> Hey guys,
Hey Tim,
> I was really excited when I upgraded my bacula server to CentOS 7 and
> installed
> the latest version of s3fs. Because I found that I was able to mount an s3
> bucket to my local file system with the right user id and permissions to use
> with bacula.
> My old server was a centos 5.9 host and that version of s3fs wouldn't allow
> you
> to set the uid/gid for the directory you're mounting to.
> And what I've found is that backing up to S3 with these latest versions works
> GREAT!! I am able to create tapes on my S3 mounted backup directory. And the
> backups complete without any complaint from the bacula system.
> However the problem comes in restoring files. Because what I've found is that
> the restores will fail even if you are restoring just one tiny file. I tried
> restoring a resolv.conf file.
> What happens is that the s3fs directory disconnects from s3 and bacula gives a
> 'waiting for mount request' that seems to go on forever.
s3fs takes a time to sync, uses cache and as any mapping protocol has
performance limitation. I think you can debug it with -d and -f flag (not sure
though).
> If I do a listing of the directory at this point, on the command line outside
> the bacula environment I get a 'transport disconnected' error. I'm not sure
> why
> backing up to S3 is fine but restoring is not.
> What I'd like to know is if there are any other alternatives to S3FS out there
> that would allow you to mount an S3 bucket on your local file systems and use
> it for backups and restores.
Yes. I would hire a EC2 Linux machine to deploy a remote Bacula storage daemon.
You can still use your S3 bucket as Archive Device.
> Also I'm wondering if there's any optimizations or changes that anyone may
> know
> about that I can do to S3FS to allow this to work?
> Thanks,
> Tim
Cheers,
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