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.
If a client is able to initiate a backup itself this is not an issue. At least NetWorker seems to be able to do this using its "save" command [1]. > 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. Although this is an important issue it is not of technical nature. > And maintaining binaries for all of the possible platforms might not be the > easiest thing :) Providing binaries for Windows, RHEL and SLES on x86 should cover most of the user base. > 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. Legal advice whether interoperability exceptions apply might be useful. > Best regards, > > Paul Tabashov [1] http://www.ipnom.com/Legato-NetWorker-Commands/save.html Regards, 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
