Using Azure as Storage

[Andreas Bøckmann]

Hello

I just started looking at BareOS. Is it possible, and if so, to use Azure as a storage device?

It would be awesome to be able to store the backup data in Azure but I could find little/none information about it.

Can someone point me in the right direction here?

Thanks!

[Matthew Hall]

I’ve no experience of doing the following with bareos specifically, but I have other storage related softwares.

Firstly, most obviously, you could run the SD in Azure (a B rated but stable VM would likely suffice), so you stream backups directly to “the cloud”.

Or using Microsoft’s blobfuse, you can customise a local cache size and have a background process push the data up when everything else is idle:

   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-how-to-mount-container-linux

(I’ve used both techniques with non-bareos scenarios, they worked and continue to work admirably.)

As far as I know there is no “native“ bareos storage plugin/extension for Azure.

On 20 May 2020, at 08:15, Andreas Bøckmann <monk...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Andreas Bøckmann]

Hello Mathew!

Thanks for the reply.

I thought there might be some BareOS magic as I found a libcloud plugin supporting e.g. Amazon S3 (though it seems to be unupdated for a while and progression stopped).

I will look into the blobfuse tip for sure. Looks like it uses HTTPS to transfer the data which is not optimal but might work.