Hello Sebastian, There are several problems in interfacing Bacula to Oracle:
1. One is that the Oracle "APIs" are proprietary, which will probably require some license exception to interface to them. 2. Oracle apparently charges a good deal of money to be able to get access to these "APIs". We haven't yet looked at this in detail yet, so I may be wrong. Now that Bacula Systems is interested in an Oracle interface, the cost is probably manageable where as for the Bacula project it is not. 3. Oracle (actually RMAN) wants to be in control of everything, if you implement Backup/Restore the way Oracle recommends. This is in some senses a conflict with Bacula which wants to be in control of everything. I think there are plenty of ways to resolve the problems but until we have access to and understand the interfaces (APIs) as Eric has suggested, there is not a lot we can do. Perhaps you have such access, which would be interesting :-) Best regards, Kern On 08/25/2011 10:05 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > I am trying to estimate the effort required to create an Oracle MML which can > interact with Bacula. > Unfortunatelly i am unsure about its design: > > Backups are taken with RMAN and the MML has to connect to Bacula. According > to the "Projects" > file [1] client initiated backups aren't supported, so the MML has to connect > to the director. Once > connected it will have to run a job. The FD likely needs a plugin to interact > with the MML (data and > control path). > > How can the MML communicate its intentions to Bacula? It doesn't seem to fit > into a "job" approach. > > [1] http://www.bacula.org/git/cgit.cgi/bacula/tree/bacula/projects > > Sebastian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K > The only unified storage solution that offers unified management > Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. > Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
