Limitations

The following article presents limitations of HDFS Plugin.

• The HDFS plugin requires snapshot enabled in the HDFS file system, available from Hadoop 3.3.1. If you cannot enable snapshot, please use fuse and mount the HDFS locally on the system running the FD and the SD.

• The creation time of a file cannot be backed up.

• Empty directories and directory attributes cannot be backed up.

• Bacula’s Accurate backup mode is not supported. You will receive a warning message if it is applied.

• The current implementation of the plugin cannot backup ACL and Extended Attributes.

• The restart command has limitations with plugins, as it initiates the Job from scratch rather than continuing it. Bacula determines whether a Job is restarted or continued, but using the restart command will result in a new Job.

See also

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