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Is NAUbackup compatible with XCP-ng? #89

Closed blu-IT closed 5 years ago

blu-IT commented 5 years ago

Hello,

is somebody here who has experience with NAUbackup script an the rocking XCP-ng v.7.6 ( https://xcp-ng.org/ )? There will also be a new compression in the future https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2018/12/19/zstd-compression-for-xcp-ng/ and I would like to know if somebody here has already used NAUbackup with XCP.

Thanks!

Regards

NAUbackup commented 5 years ago

It partly depends on what pieces you're talking about. The XVA export format is pretty universal, for example, as should in principle be the metadata. For VMs, I'd guess probably, but this is probably a good question to post on the xcp-ng forum. As to other compression algorithms, we are of course waiting to see what Citrix will ultimately support directly on XenServer. Various utilities, such as zstd, pigz, and lz4 can be easily installed on XS and made use of, but this of course breaks any official Citrix support conditions.

lancefogle commented 5 years ago

@blu-IT XCP-ng uses XAPI and the CLI for it (xe) underneath just like XenServer so there is no difference at all when it comes to the methods used by NAUBackup. Even the new compression that is being added to XAPI (and XCP-ng) is being added in a backwards compatible manner so it doesn't break anything in this script nor OnyxBackupVM

blu-IT commented 5 years ago

Hi, thanks for your feedback!

I will try and report my experience with that ;-)