Soren Hansen wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to request Amazon S3 integration in Bacula. I can imagine two > approaches. Note that I'm not very familiar with the Bacula code base at > all, so either approach (or both) might prove to be unsuitable. > > One way to achieve this is would be to add a new backend to the storage > daemon: Add options to specify your access identifies and the name of an > S3 bucket which is expected to be used exclusively for this purpose. > > Another, more general approach would be to add a sort of "shell" backend > to the storage daemon: Simply add an "exec" or "cmd" option, which > denoted an external command that would provide an interface between > bacula and some kind of storage backend. It would accept subcommands > corresponding to the storage backend API (if such a thing exists). > > As outlined on Bacula's homepage, here's the feature request in the > formal format. > > Item 1: Implement an interface between Bacula and Amazon's S3. > Date: 25 August 2008 > Origin: Soren Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status: Not started. > What: Enable the storage daemon to store backup data on Amazon's > S3 service. > > Why: Amazon's S3 is a cheap way to store data off-site. Current > ways to integrate Bacula and S3 involve storing all the data > locally and syncing them to S3, and manually fetching them > again when they're needed. This is very cumbersome.
To maintain system independence, would not a better way be: create a SCSI interface to Amazon S3 This would allow Amazon S3 to be used with more than Bacula without any changes to Bacula. -- 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 Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
