Hello,
I'm from OpenChange, the native-protocols Exchange replacement project
at http://openchange.org. Someone from Bacula was asking questions at an
OpenChange talk we gave in Cambridge this week, and in response we're
writing a backup tool that we think should meet your purposes -- either
to call as-is, or as a model so you can call our libraries yourselves.
Some quick definitions:
* MAPI Store. That's Microsoft Exchange. We have a prototype server
and after our client is released we'll be making sure that we are
also a MAPI store.
* MAPI Client. That's either OpenChange libmapi (and the commandline
client that ships with OpenChange, openchangeclient), Outlook, or
some of the third-party groupware applications that use the same
Microsoft MAPI library as Outlook. libmapi works like Exchange.
* libmapipfadmin. Like libmapi, only it adds administrative
functions. It doesn't yet have things Bacula is likely to use but
very shortly it will be able to inspect ACLs.
* openchangemapidump and openchangemapirestore. These are the reason
I have written to this list! They don't exist, at least not in svn,
and we'd like your opinion on our implementation direction.
I have written a summary of MAPI issues from a backup implementor's
perspective at
http://wiki.openchange.org/index.php/OpenChangeForMAPIStoreBackup .
You'll find there details of commandline facilities proposed, and
clearly this will show you how to use libmapi to achive similar things
(only better, since you're backup experts.)
Feedback wanted! There's the openchange-devel mailing list, the wiki,
and irc. We want to push our backup client soon, but want to be sure the
design is approximately right as well.
Regards,
--
Dan Shearer
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