much back. Perhaps we need to put our hands in our pockets > :-) > >> What you are asking for is a bit specialized, so I doubt that it is >> something >> that would be directly implemented in Bacula, unless we saw that it was >> something a lot of users want, which means it would need to be a very >> clearly >> defined Feature Request, voted on, then someone would need to volunteer to >> write it.
I wasn't subscribed a few weeks ago which should explain my lack of reaction :-) I'm missing three features in Bacula: 1. the ability to have long term snapshot; 2. the ability to backup file differential (rsync type); 3. the ability to include/exclude file based on arbitrary metadata criterium e.g. filesize. Point 3 can be addressed by overloading the use of the nodump flag, but it's a hack (for which I don't see too much drawback at first). Point 2 is very handy when facing application like Mozilla Thunderbird which stores email in a mbox file. Point 1 is also obviously needed when you want to have months or years of retention with a limited amount of storage. My understanding of the whole is that the needs I have are more or less dictated by my use of disk based media when facing a few hundred clients to backup. The client being numerous are considered "wild" so I need a way to enforce my policy (point 3). Unfortunately (or fortunately) Bacula is the only game in town if you want to have a sql backend which is quite more sane than using/abusing the filesystem. So I'd like to end what I've to admit is a rant by forcefully approving the request made by Gavin. Nicolas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
