On 02/08/2015 03:59 PM, John Naggets wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are running a Debian-only Linux-parc and would like to use Bareos to 
> replace our Bacula server but with GluserFS as storage.
> 
> Now I just read in the Bareos 14.2 release that Gluster API is only supported 
> on RHEL 7. Why only RHEL? and is there a change to see Gluster API support on 
> other Linux distributions such as Debian?

You are probably referring to http://www.bareos.org/en/whats_new.html
listing Gluster API (on RHEL 7) under Cloud Storage Backends.

That's mainly for packaging reasons, RHEL 7/CentOS 7 provide the packages
required to build and run with GlusterFS API, while Debian and Ubuntu don't.
It does not make much sense for the Bareos Community project to work on
packaging based on gluster.org packages, as there are too many different
versions and it is still rarely used.

However, this does not necesarily mean it would not work with Debian, it is
possible to download the Bareos source code from github and compile it yourself
on Debian with gluster storage backend enabled.
Configure will even find out what backends it can build given the packages you
have installed so there is no need to enable something specific. If people use
the same compile options as the Debian build system uses and they have either
CEPH or Gluster installed things will be build.

And in essence you only need the gluster storage plugin which should fit in the
pre-compiled packages (as long as you use the same version of Bareos of course).

About supported in the sense of professional/commercial support for GlusterFS:
As far as I know only Red Hat provides such support with is Red Hat
Storage product.

If interested in Bareos professional support please see http://www.bareos.com/

Regards
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