Paul Tabashov wrote: > We have looked at this some time ago and actually had received form Oracle > the specs for the APIs, but as Kern pointed > out, there are several issues with integrating Bacula with RMAN:
1. As Kern said below, RMAN wants to initiate the backups and drive them for that matter, "talking" to media manager through a dynamic library that media manager has to provide. This goes against the architecture of Bacula where client is not able to initiate the backup. I guess there might be some workarounds like the backup will be initated by Director, which I turn will contact the client and it will actually run RMAN. I actually think that some or event most other backup products that have RMAN plugins do it that way. 2. Licensing/distribution . Since Oracle's stuff is proprietary it will not be possible to distribute the source code for the "Oracle plugin" or at least not the code for libobk.so that will need to be there. This means that only the binaries can be distributed and again I am not sure if there will be any problem using a closed source binary with Bacula from the licensing perspective. And maintaining binaries for all of the possible platforms might not be the easiest thing :) Generally I want to say that our company is very much interested in getting this off the ground and implemented and we are open to providing different kind of support to this - from financial to being involved in talks with Oracle as well providing resources for testing the plugin once it is developed. We do use Bacula for ourselves as well as a number of clients where Oracle needs to be backed up and it would be great to have an Oracle plugin. Best regards, Paul Tabashov Pontis Corporation Chief Technology Officer p. 416-925-7871 f. 416-946-1923 http://www.pontis.biz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
