Soren Hansen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:56:34AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >> To maintain system independence, would not a better way be: >> >> create a SCSI interface to Amazon S3 > > How does requiring operating system support improve system independence?
Bacula already requires OS support. It relies heavily upon SCSI interfaces. These interfaces are not designed specifically for Bacula. They are available to all comers. At present, Bacula knows about tape, via SCSI. In general, it does not care if that tape drive is DLT or DAT (for example). Both devices are accessed through the SCSI interface. This is why Bacula does not directly access any tape device. It uses the SCSI interface. By relying upon the SCSI interface, Bacula is more independent. A SCSI interface to Amazon S3 may not be the only answer to this. It might also be possible with plugins, a relatively new feature in Bacula. But I suspect that plugin is for sources only (i.e. bacula-fd) not for sinks (bacula-sd). Hopefully, someone else knows. Someone else mentioned: fuse plugin. this looks promising: http://code.google.com/p/s3fs-fuse/ it's obviously linux specific, but should be pretty trivial to set up with bacula Kern also has an idea. See his recent post. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
