[Gluster-devel] Backup support for GlusterFS

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 05:40:53PM +0530, Aravinda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to implement backup support for GlusterFS. Many Network backup
> utilities like Bacula(open source), Amanda(open source), Symantec NetBackup
> support NDMP(http://www.ndmp.org/). Comparison is available here
> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=comparisons
> 
> Plan is to create glusterfs-ndmp-server, which utilizes glusterfs changelogs
> to detect changes for incremental backup. Design is not yet finalized,
> Comments & Suggestions Welcome.
> 
> Looks like a project(https://forge.gluster.org/ndmp-server) in forge.gluster
> is discontinued.
> 
> PS: NDMP support is not available in Open Source editions of Bacula and
> Amanda, but available in Enterprise Editions.

Bareos (www.bareos.org) a full Open Source fork of Bacula seems to
support NDMP:
- https://github.com/bareos/bareos/blob/master/README.NDMP
- http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#x1-12800010.3

I think Bareos has already support to backup to a Gluster Volume.

From my understanding you are proposing a feature that integrates a
(async/changelog) NDMP-client in the Gluster xlator stack that writes to
a NDMP-server?

HTH,
Niels

> 
> References:
> -----------
> 1. NDMP support in NetBackup
> http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC6456
> 2. NDMP Presentation
> http://www.ndmp.org/download/sdk_v4/ndmp-overview-r2.ppt
> 3. NDMP website http://www.ndmp.org/
> 4. Bacula and Amanda website http://bacula.org/ and http://www.amanda.org/
> 
> --
> regards
> Aravinda
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