Features

Enterprise

Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For subscription inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

The HDFS Plugin provides the following capabilities:

General Features

• Backup of HDFS data using snapshot-based enumeration

• Full, incremental, and differential backup levels

• Restore back into HDFS or into a local filesystem

• Listing and query support for snapshottable directories and snapshots

• Optional local filesystem mode for non-HDFS workflows and tests

• Simple authentication and Kerberos authentication

• Optional loading of Hadoop XML resources such as core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml to support complex authentication scenarios

Backup Features

• Snapshot creation on the configured base snapshot directory

• Snapshot diff processing for incremental and differential jobs

• Glob and regular-expression include or exclude filters

• Snapshot retention controlled by the keep_snapshot setting

• Multi-threaded file fetch and stream publication pipeline

Restore Features

• Restore to the original HDFS location

• Restore to a local destination through the Bacula where parameter

Operational Features

• List snapshottable directories

• Query snapshot inventories

• Optional pretty-printed JSON query output

• Adjustable concurrency and queue sizing for large jobs

See also

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