You know, asking them to add a Bacula FD plugin is a good idea! I'm sure it wouldn't be available for quite a while, but that is genuinely a good idea.
This is a commercial market NAS, aimed at videographers. The devs are actually pretty damn good, and I'm proud of them for choosing Gentoo. They have a bunch of software sitting on top of Gentoo aiming to provide fast access to stored media files for video editors. It does its job well, but backup is obviously our responsibility. They do integrate well with Storage DNA, but given that some of our goals included archiving media (that would not remain on the NAS), and given the boss's reaction to the storage DNA price point, we went with Bacula instead. I'm more comfortable using an open source highly configurable software solution. I'm not shit talking the storage DNA folks at all - they seemed pretty good and provided some useful information on tape hardware vendors (backupworks.com were very helpful as we built our hardware stack). Overall, I understand why they locked it down. Their target market uses apple computers for virtually everything, and a modified appliance may well break when they apply their updates. I would be pretty reluctant to modify the appliance even if given access, unless I had no other choice. It's designed and configured to do one thing and I don't know what they've done with their changes. Breaking the really expensive appliance isn't really on my to do list ;) (I wasn't involved in selecting the Evo appliance, and have been tasked with building infrastructure around it). The main data array is formatted XFS, by way of trivia for y'all. The core ethic is "get media go the end users as fast as possible so they can edit and render as fast as possible". Everything else is secondary. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 2:05 PM Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net> wrote: > On 9/23/23 13:34, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Heitor, > > > > Thank you for the reply. > > > > The backup source is a studio network solutions Evo NAS appliance. > > Unfortunately, I have no access to run bacula FD, nor most of other > > things suggested on this appliance as access is only via appliance > > developer designer means. I do not have any shell access to this > > appliance. Off the top of my head, I believe my only access options to > > this Evo NAS are smb (I believe 3.x), read only iSCSI, or afs (apple > > file sharing - obviously not something I want to try). This Evo NAS > > appliance is running Gentoo Linux. > > > Wait, it runs Gentoo and they locked it down that hard somehow? > > Gut feeling says you should be able to install almost anything you want > onto it, but it may be some work depending on how they locked it down. > (This would of course probably void your warranty.) > > That said, if you can't put a fd on it directly, given those options the > next best thing would probably be to mount it as an iSCSI target. > > You might also consider asking them if they would consider a Bacula-fd > package available. But my experience is that to NAS consumer-appliance > manufacturers, backup is at best an afterthought. I went through this > with a NAS appliance which QNAP proudly claimed ran Linux and ZFS, only > to find out that through idiotic choices and Byzantine design decisions > they had crippled it so badly it might as well have been running Windows. > > > > -- > Phil Stracchino > Babylon Communications > ph...@caerllewys.net > p...@co.ordinate.org > Landline: +1.603.293.8485 > Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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